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10.   Since 2009 the Department of Social Services has assigned considerable weight on protecting our most vulnerable, initially conducting major three year forums National Framework for Protecting Australia’s Children.  Multiple politicians and domestic violence authorities from across Australia attended every three years

Below is an extract from Families Australia Submission to the Department of Social Services on the National Framework for Protecting Australia’s Children: Recommendations for the Third Action Plan 2015-18 (submitted in April 2015):

  • "The Third Action Plan must contain initiatives that have a high likelihood of reducing child abuse and neglect and enhance children’s wellbeing at the earliest possible time.

  • Rather than contain numerous activities, the Third Action Plan should concentrate on major key initiatives that are likely to drive substantial and sustained change and which will also engender community support.

  • It is important that the National Framework work toward the prevention of child abuse and neglect by emphasising initiatives that prevent abuse and neglect from occurring in the first instance and responding early when problems do arise.

Patently, the only new, untried initiative with a high likelihood of reducing child abuse and neglect and enhance children’s wellbeing at the earliest possible time  that will  drive substantial and sustained change and which will also engender community support  and will  prevent abuse and neglect from occurring in the first instance is the re-introduction of both Corporal Punishment and Capital Punishment to each father, step-father or former partner (over 18 years of age) found guilty of executing their child or step-child or children, or former partner's child or children.

Below is an extract from Femicide: an intractable history (Australian Women’s History Network - 27 Feb 2020) where three accredited Australian university academics acknowledge that current "Law and policing have long proved weak remedies to a seemingly intractable problem":

"We need to find ways to ensure that women’s equality means just that in a place where it continues to be most threatened, the home and the family. Law and policing have long proved weak remedies to a seemingly intractable problem that demands more imaginative and sustainable solutions including primary prevention, ensuring women’s economic security and supporting effective men’s behaviour change programmes."

 

Below is an extract from Australia has a 'particular problem' with filicide, but experts say we're failing to find solutions (ABCNews - where Professor Thea Brown, Monash University acknowledges that Australia has failed to identify a remedy to reduce annual Filicide deaths:

"I think what we need to be talking about is that we do have a particular problem with filicide in Australia," Professor Brown said. "But there has been a failure to acknowledge the problem, and a failure to work towards solutions."

Our Forefather Governors identified and practiced the " ... more imaginative and sustainable solutions including primary prevention....".

 

 

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