Ahead of the National Summit on Women’s Safety, SBS News hears from experts, advocates and survivors on what they believe the new plan needs to include to have meaningful impact.
Content warning: This article contains reference to domestic violence and sexual assault.
She said there has also been a cultural shift in how gendered violence and equality is viewed, from an issue that solely concerned women, to one that is everybody’s business.“That's a big achievement. It's not showing a change in the data yet, but we've got a whole lot more people who are interested in this conversation now,” she said.
“We need to promote normalised gender equality, in all the places we spend our time - at work, in sport, in the home, in media - and we need governments taking a gendered lens to all of their policy development,” she said.“So, we absolutely need men in leadership roles to be driving change. We need men as fathers to be setting examples. We need men in relationships to be setting healthy relationship examples.
“I'm just hoping that this summit is not just going to be another talkfest where the government feels like they're getting the consultation, getting the people together, but not doing it in a way that's going to really affect change,” she said. Ms Mullins said there also needs to be a greater focus put on sexual violence and listening to the stories of survivors from diverse communities.These survivors of domestic and sexual violence say they’ve been excluded from the National Action Plan
“I think we need to be bold, and I think we really need to pin down really fundamental things that we can't go without any longer,” she said. Ms Morris said the backgrounds of the more than 1,600 women that the Victorian organisation helped last year directly reflect Australia’s migration program.
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