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.

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Families Australia: 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

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

Families Australia: submission to the Productivity Commission Inquiry into paid maternity, paternity and parental leave

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.

Families Australia: submission to the Special Commission of Inquiry into child protection services in NSW

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)

2007 Federal election proposals

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…

Families Australia: submission to the Australian Government on the Health Benefits, Veterans’ and Social Services Access Card

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…

Families Australia: submission to the Inquiry by the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Family and Human Services on the impact of illicit drugs on families

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.

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