Released 17 October 2022

The National Plan is the overarching national policy framework that will guide actions towards ending violence against women and children over the next 10 years in Australia.

It highlights how all parts of society, including governments, businesses and workplaces, media, schools and educational institutions, the family, domestic and sexual violence sector, communities and all individuals, must work together to achieve the shared vision of ending gender-based violence in one generation.

The National Plan sets out actions across four domains:

Prevention – working to change the underlying social drivers of violence by addressing the attitudes and systems that drive violence against women and children to stop it before it starts.
Early intervention – identifying and supporting individuals who are at high risk of experiencing or perpetrating violence and prevent it from reoccurring.
Response – providing services and supports to address existing violence and support victim-survivors experiencing violence, such as crisis support and police intervention, and a trauma-informed justice system that will hold people who use violence to account.
Recovery and healing – helping to reduce the risk of re-traumatisation, and supporting victim-survivors to be safe and healthy to be able to recover from trauma and the physical, mental, emotional, and economic impacts of violence.

Clear actions to implement the National Plan will be outlined in two underpinning 5-year Action Plans and a dedicated Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Action Plan, that will detail the Commonwealth, state and territory government investment and efforts towards implementation.

Development of the Action Plans is underway, with the first five-year Action Plan expected to be released in early 2023.

The Australian Government has also committed to developing a future standalone First Nations National Plan to address the unacceptably high rates of violence Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and children experience.

The first 10 year National Plan, along with 4 Action Plans was released in 2011 (#3608). Record #7883