Today I was privileged to be in attendance at Minister Tanya Plibersek’s first consultation roundtable to inform the Second Action Plan under the National Plan to End Violence against Women and Children 2022-2032. This session brought together national peaks, national organisations, representatives from national reviews and Commissioners. The formal consultation period opened on 22 May 2026 and will run through until 31 July 2026. You can read more below.
I was also pleasantly surprised to receive numerous comments from many people in that room today about the success of the FRSA Conference – even some who weren’t there said they had heard great things about it. I am extremely grateful to all those who attended and to the organisations who supported them to be there.
One of the key questions we have in our Conference Evaluation is ‘All in all, how useful was the Conference for furthering your thinking on adapting to new ways of working and engaging with children, families and communities to meet emerging challenges?’ (the takeaway question). I am so pleased that just under 70% of respondents to that question answered ‘very useful’ and around 30% said ‘potentially useful for future consideration’. This is fantastic to hear!
I thank the team here for pulling together a great snapshot of the Conference in this edition of the eBulletin. I believe the vast majority of concurrent session slides are up on the website but it does take a few weeks to get the plenary sessions which we record and edit published on the website (where we have permission to share). We did have a concurrent session at the Conference presented by DSS on relational contracting and DEX that we recorded due to the huge interest in the topic. We are working on that as a priority and will get it published as soon as we can.
This week is of course National Reconciliation Week and the focus of our Member News feature this week. For FRSA, we are in the final stages of having our Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan approved and have been working very closely with the very talented and wonderful Leticia Forbes from Yirra Miya who has developed our RAP artwork and document. I can’t wait to be able to share the completed work and RAP with you but I am delighted to share a snippet of Leticia’s interpretation of FRSA and our work.
This element of the artwork represents ‘Connection’ which for me is one of the key features and aspects of FRSA’s work. Letitia describes this element as representing ‘our members coming together at FRSA and how they are all connected in providing better societal outcomes for improving the wellbeing, safety and resilience of families, children and communities across Australia’.
