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:
Nov 2012
Families Australia considers that the Royal Commission should:
Define ‘child abuse’ as broadly as possible. The prime focus should be on child sexual abuse, but should also take into account other forms of abuse perpetrated, and currently being perpetrated, against children, including psychological, emotional and physical ab…
Nov 2012
We welcome the review and hope that the coming year will be used for a thorough process of consultation, especially taking the program back to an examination of family needs first rather than being shaped around existing service models.
Feb 2012
Download the National Coalition’s proposals to Commonwealth, State and Territory Governments for the second three-year action plan (2012-2015) under the National Framework for Protecting Australia’s Children 2009, From Crisis Response to Prevention.
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.
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