30 October 2025
No to Violence (NTV) welcomes the release of Australia’s Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Commission’s 2024–25 Yearly Report, which calls for urgent national coordination, accountability and investment to stop violence before it starts.
“We have stood at crossroads like this before. We know what needs to be done. Our biggest challenge is not generating solutions but implementing them with the urgency this crisis demands,” said Phillip Ripper, CEO of No to Violence.
Released this morning, Commissioner Micaela Cronin’s report From Crisis to Action: Building on Australia’s Path to 2050 highlights that while the evidence to end gender-based violence is clear, Australia’s systems and accountability mechanisms remain insufficient to deliver sustained change. It outlines a national pathway for ending gender-based violence and calls for coordinated, systemic reform, stronger accountability, more effective prevention and specific measures to engage men and boys as part of the solution.
Mr Ripper said the report’s recommendations represent critical steps toward addressing violence at its source. “To create the integrated system we need, Australia must develop a dedicated National Strategy on People Using Violence, ensuring this work is coordinated, evidence-based and accountable,” he said.
The report’s emphasis on strengthening national accountability and coordination through the Second Action Plan of the National Plan to End Violence Against Women and Children was also strongly endorsed. “Right now, Australia spends a tiny fraction on directly ending perpetration, and even less on preventing it,” Mr Ripper said. “To build safer families and stronger communities, we need a major uplift in investment and innovation to stop violence early.”
No to Violence also supports the report’s recommendations to establish a Commonwealth oversight mechanism to ensure accountability across governments, strengthen the DFSV Commission as a statutory authority with powers to monitor and enforce progress, create a DFSV Youth Advisory Council to embed young people’s voices, and consolidate ANROWS’ role as the national evidence convenor.
“Ending family and sexual violence requires genuine partnership with victim-survivors, frontline services and specialist practitioners who hold men accountable and support change. The knowledge and experience of victim-survivors, including children and young people, together with frontline practitioners, must be central to policymaking if we are to end violence,” said Mr Ripper.
“This also means ensuring dedicated, ongoing funding for peak bodies so that evidence and expertise from the sector inform every level of decision-making.”
About No to Violence
No to Violence is the Australian peak body for organisations and individuals committed to ending men’s use of family violence. We support specialist men’s family violence services and operate the national Men’s Referral Service, a 24/7 telephone and online counselling and referral service to link men to the support they need to get on a pathway of change and end their use of family violence. We undertake research, training and advocacy and work with governments, employers and business to stop family violence at the source.
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