27 November 2025
To mark the start of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, No to Violence, together with Stopping Family Violence and SPEAQ, has announced Grace Tame and Stan Grant as keynote speakers for the 2026 National Conference, Ending Men’s Family Violence: From Local Practice to National Strategy, in Hobart on 11–12 March 2026.
The conference will bring together practitioners, service providers, policymakers and researchers from across Australia and beyond in a shared commitment to end men’s family violence.
The event will connect frontline innovation to national policy reform, focusing on how communities, services and governments can work together for prevention, early intervention and response to men’s family violence and priorities for whole-of-system improvement.
“We’re honoured to have Grace Tame and Stan Grant lead this important national conversation,” said Phillip Ripper, CEO of No to Violence. “Both have shown extraordinary courage in challenging the attitudes and structures that allow violence and inequality to persist. Their voices will help us build a common vision for accountability, healing and change to stop violence at the source.”
Across two days, the conference will explore practical and research-driven approaches to ending men’s use of family violence through collaboration and shared learning. Sessions will focus on engaging men who use violence, intervening earlier to break cycles of harm, strengthening system accountability and driving structural reforms across services that promote safety and responsibility, while building the movement needed to shift norms and create lasting impact.
“Ending men’s family violence requires a collective effort from the frontline to national leadership,” said Damian Green, CEO of Stopping Family Violence. “This conference provides a critical opportunity to strengthen collaboration across jurisdictions and ensure the voices of those working directly with men and boys are central to reform.”
Alex, co-convener of the SPEAQSteering Committee, added: “If we want to end men’s domestic and family violence, we need to align practice and policy. This conference is about sharing what works and learning from each other as we continue working towards safety, accountability, and genuine sustained change.”
Ending Men’s Family Violence: From Local Practice to National Strategy
2026 National Conference
Presented by No to Violence in collaboration with Stopping Family Violence and SPEAQ
11–12 March 2026
The Hotel Grand Chancellor, Hobart, Tasmania
Tickets available at www.events.ntv.org.au/registration/
Media Contact: Jo Nilsson
Media & Advocacy Advisor, No to Violence
communications@ntv.org.au | 0455666492
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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.
Please list the Men’s Referral Service with all Domestic, Sexual and Family Violence stories: the Men’s Referral Service provides counselling and referrals for men who are concerned about their behaviour: 1300 766 491
About Stopping Family Violence
Stopping Family Violence Inc. (SFV) is a not for profit established in Western Australia to drive forward the agenda of perpetrator response and grow the evidence base that supports this work. The purpose of the organisation is to work in partnership with women and children’s services, policy makers and researchers to provide leadership around family and domestic violence perpetrator response. With a focus on creating opportunities for connection and collaboration, SFV supports the sector through advocacy, training with a focus on workforce development, research and program development.
About SPEAQ – Service Providers for the Elimination of Abuse Queensland
SPEAQ is QLD’s network of practitioners and services working with men who use domestic and family violence in any form, and with partners or family members affected by their abuse. SPEAQ’s network connects and supports practitioners, coordinators and managers across Queensland. As the only collective voice representing practitioners and services in this field in Queensland, SPEAQ works to inform, educate and advise other professionals, government and the public as the voice of specialist professionals in the field of men’s DFV behaviour change work.
About Grace Tame:
Grace Tame is a survivor-advocate, bestselling author, columnist, and ultra-marathon runner. Named 2021 Australian of the Year, she became a national voice for survivors of child sexual abuse after successfully overturning Tasmania’s gag laws, becoming the first female survivor in the state to speak out under her own name.
She is the founder of the Grace Tame Foundation, a not-for-profit driving national initiatives to prevent, disrupt and respond to child sexual abuse. Her bestselling memoir, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner, was shortlisted for three Australian Book Industry Awards and has cemented her place as a candid and powerful storyteller. Grace is also a regular columnist for The Monthly and The Saturday Paper, where she explores themes of justice, neurodiversity, and social reform.
About Stan Grant:
Stan Grant is a renowned journalist, author, moral philosopher, thinker, filmmaker and communicator. He has had a groundbreaking four-decade career as one of Australia’s most awarded journalists. A Wiradjuri, Kamilaroi and Dharrawal man, Stan has blazed a trail for First Nations journalists. In a career of firsts, he was the first Indigenous Political Correspondent, the first Indigenous Foreign Correspondent, and the first Indigenous person to present a prime-time commercial television news and current affairs program. For a decade he was a senior correspondent for American news giant CNN, based in Asia and the Middle East. He has reported from more than seventy countries and has lived in London, Dubai, Doha, Hong Kong and Beijing.
He is a best-selling author of seven critically hailed and award-winning books covering world affairs, philosophy, theology, political science and Indigenous history. Stan has received numerous awards for his work. He is a three-time winner of Australia’s highest journalism honour, the Walkley Award, and a four-time winner of the prestigious Asia TV award.
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