Anne Ruston (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Families and Social Services) Share this | Hansard source

We have embarked, over the last 18 months through the COVID pandemic, on a multilayered consultation approach to ensure all Australians have the opportunity to participate and be involved in ending violence against women and their children—in fact, ending gender based violence across Australia.

There was an inquiry conducted by the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs which received over 300 submissions into their inquiry. We have conducted two public surveys, workshops and interviews with stakeholders and established the National Plan Advisory Group as well as the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander advisory group. The National Summit on Women's Safety brought together—as a culmination all of these forms of consultation—representatives of over 200 organisations so that they could take part in the discussions to inform the next national plan. Most importantly, victims-survivors were invited to participate in this because their voices must be front and centre of the next national plan.