Families Australia regularly provides submissions on family-related topics. Most submissions are in response to Australian Government and Parliamentary inquiries and consultations. At times, 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:
Dec 2011
Download the National Coalition’s Position Paper, A National Commissioner for Australia’s Children: The Role, Powers and Functions of the Office of the National Children’s Commissioner, Australia.
Dec 2010
Families Australia welcomes the introduction of the Commonwealth Commissioner for Children and Young People Bill 2010 and wishes to provide the Senate Legal and Constitutional Committee with 24 general and specific recommendations in relation to it (please see Attachment A for a summary).
Nov 2010
Families Australia strongly believes that there should be:
A substantial increase in resources devoted to the National Framework for Protecting Australia’s Children 2009-2020. We propose that an additional $120 million be provided over four years especially to support targeted family and child related services.
Growth in …
Sep 2008
Families Australia supports, in principle, the development of a Compact. Our support is contingent on the stated intention of the Commonwealth Government being realised, that is, that a Compact will better define the relationship between the Commonwealth Government and the not-for-profit sector and will enable both sectors to do…
Jul 2008
Carers play a vital and usually hidden role in supporting families and individuals. Their work provides a major underpinning of Australia’s prosperity, but they need greater acknowledgement and support.
Jun 2008
Problem gambling is highly toxic to the wellbeing of individuals and families. Given the extraordinarily high correlation between poker machine usage and problem gambling, it is vitally important that poker machines be removed completely from clubs and other gaming venues as soon as possible.