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Stage three: post-2022
Full implementation of this framework will, towards the
end of the current National Plan in 2022, begin to show
significant and measurable gains. Continued bipartisan
support and investment from all levels of government –
working in partnership with civil society and the private
sector – will ensure prevention activity is embedded into
systems, institutions, organisations and communities across
sectors and across the country. A collaborative national
approach is articulated and agreed to take Australia to the
next stage – beyond the National Plan – of significant and
population-level reductions in violence against women and
their children.
Envisaged outcomes
• Effective responses to sexism, harassment,
discrimination and violence against women and
their children are the norm in organisations.
• Social norms, attitudes and behaviours contributing
to violence against women and their children are
widely recognised and considered unacceptable.
When expressed, such attitudes are more confidently
challenged by peers, friends and families, across
private and public settings.
• There is a measurable shift in the public debate
towards an increased understanding and intolerance
of violence against women and their children, and
greater support for gender equality and models of
masculinity based on respect.
• There is an increase in women’s participation and
representation in decision-making positions across
organisations, networks and communities.
• As violence is better identified, less tolerated and
greater responsibility is taken in the media and
popular culture for the representation of violence
and gender, women feel more confident to disclose
violence and/or report to police and services,
resulting in an increase in reporting.
• Women and men enjoy measurably increased
equality on economic, political, social, health and
wellbeing indicators.
• Incidents of violence against women and their
children decline.
How will we know we are making a difference?
Preventing violence against women is a long-term and
intergenerational endeavour. In working towards this
ultimate goal it will be important to focus both on
long-term outcomes and on monitoring incremental
change and progress along the way.
A guide to monitoring will follow this framework that will:
• Identify measures of national prevention efforts,
informed by this framework, that will contribute to
shifts in the underlying drivers of violence against
women and their children. This might include highlevel
indicators of structural gender equality in
economic, social and political terms, or normative
measures such as shifts in attitudes towards
women and violence, levels of street and workplace
harassment, or representations of gender and
violence in popular culture.
• Provide stakeholders with detailed guidance to
measure the impact of prevention efforts at different
levels of the Australian population, highlighting existing
measures and gaps in data at a national and state
and territory level to develop a comprehensive picture
of the status of the drivers of violence against women
and their children.
Change the story will be reviewed in 2018 to align with planning for the National Plan’s Fourth Action Plan 2019–2022, and
again in 2021 to align with the final stage of the existing National Plan, and developing its successor. The reviews will update
the literature and evidence on prevention, examine uptake of the framework, and assess its strengths and weaknesses to
enable continuous improvement.
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