Australian Human Rights Commission Submission to the CEDAW Committee – 12 June 2018 14 The National Plan is a twelve-year plan which aims to coordinate actions across Australian jurisdictions to reduce levels of violence against women and children. See Council of Australian Governments, The National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children 2010–2022, 2011. At: https://www.dss.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/08_2014/national_plan_accessible.pdf (viewed 30 May 2018). 15 Council of Australian Governments, National Plan to reduce violence against women and their children, 2011, 7. At https://www.dss.gov.au/women/programs-services/reducing-violence/thenational-plan-to-reduce-violence-against-women-and-their-children-2010-2022 (viewed 30 May 2018). See also Commonwealth of Australia, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Closing the Gap Prime Minister’s Report 2017, 95-96. At http://closingthegap.pmc.gov.au/sites/default/files/ctg-report2017.pdf (viewed 30 May 2018). 16 Council of Australian Governments, COAG Meeting Communique (17 April 2015). At https://www.coag.gov.au/meeting-outcomes/coag-meeting-communiqu%C3%A9-17-april-2015 (viewed 30 May 2018); Malcolm Turnbull, Media Release: Women’s Safety Package to #StoptheViolence (24 September 2015). At http://www.malcolmturnbull.com.au/media/releasewomens-safety-package-to-stoptheviolence (viewed 30 May 2018). 17 Victorian Health Promotion Foundation, Preventing Violence against Women in Australia: Research Summary (1 February 2017). At https://www.vichealth.vic.gov.au/media-andresources/publications/violence-against-women-in-australia-research-summary (viewed 30 May 2018). Our Watch, Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety (ANROWS) and VicHealth, Framework foundations 2: Think pieces, stakeholder consultations, issues, implications and approach Companion document to Change the Story: A shared framework for the primary prevention of violence against women and their children in Australia (2015) 14. At: https://www.ourwatch.org.au/getmedia/a415a239-5de6-4dbd-806d-4e92a53e532e/Change-the-storyframework-foundations-2.pdf.aspx (viewed 30 May 2018) 18 Australian Government Department of Social Services, Third Action Plan 2016-19 of the National Plan to Reduce Violence Against Women and their Children 2010-2022 (2016). At https://www.dss.gov.au/women/programs-services/reducing-violence/third-action-plan (viewed 13 May 2018). 19 Parliament of Australia, Senate Community Affairs Reference Committee, Violence, abuse and neglect against people with disability in institutional and residential settings, including the gender and age related dimensions, and the particular situation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with disability, and culturally and linguistically diverse people with disability (25 November 2015), xxiii [10.68], Recommendation 24. At http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Community_Affairs/Violence_abu se_neglect/Report (viewed 30 May 2018). 20 The Commission has reported to the UN on violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and to Commonwealth Inquiries. See Australian Human Rights Commission, Australia's Universal Periodic Review on human rights – Annual Progress Reports. At https://www.humanrights.gov.au/australias-universal-periodic-review-human-rights (viewed 30 May 2018). Australian Human Rights Commission, Submission No 57 to Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs, Parliament of Australia, Inquiry into violence, abuse and neglect against people with disability in institutional and residential settings (11 February 2015) 3. At http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Community_Affairs/Violence_abu se_neglect (viewed 30 May 2018); Australian Human Rights Commission, Submission No 41 to the Senate Finance and Public Administration Reference Committee, Inquiry into Domestic Violence and Gender Inequality (4 April 2016). At http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Finance_and_Public_Administrati on/DV_and_Gender_Inequality (viewed 30 May 2018). They are hospitalised for family violence-related assault at 30 times the rate of non-Indigenous women. See: Commonwealth of Australia, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Closing the Gap Prime Minister’s Report 2017 (14 February 2017), 95. At https://www.pmc.gov.au/resourcecentre/indigenous-affairs/closing-gap-prime-ministers-report-2017 (viewed 30 May 2018). 21 Australian Human Rights Commission, Submission to the Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women (January 2017). At: https://www.humanrights.gov.au/submissions/violence-against-womenaustralia-2017 (viewed 21 May 2018); Australian Human Rights Commission, Social Justice and Native Title Report (2016). At: https://www.humanrights.gov.au/publications/aboriginal-and-torresstrait-islander-social-justice (viewed 21 May 2018); Australian Human Rights Commission, Social Justice and Native Title Report (2012). At: https://www.humanrights.gov.au/our-work/aboriginal-andtorres-strait-islander-social-justice/publications/social-justice-report-11 (viewed 22 May 2018); Close 17