Minister for Finance
Minister for Women
Minister for Public Service
Minister for Government Services
Senator the Hon Katy Gallagher
Attorney-General
The Hon Michelle Rowland MP
Minister for Social Services
The Hon Tanya Plibersek MP
Assistant Minister for Social Services
Assistant Minister for the Prevention of Family Violence
The Hon Ged Kearney MP
Joint Media Release
The Albanese Labor Government is today launching a major consultation to shape the next phase of the National Plan to End Violence Against Women and Children 2022-2032.
Since coming to Government, we've invested over $4.4 billion to take action to end family, domestic and sexual violence. This includes funding for 1,400 organisations that has directly helped around 450,000 people across Australia experiencing violence.
We are seeing good progress, but too many lives are still being taken, and too many people continue to live with violence every day.
Today, we're opening consultation to help us develop the Second Action Plan to guide our collective efforts over the next five years.
The focus of the Second Action Plan will be on what works to deliver practical and systemic solutions that have the greatest impact, and the Government is committed to working with experts, stakeholders, victim-survivors and communities as we develop the next plan.
To help make it easier for hardworking frontline services and in recognition of people's experience of different forms of violence, we will be simultaneously consulting on the related action plans for:
- Our Ways - Strong Ways - Our Voices - Australia's first dedicated plan to end violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and children,
- Safe and Supported - the ten-year framework for protecting Australia's children, and
- the National Strategy to Prevent and Respond to Child Sexual Abuse.
We are designing these action plans to work together because we know people affected by violence often deal with many of these interconnected issues at the same time and people's lives do not fit neatly into plans or systems.
Everyone is encouraged to have their say. We want to hear from a wide range of people across the community, including academics and experts, frontline workers, employers, community members, victim-survivors and children and young people.
