Update on the Family and Domestic Violence Taskforce

The Hon. Sabine Winton MLA, Minister for Prevention of Family and Domestic Violence convened a Family and Domestic Violence Taskforce to consider and provide advice about reforms, and identify actions to strengthen responses to family and domestic violence in Western Australia.

Establishment of a Family and Domestic Violence Taskforce was a key measure requested by the family and domestic violence sector and lived experience advocates at Crisis Talks with Premier Roger Cook on August 31^st, 2023.

The taskforce is time-limited, planned for six months. The first meeting was held on 19 September 2023. For more information, please see the Family and Domestic Violence Taskforce – Terms of Reference

Taskforce members

For information Family and Domestic Violence Taskforce members please see here

For an overview and progress to date, please see here

The Centre for Women’s Safety and Wellbeing acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians and first peoples of Australia. We recognise the impacts of colonisation and dispossession and the contemporary disadvantage experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The Centre for Women’s Safety and Wellbeing is committed to working alongside Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and men to end violence against their women and children in Western Australia.

The Centre for Women’s Safety and Wellbeing acknowledges the strength and resilience of adults, children and young people who have experienced family and domestic violence. We pay respects to those who did not survive and acknowledge the families, friends and communities who have lost loved ones to this preventable and widespread issue. We are committed to ensuring responses to family and domestic violence are informed by lived experience.

The Centre for Women’s Safety and Wellbeing recognises, welcomes and respects people of diverse gender, sex and sexuality. We are committed to greater inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer people (LGBTIQ).