Submissions to Inquiries

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.

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Families Australia: submission to the Environment and Communications Legislation Committee on the Enhancing Online Safety for Children Bill 2014 and Enhancing Online Safety for Children (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2014

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…

Families Australia: submission to the Senate Community Affairs References Committee Inquiry into out of home care

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…

Families Australia: submission to the Senate Finance and Public Administration Committees’ Inquiry into Domestic Violence in Australia

Oct 2014

Domestic violence is a major issue in Australian society covering a wide range of government policy areas and service systems, including health, mental health, housing, income support, child protection, education, and family support.

Families Australia: submission to the Reference Group on Welfare Reform to the Minister of Social Services in response to the Interim Report ‘A New System for Better Employment and Social Outcomes’

Aug 2014

Families Australia appreciates the opportunity to comment on the Interim Report of the Reference Group on Welfare Reform to the Minister for Social Services.

Families Australia: submission to the National Commission of Audit

Nov 2013

Over the past decade, all Federal Governments have played a strong leadership role in efforts to tackle Australia’s current appalling rates of child abuse and neglect. In the mid-2000s, the Federal Government responded to Senate reports on child protection and children’s institutions (three reports were issued between 2004 a…

Families Australia: submission to the Royal Commission into Institutional responses to Child Sexual Abuse of Issues Paper three regarding Child Safe Institutions

Nov 2013

We argue four propositions: first, a comprehensive nationally-consistent approach to child safe organisations should be fully implemented at the earliest possible time; second, such an approach should include a rigorous accountability and monitoring regime; third, adequate supports should be provided to organisations in developi…

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