• Emily Carter, Marninwarntikura Women's Resource Centre • Associate Professor, Dr Hannah McGlade, Curtin University • June Reimer, First Peoples Disability Network • Scientia Associate Professor, Dr Kyllie Cripps, UNSW Sydney • Marcia Langton AO, The University of Melbourne • Associate Professor, Dr Marlene Longbottom, University of Wollongong • Peta MacGillivray, UNSW Sydney • Phynea Clarke, National Family Violence Prevention and Legal Service Forum • Shirleen Campbell, Tangentyere Women’s Family Safety Group • Wynetta Dewis, National Family Violence Prevention and Legal Service Forum Purpose of the Outcomes Report The purpose of the Report is to summarise the findings of the Forum, bringing together related evidence and literature, to inform the pathway forward and guarantee that First Nations women and children are central to developing national plans to end violence. This Report comes at a critical moment, given the release of the National Plan to End Violence against Women and Children 2022–2032. A deliverable under this National Plan is a dedicated Action Plan for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander family safety, set for release next year, and a commitment to develop the standalone National Plan. As Forum participants emphasised, there is significant opportunity for First Nations women to take a self-determining position to inform the design and delivery of these plans. This Report, reflecting the voices of participants at the Forum, recommends a pathway forward. It has been developed as an outcome of the Forum but does not reflect an outcome of a comprehensive consultation process and cannot be considered an end point. Rather it is a starting point to create the processes and mechanisms that will guarantee that First Nations women and children in all their diversity are active participants with governments to work on the policies and approaches that will end violence in their lives. As Forum participants called for, the Report canvasses some of the work that has been done to date, including existing frameworks and recommendations to align with and utilise, and the extensive research and knowledge of First Nations women to build upon. This is a high-level summary and by no means a full account of previous work and the evidence that exists. The Report finishes with an outline of the priority areas raised by Forum participants and recommendations of next steps for the Australian Government to take, to effectively progress the design and delivery of the standalone National Plan. Wiyi Yani U Thangani • First Nations Women’s Safety Policy Forum • Outcomes Report | 12