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.
Submissions can be filtered by the following categories:
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…
Aug 2007
Families Australia supports measures to ensure that benefits are delivered in an efficient and effective way to those who should receive them. The introduction of a new and complex system such as this needs to be carefully considered, to be informed by comprehensive public consultation and to be planned and implemented transpare…
Mar 2007
The lives of multitudes of Australians and their families have been, and are today, being ruined by illicit and licit substance abuse.
The exact costs of the problems are unquantifiable but are undoubtedly massive in personal, social and economic terms. Families themselves bear enormous cost and pain.