What's New
July - August 2008
- National Child Protection Week 7-13 September 2008
- Submission on the discussion paper, Australia's Children: Safe and Well. A National Framework for protecting Australia's children
- Community leaders call on political leaders: "Make safeguarding children a top national priority"
- Submission to the Productivity Commission Inquiry into paid maternity, paternity and parental leave
- National Child Protection plan: comments invited
- National Families Week 2008
- Latest National Family News
Families Australia
Families Australia is Australia's independent, peak, not-for-profit organisation dedicated to promoting the needs and interests of families. Families Australia is not aligned to any political party or religious group.
Families Australia envisions a society that recognises the central role of families in our community and embraces its responsibilities for the development, nurturing and wellbeing of all families. more
We are a strong advocate for those in our community who are vulnerable, least advantaged or facing difficulty. more
Campaigns and advocacy
- Helping to devise the National Child Protection Framework more
- Assisting ‘Forgotten Australians’ who were in institutional care as children more
- Raising awareness about Indigenous family issues more
- Advocating for grandparents to receive greater support more
- Helping carers of children with severe disability more
- Advocating for carers of older people and people with disability more
- Highlighting the needs of families affected by substance abuse more
- Promoting better work and family balance more
- Supporting the campaign to prevent violence against women more
- Supporting universal paid parental leave more
- Celebrating families through National Families Week more
More campaigns
Latest statements
- Protecting children more
- Views on the 2008 Federal Budget more
- How the Federal Government can further help families more
- Carers need greater assistance more
- Getting the right work-family balance more