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:
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.
Jun 2008
Families Australia makes the following submission to the Australian Government Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs in respect of the discussion paper Australia’s children: safe and well. A national framework for protecting Australia’s children
May 2008
Families Australia urges the Productivity Commission to consider parental leave as one component of a continuum of supports needed to allow both parents in working families to combine work and family responsibilities.
Feb 2008
Families Australia is the national, independent, peak organisation promoting the interests of families. Families Australia’s submission focuses on two aspects of child protection and the role of the NSW Government through the Department of Community Services (DoCS)
Nov 2007
Child protection
Families Australia calls for the establishment of a National Child Protection Strategy that guides policy, practice and research must be developed. An Australian Government Minister for Children and Young People and an independent Federal Commissioner for Children should be appointed.
To ensure that universal se…