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How ANROWS will contribute to the Second Action Plan consultation process

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Violence against women and children remains one of Australia’s most significant and complex challenges. Its impacts are profound, enduring and far-reaching, and they are not experienced equally. Ending this violence requires sustained national effort, coordinated action and a shared commitment to measurable change.

The consultation process for the Second Action Plan under the National Plan to End Violence against Women and Children 2022–2032 is an important opportunity to strengthen implementation, improve coordination across systems and focus national effort where it can have the greatest impact.

ANROWS is proud to support this consultation process. Our role is to generate evidence and support its effective use to drive action and change. That means connecting research, policy, practice and lived expertise to strengthen decision-making across prevention, early intervention, response, recovery and healing.

Evidence is a tool for hope.

It helps us move beyond assumptions, respond to complexity and remain accountable for progress. It shows where change is occurring, where outcomes remain uneven and where Australia is not yet achieving the change needed to improve safety for women and children.

The consultation process is central to this work. Ending violence requires us to ask difficult questions, listen carefully to the experiences and expertise of people across Australia, and remain responsive to emerging evidence and changing conditions.

ANROWS’ contribution will be grounded in our commitment to rigorous research, collaboration, practice-led evidence and system accountability. We recognise that evidence does not sit in research alone. It is held by victim-survivors, practitioners, services, Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations, specialist workforces and those in universal services, communities and policymakers working every day to prevent violence, respond to harm and support recovery.

The next phase of national action must continue to build on what has come before. Australia has developed a large and growing body of evidence about violence against women and children, including what is working, where progress is being made and where gaps remain. The task now is to use that evidence to accelerate progress, ensure its benefits are more equitably experienced and sustain its impact over time.

As part of this consultation process, ANROWS will continue to support evidence-informed discussion about the issues and evidence that can inform the next phase of national action.

This includes the needs of victim-survivors, prevention and early intervention, children and young people in their own right, people who use violence, and the system integration and workforce capability needed to support safe, effective and accountable responses.

Across all of these areas, First Nations leadership, practitioner-led evidence and community expertise are critical. Policy and practice must be culturally safe, accessible and responsive to the diverse experiences of people and communities across Australia.

Turning evidence into action, and action into sustained systems change, is essential if we are to realise the vision of ending violence in a generation.

ANROWS looks forward to supporting the consultation process and working with governments, services, researchers, practitioners, communities and people with lived experience to help inform the next phase of national action.

 

 

Read the consultation paper

Read Evidence to action: informing direction for the Second Action Plan to explore evidence-informed priorities for the next phase of national action.

Read the paper

 

Have your say

Contribute to the Second Action Plan consultation and help shape the direction of the Second Action Plan. DSS is seeking input from people with lived experience, frontline workers, peak bodies, policy experts, academics, employers and the broader community.

Consultation on the Second Action Plan

 

Media contact:

Emmagness Ruzvidzo,
Media and Communications Manager, ANROWS
E: Emmagness.Ruzvidzo@anrows.org.au
M: 0468 322 800

About ANROWS

Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety (ANROWS) was established by the Commonwealth, state and territory governments under Australia’s first National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children (2010–2022). As an ongoing partner to the National Plan, ANROWS continues to build, strengthen and translate the evidence base that informs the current National Plan to End Violence against Women and Children (2022–2032).

With more than 150 research projects led, commissioned or contributed to, ANROWS delivers targeted evidence to inform practice, policy, and systems reform. We engage closely with victim-survivors, communities, service providers, governments and researchers to ensure our work reflects lived experience and supports collective action.

ANROWS is a not-for-profit company jointly funded by the Commonwealth and all state and territory governments. We are a registered harm prevention charity and deductible gift recipient, governed by the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC).