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Our vision

A safe and supportive community, where domestic, family and sexual violence is not tolerated in any form.

Three pillars of response

1. Primary prevention

Short-term actions (within one year)

• Reframed violence against women collaborations
• Employment and leadership strategy.

Medium-term actions (within one-to-two years)

• Develop a primary prevention toolkit for local government
• Expand Women's Information Service children's centre program
• Ensure government funding supports respectful representations of women and domestic violence policies.

Long-term actions (within three-to-four years)

• Working with business.

2. Services and support

Short-term actions (within one year)

• Pets.

Medium-term actions (within one-to-two years)

• Early intervention in community settings
• Perpetrator referral pathway into the Family Safety Framework and responses to children and young people
• Risk assessment tool
• Safety hubs
• Interest-free loans
• 24/7 domestic violence crisis line
• Crisis accommodation
• Perpetrator interventions
• Safety-first response
• Domestic violence packages
• National tenancy research
• Child protection and domestic violence interface.

Long-term actions (within three-to-four years)

• Data
• Affordable housing pathways
• Improved system pathways
• Awareness-raising for health and education professionals in recognising domestic and family violence
• Sexual harassment in licenced industries
• Workforce.

3. Justice

Short-term actions (within one year)

• Reducing re-offending
• Awareness-raising campaign.

Medium-term actions (within one-to-two years)

• Family court and risk assessment guidelines
• Mandated perpetrator programs and accommodation expansion
• Review of systemic responses to domestic, family and sexual violence.

Long-term actions (within three-to-four years)

• Lower risk threshold for the family safety framework.

Enablers

• Data and evidence base
• Monitoring our impact and evaluation.