21 March 2025
The energy in our Federal Election Briefing virtual room earlier this month was electric.
Huge thanks to everyone who joined us that day to build momentum for our campaign to keep family violence on the agenda during this election campaign.
We have analysed each of the six breakout room discussions and found four key areas which kept reverberating throughout discussions:
Support for children and young people to recover and heal
Scaling up investment in community-led and place-based responses
Need for a National Knowledge Hub to cement practice knowledge on work with people using violence
Strong coordinated and collaborative advocacy across domestic, family and sexual violence
The insights you shared are shaping a joint letter we will send to you after the Federal Budget on Tuesday night. It will also shape our analysis of the Government’s announcements next week. You can follow the Budget announcements here, due to drop at 7:30 AEDT, 25th March. We will send you our Budget analysis next Wednesday.
In the meantime, you can read No to Violence’s budget submission here.
Your feedback is shaping messaging we can all use to put family violence on the agenda during the upcoming election campaign. These resources will be hosted on a special part of No to Violence’s website – a new campaign hub.
As our attention turned to communities in Queensland and northern New South Wales with the arrival of Cyclone Alfred, politicians pumped the brakes on their campaigning.
We are now due to go to the polls in May. The decision to hold a federal budget this side of the election means we have more time to get ready for the election before campaigning officially begins.
In the meantime, we want to keep talking!
There are a few ways to keep in touch:
Subscribe via the webpage to receive updates
Email us at policyandresearch@ntv.org.au
Come along to a drop-in session on the 31st of March from 12.30-1.30pm (AEDT) – keep an eye on your calendar invites
Stay tuned for more details about the campaign launch event
If you are looking for resources and other ways to prepare for election campaigning season, we recommend starting with The Commons Social Change Library for campaigns support or The Frameworks Institute for insights on communicating for change.
