Significant national frameworks, approaches and policy and legislative considerations are summarised in Table 1. There are also strategies and action plans at the state and territory levels, which are not mentioned here. All are critical, but require a national approach to guarantee consistent, structural and meaningful progress toward ending violence. Table 1: Summary of existing strategies and targets National strategies for alignment • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Action Plan under the mainstream National Plan to End Violence against Women and Children 2022–2032 • Proposed standalone National Plan to End Violence against First Nations women and children • The National Agreement on Closing the Gap, Four Priority Reforms and 17 Socio-economic outcomes and targets, with a focus on outcome area and Target 13: by 2031, the rate of all forms of family violence and abuse against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and children is reduced at least by 50%, as progress towards zero • Safe and Supported: The National Framework for Protecting Australia’s Children 2021–2031 • National Strategy to Prevent and Respond to Child Sexual Abuse 2021–2030 • Proposed National Strategy to Achieve Gender Equality • The proposed Wiyi Yani U Thangani National Plan to achieve First Nations Gender Justice Related national strategies • National Drug Strategy 2017–2026 • The new National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Plan 2021–2031 • National Strategic Framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ Mental Health and Social and Emotional Wellbeing 2017–2023 • National Housing and Homelessness Agreement • National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Early Childhood Strategy • Australia’s Disability Strategy 2021–2031 Wiyi Yani U Thangani • First Nations Women’s Safety Policy Forum • Outcomes Report | 24