Publications

We call for reform to coercive control laws, and for the NSW Government to create frameworks and targets for reform. We highlight common issues, such as misidentification, discrimination and incident-based policing.

We call for the Second Action Plan to prioritise the needs of First Nations women, to embed measurable targets and accountability mechanisms, and to include meaningful legal system reform. We advocate for reform in relation to each of our priority campaign areas.

We make recommendations about how stronger enforcement and the development of accessible pathways to entitlement recovery could improve access to justice for our clients.

We call for accountability and the immediate implementation of First Nations led solutions to dismantling structural racism.

We called for reforms that would give superannuation funds discretion to prevent perpetrators of domestic and family violence from accessing the death benefit of their victim.

We welcomed the review as an opportunity to address the unintended consequences of the new laws that prevent women from accessing entitlements including paid domestic and family violence leave, flexible working conditions and the right to disconnect.

We advocated for increased protections for working women and a more inclusive and gender equitable safety net of employment rights.

We called for an evaluation of how the ‘affirmative consent’ reforms are operating in practice and implementation of measures to protect the rights and dignity of victim-survivors during the criminal process.

We made a submission to the Attorney-General’s Department on the Review of the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (Cth). We advocated for updated protections and better systems to prevent discrimination towards people with disabilities.

We advocated for stronger and modernised anti-discrimination protections for women in NSW.

We raised additional concerns about how the proposed changes might inadvertently roll back efforts to prevent sexual harassment and violence in the workplace.

We explained how the proposed changes to claims for psychological injury in the workplace would disproportionately impact working women.

We made a submission to the Department of Communities and Justice, calling for legislative improvements and greater consideration of coercive control in ADVO processes.

We advocated for a series of reforms to improve the criminal legal response to victim-survivors of sexual violence.