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9 December 2022 - 8:00 am To 23 February 2023 - 5:00 pm

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Developing the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Action Plan – Survey

Developing the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Action Plan Survey

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Survey questions:

Reminder: All questions are optional. Only answer questions that you are comfortable responding to.

Partial responses will be accepted.
1. Are you completing this survey as an individual, or as someone representing an organisation?(Required)
- Individual
- Organisation

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Individual
The following questions will help us to better understand the diversity and characteristics of individual survey respondents.
1. Do you identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander?
- Aboriginal
- Torres Strait Islander
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
- No
- Unsure
- Prefer not to say
2. How do you identify? (tick all that apply)
- Female
- Male
- Non-binary
- No gender
- Unsure
- Prefer not to say
- Other
Other
3. What is your age?
- 0-15 years
- 16-29 years
- 30-45 years
- 46-60 years
- 61+
- Unsure
- Prefer not to say
4. Do you identify as having a disability?
- Yes
- No
- Unsure
- Prefer not to say
5. Do you identify as a member of the LGBTIQA+ community?
- Yes
- No
- Unsure
- Prefer not to say
6. Are you part of the Sistergirl and/or Brotherboy community?
- Yes
- No
- Unsure
- Prefer not to say
7. What state or territory do you live in?
- ACT
- NSW
- QLD
- SA
- NT
- VIC
- TAS
- WA
- Unsure
- Prefer not to say
8. Do you live in the Torres Strait?
- Yes
- No
- Unsure
- Prefer not to say
9. In which type of location do you live?
- City
- Town
- Remote
- Very remote
- Unsure
- Prefer not to say
10. Have you ever experienced family, domestic or sexual violence, or another form of gender-based violence?
- Yes
- No
- Unsure
- Prefer not to say
11. Do you work in an organisation that provides specialist family, domestic, and sexual violence services and support directly to victim-survivors?
- Yes
- No
- Unsure
- Prefer not to say
12. Do you work in a frontline service that has regular contact with people experiencing family, domestic and sexual violence (such as police, ambulance, health care providers, child protection, teachers or social workers)?
- Yes
- No
- Unsure
- Prefer not to say
13. Do you work for an Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation or an Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation?
- Yes
- No
- Unsure
- Prefer not to say

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Organisation
The following questions will help us to better understand the experience informing survey respondents.
1. Which organisation are you representing?
- Prefer not to say
2. Is your organisation an Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation or an Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation?
- Yes
- No
- Unsure
- Prefer not to say
3. Does your organisation provide specialist family, domestic, and sexual violence services and support directly to victim-survivors?
- Yes
- No
- Unsure
- Prefer not to say
4. Does your organisation provide a frontline service that has regular contact with people experiencing family, domestic and sexual violence (such as police, ambulance, health care, child protection, teaching or social work)?
- Yes
- No
- Unsure
- Prefer not to say
5. What services does your organisation provide? (tick all that apply)
- Crisis services
- Housing services
- Accommodation services (such as refuges)
- Counselling services
- Advocacy
- General health
- Medical and allied health
- Legal services
- Financial counselling
- Emergency services
- Policing
- Disability services
- Training and educational services
- Child and family services
- Family law services
- Child protection services
- Aged care
- Employment support
- Child and family services
- Youth services
- Healing programs
- Cultural programs
- Community development programs
- Prevention focussed services
- Working with men
- Men’s behaviour change services
- Reunification services
- Kinship care services
- Referral and connection services
- Research
- Other
Other
6. Where are your organisation’s services available? (tick all that apply)
- ACT
- NSW
- QLD
- SA
- NT
- VIC
- TAS
- WA
- Torres Strait
- National
- Online
- Telephone
7. Where are your organisation’s direct client facing services available? (tick all that apply)
- Very remote
- Remote
- Outer regional
- Inner regional
- Major cities
- Online
- Telephone
8. Does your organisation provide services to the following client groups? (tick all that apply)
- Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples
- Members of the LGBTIQA+ community
- Members of the Sistergirl and/or Brotherboy community
- Culturally and linguistically diverse communities
- Migrants and refugees
- People with disability
- People experiencing homelessness
- Children and/or young people
- Older people
- Families engaged with the child protection system
- People involved with the justice system
- Other groups
Other groups

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Your responses to the following questions will help us determine to what extent the Action Plan Framework meets the needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. There are 25 questions in total in this section and an option to upload a submission at the end.
1. In your opinion, what are the drivers of violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and children (e.g. impacts of colonisation, inter-generational trauma, structural inequality, discrimination, gender inequality)?
2. In your opinion, what specific actions could address the drivers of violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and children and prevent family, domestic and sexual violence from occurring?
3. The draft Action Plan vision statement is: Our people, no matter where they live, work and play are culturally safe and strong, and live free from violence. Do you agree with this vision statement?
- Strongly agree
- Agree
- Neither agree or disagree
- Disagree
- Strongly disagree
Please explain why.
4. One of the five Action Plan reform areas is: Voice, self-determination, agency. This reflects the need for our national policy response to include shared decision-making with government in genuine partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, be community-led and for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and children to be front and centre of design and delivery. Do you agree this should be one of the five Action Plan reform areas?
- Strongly agree
- Agree
- Neither agree or disagree
- Disagree
- Strongly disagree
Please explain why.
5. In your opinion, what needs to occur to promote greater self-determination for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in relation to addressing family domestic and sexual violence?
6. In your opinion, how should the voices of children experiencing family, domestic and sexual violence be listened to and their rights to agency and self-determination be respected?
7. One of the five Action Plan reform areas is: Strength, resilience, therapeutic healing. This reflects the need for solutions to be trauma-aware, healing-informed, culturally-safe and kinship-centred, and for cultural responses to be used to address harmful behaviours. Do you agree this should be one of the five Action Plan reform areas?
- Strongly agree
- Agree
- Neither agree or disagree
- Disagree
- Strongly disagree
Please explain why.
8. One of the five Action Plan reform areas is: Reforming institutions and systems. This reflects the need to address systemic bias and structural racism, to strengthen and build capacity in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander workforce, and to recognise the need for urgent law and legislation reform. Do you agree this should be one of the five Action Plan reform areas?
- Strongly agree
- Agree
- Neither agree or disagree
- Disagree
- Strongly disagree
Please explain why.
9. One of the five Action Plan reform areas is: Inclusion and intersectionality. This reflects the need for diverse experiences and needs to be acknowledged, including those of women, girls, men, boys, Elders, Stolen Generations, people living remotely, people with disability, and LGBTIQA+, Sistergirl and Brotherboy people. Do you agree this should be one of the five Action Plan reform areas?
- Strongly agree
- Agree
- Neither agree or disagree
- Disagree
- Strongly disagree
Please explain why.
10. What could be done to ensure services are supportive and accessible to people with diverse experiences and needs, including people with disability and LGBTIQA+ people and Sistergirl and Brotherboy people?
11. What specific services and supports are required for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples living in remote and very remote areas?
12. What could be done to ensure services are supportive and accessible to Elders and Stolen Generations?
13. What specific services and responses are required for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men and boys experiencing family violence?
14. One of the five Action Plan reform areas is: Evidence and data eco-systems - Understanding our stories. This reflects the need for a local, culturally-informed data and evidence eco-system to be created and curated by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples that will inform decision-making at both the community level and within governments. Do you agree this should be one of the five Action Plan reform areas?
- Strongly agree
- Agree
- Neither agree or disagree
- Disagree
- Strongly disagree
Please explain why.
15. Which three of the five reform areas are most important to you?
- Voice/Self-determination/Agency
- Strength, resilience and therapeutic healing
- Reforming institutions and systems
- Inclusion and intersectionality
- Evidence and data eco-systems understand our stories
16. Do you think there are reform areas missing that should be added?
The Action Plan will be focussed on meeting immediate safety needs as well as laying strong foundations for longer-term change.
17. In your opinion, what are your top three priorities to address the immediate safety needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, families and communities?
- Improving justice and equitable outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
- Additional funding to Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations
- Building capability of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander service providers
- Increasing cultural capability within mainstream service providers
- Self-determination in practice, ensuring that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have a voice regarding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander programs
- Services and policy
- Increasing the availability of prevention strategies to reduce alcohol and other drug harm
- Other
Other
18. What else should be considered in addressing the immediate safety needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and children?
The Action Plan framework proposes the establishment of an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander family, domestic and sexual violence peak body and an independent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commissioner for First Nations family safety.
19. Do you agree that establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander family, domestic and sexual violence peak body is an important step for laying the foundations for long-term structural change?
- Strongly agree
- Agree
- Neither agree or disagree
- Disagree
- Strongly disagree
Please explain why.
20. Do you agree that establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commissioner for First Nations family safety is an important step for laying the foundations for long-term structural change?
- Strongly agree
- Agree
- Neither agree or disagree
- Disagree
- Strongly disagree
Please explain why.
21. What else should be considered under the Action Plan for laying strong foundations for longer-term change?
22. What practical actions would you recommend to prioritise the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples?
- Commitment to a strengths-based approach
- Focus on collective healing and cultural reclamation
- Building data ecosystems and data sovereignty at all levels
- Truth-telling and societal education
- Respectful culturally-aware relationships and cross-collaboration
- Commitment to long-term investment
- Accountable and transparent partnerships
- Other
Other
23. How could government services (including police, child protection, courts and justice systems and family law) be more trauma-informed, culturally-safe and strength-based in the support they provide to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families and individuals (including children) who have experienced family, domestic and sexual violence?
24. Where should government prioritise investment in building the evidence base around Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and children who have experienced violence?
- National prevalence surveys
- Community-level data
- Experiences of individuals
- Other
Other
Please explain why
25. Is there anything else you would like to add that has not been considered?

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Thank you for your contribution to this survey.

Please ensure you click the Submit button on this page to ensure your survey is submitted.

If you wish to upload a submission, please provide feedback on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Action Plan Framework (Slide 5 of the attached Consultation Guide). You also may wish to consider the following topics in your submission:
- Drivers and reinforcing factors of violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and children
- Primary prevention
- Working with men and boys
- Healing from trauma
- Needs of different groups
- Improving justice responses
- The specific needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children
- Community-controlled solutions
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