Contents
Acknowledging victim-survivors ............................................................................................................. 6
Terminology............................................................................................................................................ 7
Introduction ........................................................................................................................................... 8
Recommendations snapshot ................................................................................................................ 10
Background .......................................................................................................................................... 11
Forum methodology .............................................................................................................................. 11
Purpose of the Outcomes Report ........................................................................................................ 12
The current state .................................................................................................................................. 15
Embedding existing frameworks and commitments under the standalone National Plan ................. 16
The Wiyi Yani U Thangani (Women’s Voices) Project ......................................................................... 17
Responsibilities and commitments from a human rights perspective ........................................... 21
Supporting reports and common findings ......................................................................................... 22
Links to existing strategies and targets .............................................................................................. 23
Building on the foundation of evidence—First Nations women’s voices, knowledges, work
and research......................................................................................................................................... 26
Violence can only be understood in the social, cultural and political contexts in which
it occurs .................................................................................................................................................. 26
Multiple discriminations intersecting at a structural, institutional and interpersonal level ....... 28
Policy and legislative approaches need to be disentangled from punitive responses ................. 30
Improving responses to violence requires a whole of system approach spanning primary
prevention through to tertiary responses .......................................................................................... 31
Healing models and recovery services focused on First Nations culture are required
to prevent violence ................................................................................................................................ 32
Priority areas–for further consultation ................................................................................................ 33
Overarching priorities ........................................................................................................................... 33
System enablers ..................................................................................................................................... 34
Service system priorities ....................................................................................................................... 35
Wiyi Yani U Thangani • First Nations Women’s Safety Policy Forum • Outcomes Report | 4