How will we reach our goals?

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We have a list of goals we want to reach as part of our Plan.

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On the following pages we explain our goals for each domain.

And we include some examples of what we can do to help reach those goals.

Prevention

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1. We want to change community attitudes that say violence against women is okay.

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2. We want to have gender equality in Australia.

Your gender is what you feel and understand about who you are as a person.

It isn’t about whether your body looks male or female.

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Gender equality will happen when all people in Australia believe everyone is equal, including women and men.

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3. We want everyone to understand:

  • what good relationships are
  • how to respect all other people.

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4. We want to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples by:

  • listening to what communities need
  • supporting communities to stop violence.

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5. We want to help men and boys to have:

  • good ideas about what it means to be a man
  • good relationships with their friends
  • respect for women and girls.

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6. We want to use technology to help end violence against women and children.

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7. We want to:

  • make sure women are safe where they work
  • stop sexual harassment at work.

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Sexual harassment is when someone makes you feel uncomfortable when they:

  • make sexual comments about you that you don’t like
  • act in a sexual way towards you.

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8. We want to listen to children and young people who experience violence.

This can help us learn new ways to support children and young people.

Early intervention

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1. We want to:

  • support people who experience violence
  • stop it from happening again.

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2. We want to work with children and young people who use violence at home.

This includes learning new ways to support children and young people to stop using violence.

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3. We want to act quickly when a person:

  • first uses violence
  • might start using violence.

And we want to support these people to not use violence.

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4. We want to make sure that people who use violence are responsible for their behaviour.

This includes understanding how their violence affects people.

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5. We want services and the community to support women and children who are more at risk of experiencing violence.

This might stop violence from:

  • happening
  • getting worse.

Response

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1. We want to have good services that support women and children who experience violence anywhere in Australia.

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2. We want to make sure women and children from different communities can find and use services that meet their needs.

This includes understanding what stops them from getting support now.

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3. We want to make sure women and children who leave violence:

  • have somewhere safe to live
  • don’t always have to leave their home.

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4. We want to make sure the justice system understands the needs of people who experience violence.

The justice system helps to make people who use violence responsible for their behaviour. This includes police, courts, the law and prisons.

Recovery and healing

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1. We want to have good recovery services that support people who experience violence.

This includes services that:

  • are easy to find and use
  • work well for everyone
  • know the best ways to help.

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2. We want to have recovery services that meet the needs of women and children from different communities all over Australia.

This includes services provided by people in their own communities.

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3. We want everyone who has experienced sexual violence to get the help they need to recover and heal.

They might get this help when they are young, or later in life.

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Sexual violence is when someone:

  • makes you do sexual things you don’t want to do
  • does something sexual to you that you don’t want them to do.

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4. We want to make sure children and young people who experience violence can get the help they need to recover and heal.

This includes young people who use violence now.