When women experience family, domestic and sexual violence, about a third reach out for advice and support from their doctor or another health professional. So how can we better equip the health system to respond to violence against women and children?
Our Policy & Advocacy Lead Dr Joyce Chia is in the Power to Persuade blog today analysing the potential of health justice partnerships to strengthen the health system’s capacity for responding to violence.
Between August and September 2026, the Australian Government consulted on the development of the Second National Action Plan and Second Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Action Plan under Safe and Supported: The National Framework for Protecting Australia’s Children 2021-2031. The consultation sought feedback on the proposed priorities, validating what has been heard, and identifying any remaining evidence gaps.
Our submission to the VLRC Inquiry into legal privilege and integrated legal services highlights how legal privilege can create challenges for collaborative, patient/client-centred, trauma-informed service delivery and explores opportunities for, and potential consequences of, reform.
HJA’s submission on the Second Action Plan explains how the evidence and practice-based insights from HJP informed our’s practical recommendations for strengthening integrated responses to DFSV.
As part of the monitoring and evaluation learning materials, we put together a list of resources that we recommend for any practitioner working on measurement and evaluation. These guides offer a curated suite of resources covering medical research ethics, cultural safety and trauma-informed practice.
But in all the talk of budgets, workforce participation, and technological innovation, one critical ingredient is often missing: people’s wellbeing. Here’s our submission to the Economic Reform Roundtable.
Our submission to the VLRC Inquiry into legal privilege and integrated legal services highlights how legal privilege can create challenges for collaborative, patient/client-centred, trauma-informed service delivery and explores opportunities for, and potential consequences of, reform.