Media Releases
1800RESPECT garbage truck to spread awareness for support services
1800RESPECT – Australia’s national domestic, family, and sexual violence counselling and support service – has partnered with Blacktown City Council in NSW, in an innovative initiative where garbage trucks are used to promote social change.
More Safe Places for women and children fleeing violence in Brisbane
The Albanese Labor Government continues to deliver on its commitment to increase the number of new and fit for purpose Safe Places for women and children experiencing family and domestic violence, with the opening of a new completed site in Brisbane today.
Telstra payphones to connect more Australians to national support services
The Albanese Government is working with Telstra to boost awareness of national support available to people in need, with information on six major services to be displayed in artwork on Telstra payphones across Australia.
New workers to bolster Tasmania’s support for victim-survivors of family, domestic, and sexual violence
The Albanese Labor Government is delivering more frontline workers for community sector organisations to support victim-survivors of family, domestic, and sexual violence across Tasmania.
New frontline service and community workers for Western Australia
The Albanese and Cook Labor Governments are partnering to boost the number of frontline and community sector workers to help victim-survivors of family, domestic, and sexual violence in times of need.
Supporting young men to break cycles of family violence
First Nations boys and men aged 10 to 25 will be supported with an expanded specialist family violence hotline as the latest investment in a rollout of various trial programs across Australia targeted towards innovative perpetrator responses.
Direct financial help available for those fleeing violence
The Albanese Labor Government is committed to breaking down financial barriers for those escaping domestic violence, through close collaboration with the community sector.
New Family and Domestic Violence Initiative to Strengthen Earlier Perpetrator Intervention
Expressions of interest have opened to trial a new initiative to strengthen earlier intervention and hold perpetrators of family and domestic violence to account.
Innovative perpetrator intervention to stop the cycle of violence
The Albanese Labor Government will provide more than $3.1 million over four years to the Tasmanian Government to deliver two trial programs aiming to break the cycle of violence against women and children through new programs focused on perpetrator behaviour.
New sector guide key to primary prevention
The Albanese Labor Government will today highlight the role of faith communities in preventing family, domestic, and sexual violence (FDSV) at the launch of the Saving Faith and Cultural Empowerment (FACE) Sector Guide.
Seeking Expressions of Interest to join a national Lived Experience Advisory Council amplifying the voices of people with lived experience of domestic, family and sexual violence at a national level
The Australian Government is seeking Expressions of Interest from people with lived or living experience of domestic, family and sexual violence to appoint up to twelve members to a national Lived Experience Advisory Council (the Advisory Council). Expressions of Interest are live and will remain open until 11:59pm AEST Friday 29 September 2023.
Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Commission to facilitate conversation on measuring the impact of the National Plan to End Violence Against Women and Children 2022-2032
The Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Commission, in partnership with ANROWS, will today convene the first in a series of roundtables bringing together experts from across the country to advance the goal of ending violence against women and children in one generation.
Groundbreaking survey to strengthen the understanding of sexual violence prevention in LGBTIQA+ communities
The Albanese Labor Government is commissioning a world-first survey into LGBTIQA+ people’s experiences of sexual violence and sexual harassment, in partnership with the University of New South Wales (UNSW).
Open access to evidence on family, domestic and sexual violence
From today, anyone around the world will be able to access an Australian-led data initiative aimed at reducing the rates of family, domestic and sexual violence
Australia says No to Violence against women and children
The Albanese Government has highlighted its commitment to ending violence against women and children, by encouraging men and boys to champion behaviour change at the 2023 No to Violence Conference in Melbourne.
Building the workforce for family, domestic, and sexual violence support services
The Albanese Labor Government is delivering on its commitment to increase frontline and community sector jobs for family, domestic and sexual violence support services, with funding to support the first tranche of workers now flowing to all states and territories.
New support for family, domestic and sexual violence survivors
The Albanese Labor Government is investing in new ways to support victim-survivors of family, domestic and sexual violence.
New Action Plans include concrete steps and targets to end gender-based violence
All Australian governments have agreed to concrete actions and measurable targets to end gender-based violence within a generation with the release of two Action Plans under the National Plan to End Violence against Women and Children 2022-2032.
Vital funding to support prevention and responses to domestic and family violence
A project by Women’s Health NSW to raise awareness of a non-fatal strangulation (NFS) in sexual and domestic violence cases as a precursor to escalating violence or homicide has received over $870,000 in NSW Government funding.
All workers now entitled to family and domestic violence leave
Small business employees will have a new right to ten days of paid family and domestic violence leave under the Albanese Labor Government’s changes that take effect from today.