Submission in relation to the consultation draft of Change for Children: [Tasmania's 10 year Child Sexual Abuse Strategy] - September, 2024
This submission is in relation to the ‘consultation draft’ of Change for Children: “Tasmania’s 10 year strategy for upholding the rights of children by preventing, identifying and responding to child sexual abuse”. It has been developed utilising the practice wisdom and lived expertise of Engender Equality staff and contractors, and that of Tasmania’s Family and Sexual Violence Alliance (FSVA).
Submission on the Tasmanian Government’s Conversion Practices Bill - February, 2024
Engender Equality, a dedicated family violence service committed to fostering safe and supportive environments, seeks to express concern regarding the proposed Miscellaneous (Conversion Practices) Bill 2024 in Tasmania. As advocates for the wellbeing and safety of individuals and families impacted by family violence and gender-based violence, we express our reservations about the Bill’s current form and its potential implications.
Submission to the Family Law Amendment Bill 2023 - June 2023
Engender Equality is Tasmania’s statewide specialist family violence service, providing frontline counselling and support to all people affected by family violence and abuse, alongside advocacy, community education and training to address gender inequality and gendered violence in all its forms. Established in 1987, we are a Tasmanian leader in promoting gender equality and addressing family violence to benefit the whole community. We welcome the opportunity to comment on the Family Law Amendment Bill 2023.
Submission to the Inquiry into Tasmanian Adult Imprisonment and Youth Detention Matters - March, 2023
This submission promotes calls for a gendered lens to be applied to imprisonment and detention to consider the unique experiences of women in the Tasmanian Prison System.
Submission on the National Principles to Address Coercive Control - November, 2022
Engender Equality and the lived-experience group, Advocates for Change, give feedback on the the development of the National Principles to Address Coercive Control.
Submission to the third Tasmanian Family and Sexual Violence Action Plan - May, 2022
Tasmania requires a new Family and Sexual Violence Action Plan that is both strategically directed towards, and sufficiently resourced to deliver, community-based prevention and response activities that meet the needs of Tasmania’s highly dispersed, largely rural, socially and economically disadvantaged population.
Submission to the Tasmanian Women's Strategy 2022-2027 - April, 2022
In many ways the draft Strategy achieves its objectives in reflecting critical life domains in which women’s experiences are far from equal – in relation to safety and economic security, for example. In our assessment, however, it falls short of translating these objectives into realisable outcomes for the women we know and work alongside across Tasmanian communities.
Submission to the Commission of Inquiry into the Tasmanian Government’s Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Institutional Settings - July, 2021
Engender Equality calls for an adequate understanding of the role that organisational culture plays in enabling child sexual abuse in institutional settings and proposes that hierarchical allocation of power within bureaucratic systems reduces the opportunities for individual accountability, with the result of diminished transparency. Our submission has been researched and written by Dr Morag MacSween and is informed by over three decades of experience as a service provider, advocacy organisation and strategic partner in the Tasmanian family and sexual violence sectors.
Submission to the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability - March, 2021
Developed in conjunction with Dr Morag MacSween, our submission to the Royal Commission focuses on the experience of people with disability in relation to violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation caused by family and relationship violence. This intersection is too often invisible in public debate.
Joint submission on the Family Violence Reforms Bill 2021
Engender Equality provides specialist counselling, psychoeducation and support for individuals and groups affected by family violence throughout Tasmania, together with advocacy and training to address gender inequality and reduce violence against women and children.
Yemaya Women’s Support Service provides free and confidential counselling and support to women who are experiencing, or have experienced, abuse from an intimate partner. Together, we welcome the opportunity to provide a submission on the draft Family Violence Reforms Bill (the Bill).