Families Australia regularly provides submissions on family-related topics. Most submissions are in response to Australian Government and Parliamentary inquiries and consultations. Families Australia also makes submissions to inquiries conducted at State or Territory government level.
Recent submissions can be viewed below.
In addition, Families Australia assisted the Alliance for Forgotten Australians (AFA) to prepare submissions to a range of inquiries between 2007 and 2015. These can be accessed on the AFA website.
Submissions can be filtered by the following categories:
Jun 2015
Families Australia’s standing in relation to the ACT Government’s review of its human rights framework is grounded in its work to design, promote and implement the National Framework for Protecting Australia’s Children 2009-2020 (the ‘National Framework’)—Australia’s first-ever national policy aimed at making a sus…
Jun 2015
Children, regardless of age, are always affected if they live in an environment of anger, violence and fear. Family and domestic violence often results in break-up of the family unit and separation of children from other family members, their friends and familiar surroundings.
Apr 2015
This paper contains recommendations by Families Australia and the Steering Group of the Coalition of Organisations Committed to the Safety and Wellbeing of Australia’s Children (the ‘NGO Coalition’) to assist discussions about the development of the Third Action Plan (2015-18) under the National Framework for Protecting Au…
Feb 2015
Families Australia acknowledges the current National Disability Insurance Scheme consultation process on the Proposal for a National Disability Insurance Scheme Quality and Safeguarding framework. We strongly support the development of this framework.
Jan 2015
Cyber (Online) safety for children has been an ongoing focus of the National Framework with the Second Three-Year Action Plan, 2012-2015[1] including an action to develop and trial programs to prevent sexual abuse and keep children safe, including specific programs for remote Indigenous communities, such as the cyber smart outre…
Nov 2014
This submission focuses on a number of key areas for consideration in relation to the Inquiry’s Terms of Reference. Key to our submission is the need for continued joint commitment by the Australian, State and Territory Governments with the community and academia to further implementation of the National Framework for Protect…