Tim Wilson (Goldstein, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Congratulations to Family Life, on receiving the gold award in the Australian Crime and Violence Prevention Awards this morning for their Together We Can campaign. The campaign is a comprehensive project bringing together community organisations to reduce family violence. It has led to a 23 per cent reduction in reported incidents of family violence across south-east Melbourne. The campaign has been steered by a Family Life, a local Sandringham based family service provider that is changing the lives of vulnerable families, children and young Australians. This morning, the award was received by Jo Cavanagh OAM, who has led Family Life for over 22 years and is rightly acknowledged for her contribution and service to our great country. She was joined by Carol Jeffs, Tom Nairn, Julie Nairn and Stephen Sparrow. The campaign was also stewarded by Allison Wainwright, the deputy CEO of Family Life; Ally Madden, a community team leader; Liz Weaver, from the Tamarack Institute; David Rose, from The University of Melbourne; Stephen Sparrow at Cardinia shire; and Victoria Police. Congratulations to the Together We Can team. We are proud of your work and what you are doing to reduce family violence in our community. You are great citizens, and if more of the country will like you we would be a better nation.