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Council of Australian Governments, Communique, April 2015. At https://www.coag.gov.au/meetingoutcomes/coag-meeting-communiqu%C3%A9-17-april-2015 (viewed 22 February 2016); Malcolm
Turnbull, Media Release: Women’s Safety Package to #StoptheViolence, 24 September 2015. At
http://www.malcolmturnbull.com.au/media/release-womens-safety-package-to-stoptheviolence
(viewed 11 September 2017).
13 Australian Human Rights Commission, A National System for Domestic and Family Violence Death
Review, 2017, 12. At
https://www.humanrights.gov.au/sites/default/files/document/publication/AHRC_2016_12_19_Expandi
ng_DV_Death_Review.pdf (viewed 11 September 2017).
14 VicHealth, Preventing Violence against Women in Australia: Research Summary, Victorian Health
Promotion Foundation, 2011. At https://www.vichealth.vic.gov.au/media-andresources/publications/violence-against-women-in-australia-research-summary (viewed 11 September
2017). 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/.../Change-the-story-framework-foundations-2.pdf.aspx (viewed 18
September 2017)
15 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 11
September 2017). 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 11 September 2017); 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 11 September 2017).
16 Commonwealth of Australia, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Closing the Gap Prime
Minister’s Report 2017, 95. At http://closingthegap.pmc.gov.au/sites/default/files/ctg-report-2017.pdf
(viewed 11 September 2017).
17 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 11 September
2017). 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-report-2017.pdf (viewed 11 September 2017).
18 Australian Human Rights Commission, Shaping our future: discussions on disability rights, 2017. At
http://www.humanrights.gov.au/our-work/disability-rights/projects/shaping-our-future-discussionsdisability-rights (viewed 11 September 2017); Australian Human Rights Commission, A Conversation
in Gender Equality, 2017. At http://www.humanrights.gov.au/our-work/sexdiscrimination/publications/conversation-gender-equality-2017 (viewed 11 September 2017).
19 Commonwealth of Australia, COAG Advisory Panel on Reducing Violence Against Women and their
Children – Final Report (2016), available at
http://www.coag.gov.au/sites/default/files/communique/COAGAdvisoryPanelonReducingViolenceagain
stWomenandtheirChildren-FinalReport.pdf (accessed 18 September 2017).
20 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 11
September 2017).
21 Such as violence in institutions and residential settings, sexual and reproductive rights violations,
including forced sterilisation and forced abortion, restrictive practices, seclusion and restraint. See
Carolyn Frohmader, Violence Against Women with Disabilities, 2014. At https://www.pwd.org.au/
documents/temp/FS_Violence_WWD's.pdf (viewed 11 September 2017).
22 Carolyn Frohmader, Violence Against Women with Disabilities (2014). At
https://www.pwd.org.au/documents/temp/FS_Violence_WWD's.pdf (viewed 11 September 2017).
23 Parliament of Australia, Senate Community Affairs Reference Committee, Violence, abuse and
neglect against people with disability in institutional and residential settings, including the gender and20