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It does this by making explicit the connections between gender ", "Primary prevention of violence against women" ], "watch_terms": [ "Reduction in the prevalence of violence against women" ], "avoid_claiming_without_evidence": [] }, "review_note": "Structured strategy exists but is incomplete." }, "strategy_brief_md": "# Our Watch — Strategy Brief\n\n**Reporting period**: 2024-25\n**Corporate plan in force**: 2025-26\n**Corporate Plan**: [2025-26](https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)\n\n## Our purpose / purposes\n\n> To drive change, and guide action to achieve the ultimate goal of keeping all women free from all forms of violence. It does this by making explicit the connections between gender inequality, other forms of inequality and violence against women, and the specific gendered drivers of this violence, together with several potential reinforcing factors. [[CP p.14](https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf#page=14)]\n\n## Government priorities for this department\n\n- Primary prevention of violence against women [[CP p.13](https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf#page=13)]\n\n## Outcomes\n\n### Outcome 1: Primary prevention of violence against women\nThe aim of this framework is the primary prevention of violence against women – that is, to change the underlying social conditions that produce and drive this violence, and that excuse, justify or even promote it, to prevent it from occurring in the first place. [[CP p.13](https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf#page=13)]\n\n**Key activities:**\n- Making explicit the connections between gender inequality, other forms of inequality and violence against women\n- Providing evidence-based guidance on how to address these specific gendered drivers and reinforcing factors\n- Identifying the multifaceted actions that are necessary – from policy and legislative reform, to systems and organisational change, to social norms change, to programming and advocacy\n\n## Values and principles\n\n_Human rights principles_\n\n- Collaboration\n- Participation\n- Ensuring equality of outcomes for all\n\n## What they will measure themselves on this year (targets from 2025-26 corporate plan)\n\n| Code | Measure | Target | Source |\n|---|---|---|---|\n| CCE01 | Reduction in the prevalence of violence against women | Sustained reduction | [CP p.13](https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf#page=13) |\n\n## How they performed last year (results from 2024-25 annual report)\n\n| Code | Measure | Result | Status | Source |\n|---|---|---|---|---|\n| CCE01 | Reduction in the prevalence of violence against women | Partially achieved | Partially achieved | AR p.13 |", "strategy_overview_evidence_md": null, "internal_strategy_evidence_md": "# Our Watch - Strategy, Performance, and Operating Profile\n\n**Generated at**: 2026-05-09T22:32:39.456171+00:00\n**Entity ID**: B-003105\n**Entity type**: Joint Venture/Partnership\n**Jurisdiction**: Commonwealth\n**Portfolio**: Social Services\n**Website**: http://www.ourwatch.org.au\n\n> Draft generated from scraped source material. Treat this as an evidence pack for editorial review, not a final judgement.\n\n## Source Coverage\n\n| Source type | Count |\n|---|---:|\n| other-pdfs | 3 |\n| pages | 11 |\n\n## Executive Readout\n\n### Purpose\n\n- [Page 3]\nContents\nAcknowledgements 7\nForeword 8\nIntroduction\b 10\nViolence against women – a serious, prevalent and preventable human rights abuse 10\nThe need for an ongoing and strengthened national approach to prevention 12\nThe purpose of Change the story: Australia’s national policy framework 14\nThe focus of Change the story: the spectrum of violence against women 15\nUnderstanding a population-level approach 16\nWhat’s changed in this second edition?\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)`\n- [Page 4]\nElement\b3\b—\bTwelve\bactions\bto\bprevent\bviolence\bagainst\bwomen\b 59\nEight essential actions to address the gendered drivers of violence and change the social\ncontext in which it occurs 60\nFour supporting actions to address the reinforcing factors 67\nElement\b4\b—\bPrinciples\bof\ba\bnational\bapproach\bto\bprimary\bprevention\b\b 72\nKey principles 72\nElement\b5\b—\bPrevention\btechniques\band\bsettings\b 79\nPrevention techniques 79\nPriority settings and sectors for action 90\nThe importance of a whole-of-setting/sector approach 98\nElement\b6\b—\bCritical\binfrastructure\bfor\ba\bnational\bapproach\bto\bprevention\b 100\nKey elements of an effective prevention infrastructure 101\nElement\b7\b—\bStakeholder\broles\band\bresponsibilities\b 107\nThe responsibility of governments to prevent violence against women 108\nThe critical role of non-government organisations and networks 111\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)`\n- The first edition of\nintimate partners.19 The killing of children Change the story was developed as a priority\nis also strongly correlated with a history of action under the National Plan’s Second\ndomestic/family violence.20 These data reflect Action Plan 2013–16, and was adopted as\nglobal patterns, with upwards of 850 million Australia’s national policy framework for\nwomen experiencing some form of sexual prevention by all Australian governments\nor physical violence in their lifetime, with under the Third Action Plan 2016–19.\nsignificant impacts on their physical and mental\nThe aim of this framework (in both its first and\nhealth and wellbeing.21 In addition to these\nsecond editions) is the primary\bprevention of\ndirect impacts, the threat of violence limits\nviolence against women – that is, to change the\nall women’s quality of life and reduces their\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)`\n- It is the direct result of patriarchal\nvictims of sexual assault recorded\nsystems which privilege the needs, interests\nby police in 2020, 23,153 victims,\nand behaviours of men over women, and\nor 84 per cent, were female.64\nwhich permeate many aspects of Australian\nƒ Women are far more likely than men to\nsociety and institutions.69 Gender inequality\nexperience sexual violence (and other\nis also created by heteronormativity and\nforms of violence) from an intimate\ncisnormativity – attitudes, norms and\npartner, and with more severe impacts.65\nbehaviours that suggest that heterosexuality\nƒ Women are also more likely than men\nis the normal or preferred sexual orientation\nto report fearing for their lives, and\nand cisgender is the normal and preferred\nmore likely to be injured so severely\ngender identity – which then have an impact\nthat they require hospitalisation, or are\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)`\n\n### Role and Functions\n\n- [Page 4]\nElement\b3\b—\bTwelve\bactions\bto\bprevent\bviolence\bagainst\bwomen\b 59\nEight essential actions to address the gendered drivers of violence and change the social\ncontext in which it occurs 60\nFour supporting actions to address the reinforcing factors 67\nElement\b4\b—\bPrinciples\bof\ba\bnational\bapproach\bto\bprimary\bprevention\b\b 72\nKey principles 72\nElement\b5\b—\bPrevention\btechniques\band\bsettings\b 79\nPrevention techniques 79\nPriority settings and sectors for action 90\nThe importance of a whole-of-setting/sector approach 98\nElement\b6\b—\bCritical\binfrastructure\bfor\ba\bnational\bapproach\bto\bprevention\b 100\nKey elements of an effective prevention infrastructure 101\nElement\b7\b—\bStakeholder\broles\band\bresponsibilities\b 107\nThe responsibility of governments to prevent violence against women 108\nThe critical role of non-government organisations and networks 111\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)`\n- [pages 102,103]\natistically significant\nnorms and supporting and reinforcing other\nas a predictor of government action to\nprevention activities.267 When connected to\nredress violence against women.’265 In\nprograms of work that use the approaches\naddition to the direct impact they have on\noutlined in Element 5, they also provide\nviolence against women, women’s rights\na powerful signal to other sectors and\nand feminist movements have also achieved\nsettings, and to the public as a whole, of\nchange across a range of interconnected\nthe necessity of primary prevention, and\nissues, including economic rights, access\nthe role that policy and legislative reform\nto childcare, reproductive rights and\ncan play in the national approach.\nservices and political representation, all of\n102 CHANGE THE STORY (SECOND EDITION)\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)`\n- This recognises that while schools play\nan important role in the socialisation and cognitive and In 2015, Our Watch led a respectful relationships\nemotional development of children and young people, education in secondary schools pilot in\nthey are also important local community hubs with the partnership with the Victorian Department\npotential to influence community attitudes and norms, of Education and 19 schools.\nand they are workplaces with a responsibility to work\nThe evaluation showed that students’ knowledge\ntowards gender equality and ensure that all staff and\nof, attitudes towards and confidence in discussing\nstudents feel respected, safe and valued.\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-they-Story-Three-Years-On-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-they-Story-Three-Years-On-AA.pdf)`\n- Specifically, nation states are\nto the situation of women and girls who\nrequired to take positive steps to eliminate\nencounter multiple and intersecting forms of\nall forms of violence against women.5\ndiscrimination and violence and experience\nHuman rights–based frameworks are an higher rates of all forms of violence, making\nanchor for engaging nation states in their specific recommendations for Australia to\nresponsibilities regarding violence against address violence experienced by Aboriginal\nwomen, as enshrined in international and Torres Strait Islander women, women\ninstruments and agreements.6 While with disabilities, women who are incarcerated,\nother stakeholders also need to play a women from refugee, asylum seeker and\npart, the need (and obligation) for the migrant backgrounds, and older women.14 On\nstate to take primary responsibility for gender equality more broadly, the CEDAW\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)`\n- Pornography also plays a\npornography use is associated with\nsignificant role in shaping expectations\nless progressive attitudes about gender\nand understandings about gender\nroles,161 a belief that women are sex\nroles, sex and consent – particularly for\nobjects,162 rape myth acceptance,163\nyoung people who are still forming their\nmen’s use of sexually aggressive\nideas and attitudes about these issues\nbehaviour164 and strong attachment to\nand are accessing pornography often\ntraditional male ideology and roles.165\nyears before they start having sexual\nthe gendered drivers of violence against relationships.167\nwomen – in particular the condoning of\nviolence against women (driver 1), men’s\nxxiv For more information about the relationship between pornography and the gendered drivers, see\nOur Watch’s background paper Pornography, young people, and preventing violence against women.\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)`\n- Effective\nissues of domestic violence35 improved and that\nrespectful relationships education, therefore, uses the\nschools made positive steps towards developing a\neducation system as a catalyst for generational and\nculture of gender equality and respect throughout\ncultural change by engaging schools as education\nthe school.36 The evaluation of this pilot not only\ninstitutions, as workplaces and as community hubs,\nreconfirmed the evidence base in Change the story,\nin order to address the drivers of gender-based violence\nbut it also helped inform the recommendations\nand create a future free from such violence.18\nof the Victorian Royal Commission into Family\nIn recent years, an increasing number of schools and Violence, and in turn the statewide roll out of\neducation departments across Australia have engaged respectful relationships education in Victoria.\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-they-Story-Three-Years-On-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-they-Story-Three-Years-On-AA.pdf)`\n\n### Strategic Priorities\n\n- [Page 4]\nElement\b3\b—\bTwelve\bactions\bto\bprevent\bviolence\bagainst\bwomen\b 59\nEight essential actions to address the gendered drivers of violence and change the social\ncontext in which it occurs 60\nFour supporting actions to address the reinforcing factors 67\nElement\b4\b—\bPrinciples\bof\ba\bnational\bapproach\bto\bprimary\bprevention\b\b 72\nKey principles 72\nElement\b5\b—\bPrevention\btechniques\band\bsettings\b 79\nPrevention techniques 79\nPriority settings and sectors for action 90\nThe importance of a whole-of-setting/sector approach 98\nElement\b6\b—\bCritical\binfrastructure\bfor\ba\bnational\bapproach\bto\bprevention\b 100\nKey elements of an effective prevention infrastructure 101\nElement\b7\b—\bStakeholder\broles\band\bresponsibilities\b 107\nThe responsibility of governments to prevent violence against women 108\nThe critical role of non-government organisations and networks 111\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)`\n- The first edition of\nintimate partners.19 The killing of children Change the story was developed as a priority\nis also strongly correlated with a history of action under the National Plan’s Second\ndomestic/family violence.20 These data reflect Action Plan 2013–16, and was adopted as\nglobal patterns, with upwards of 850 million Australia’s national policy framework for\nwomen experiencing some form of sexual prevention by all Australian governments\nor physical violence in their lifetime, with under the Third Action Plan 2016–19.\nsignificant impacts on their physical and mental\nThe aim of this framework (in both its first and\nhealth and wellbeing.21 In addition to these\nsecond editions) is the primary\bprevention of\ndirect impacts, the threat of violence limits\nviolence against women – that is, to change the\nall women’s quality of life and reduces their\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)`\n- [Page 3]\nContents\nAcknowledgements 7\nForeword 8\nIntroduction\b 10\nViolence against women – a serious, prevalent and preventable human rights abuse 10\nThe need for an ongoing and strengthened national approach to prevention 12\nThe purpose of Change the story: Australia’s national policy framework 14\nThe focus of Change the story: the spectrum of violence against women 15\nUnderstanding a population-level approach 16\nWhat’s changed in this second edition?\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)`\n- It is the direct result of patriarchal\nvictims of sexual assault recorded\nsystems which privilege the needs, interests\nby police in 2020, 23,153 victims,\nand behaviours of men over women, and\nor 84 per cent, were female.64\nwhich permeate many aspects of Australian\nƒ Women are far more likely than men to\nsociety and institutions.69 Gender inequality\nexperience sexual violence (and other\nis also created by heteronormativity and\nforms of violence) from an intimate\ncisnormativity – attitudes, norms and\npartner, and with more severe impacts.65\nbehaviours that suggest that heterosexuality\nƒ Women are also more likely than men\nis the normal or preferred sexual orientation\nto report fearing for their lives, and\nand cisgender is the normal and preferred\nmore likely to be injured so severely\ngender identity – which then have an impact\nthat they require hospitalisation, or are\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)`\n- Although just 12 per cent of Australiansxv There is a particular tendency for violence\nbelieve that domestic violence is a private against women with disabilities to be\nmatter to be handled by the family, and denied or downplayed, particularly\n7 per centxvi believe that ‘women who where it occurs in institutional and\nare sexually harassed should sort it out service settings and is reclassified using\nthemselves rather than report it’,120 only euphemisms such as ‘abuse’, ‘service\n45 per cent would act if a male friend incident’, ‘neglect’, ‘maltreatment’ or\ntold a sexist joke about women.121 For ‘misconduct’.127 A similar effect can be\nAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander seen in aged care settings when providers\nwomen or women of colour, experiences classify sexual assaults against older\nof violence can be trivialised as a result women as having ‘no impact’, or where\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)`\n- E SS E NTIAL E SS E NTIAL\nƒ Essential\bactions\b1–4\bare\bdesigned\b\nto\btarget\bthe\bfour\bspecific\b Promote women’s Address the intersections\nindependence and between gender inequality\ngendered drivers of violence.\ndecision-making and other forms of systemic\nEach of these four essential actions in public life and and structural oppression\naddresses a specific gendered driver. relationships and discrimination,\nƒ \bEssential\bactions\b5–8\baddress\b and promote broader\nsocial justice\nthe broader social context – the\ngender\binequality\band\bother\b\nforms of structural and systemic A CT ION 3 A CT ION 7\n. .\ndiscrimination\band\boppression\bthat\b\nE SS E NTIAL E SS E NTIAL\ngives rise to violence against women.\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)`\n- [pages 102,103]\natistically significant\nnorms and supporting and reinforcing other\nas a predictor of government action to\nprevention activities.267 When connected to\nredress violence against women.’265 In\nprograms of work that use the approaches\naddition to the direct impact they have on\noutlined in Element 5, they also provide\nviolence against women, women’s rights\na powerful signal to other sectors and\nand feminist movements have also achieved\nsettings, and to the public as a whole, of\nchange across a range of interconnected\nthe necessity of primary prevention, and\nissues, including economic rights, access\nthe role that policy and legislative reform\nto childcare, reproductive rights and\ncan play in the national approach.\nservices and political representation, all of\n102 CHANGE THE STORY (SECOND EDITION)\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)`\n- This is acknowledged by the\n‘[Aboriginal and Torres\nClosing the Gap target: ‘by 2031, the rate of\nall forms of family violence and abuse against Strait Islander] women\nAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and girls have emphasised\nand children is reduced at least by 50 per\nthat effective resolution of\ncent, as progress towards zero.’46 But as the\nAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social systemic issues will demand\nJustice Commissioner points out, achieving\nlarge-scale prevention\nthis goal will require a significant reorientation\nstrategies grounded in our\nof government policy and practice, given\ncurrent investments are ‘disproportionately self-determination and\nweighted to intervention’ rather than to\noriented toward healing and\n‘addressing the underlying causes of harms’\nthat are present in the lives of Aboriginal and restoration of our social\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)`\n- [Page 79]\nElement 5 — Prevention\ntechniques and settings\nThis element presents guidance on the most promising techniques for prevention of\nmen’s violence against women, and the priority settings and sectors for action.\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)`\n- [Page 90]\nPriority\bsettings\band\bsectors\b\nfor\baction\nAddressing a complex social problem like The settings/sectors listed in Table 1 are\nviolence against women requires a large-scale those in which prevention activities (systemic\neffort, engaging the largest possible number and programmatic) are occurring across the\nof people across institutions, organisations country, and where there is a strong evidence\nand systems with sustained and meaningful base to draw from and existing resources\ninterventions that encourage shifts in the way to use.\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)`\n\n## KPIs, Targets, and Where They Are At\n\n- It is the direct result of patriarchal\nvictims of sexual assault recorded\nsystems which privilege the needs, interests\nby police in 2020, 23,153 victims,\nand behaviours of men over women, and\nor 84 per cent, were female.64\nwhich permeate many aspects of Australian\nƒ Women are far more likely than men to\nsociety and institutions.69 Gender inequality\nexperience sexual violence (and other\nis also created by heteronormativity and\nforms of violence) from an intimate\ncisnormativity – attitudes, norms and\npartner, and with more severe impacts.65\nbehaviours that suggest that heterosexuality\nƒ Women are also more likely than men\nis the normal or preferred sexual orientation\nto report fearing for their lives, and\nand cisgender is the normal and preferred\nmore likely to be injured so severely\ngender identity – which then have an impact\nthat they require hospitalisation, or are\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)`\n- Although just 12 per cent of Australiansxv There is a particular tendency for violence\nbelieve that domestic violence is a private against women with disabilities to be\nmatter to be handled by the family, and denied or downplayed, particularly\n7 per centxvi believe that ‘women who where it occurs in institutional and\nare sexually harassed should sort it out service settings and is reclassified using\nthemselves rather than report it’,120 only euphemisms such as ‘abuse’, ‘service\n45 per cent would act if a male friend incident’, ‘neglect’, ‘maltreatment’ or\ntold a sexist joke about women.121 For ‘misconduct’.127 A similar effect can be\nAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander seen in aged care settings when providers\nwomen or women of colour, experiences classify sexual assaults against older\nof violence can be trivialised as a result women as having ‘no impact’, or where\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)`\n- E SS E NTIAL E SS E NTIAL\nƒ Essential\bactions\b1–4\bare\bdesigned\b\nto\btarget\bthe\bfour\bspecific\b Promote women’s Address the intersections\nindependence and between gender inequality\ngendered drivers of violence.\ndecision-making and other forms of systemic\nEach of these four essential actions in public life and and structural oppression\naddresses a specific gendered driver. relationships and discrimination,\nƒ \bEssential\bactions\b5–8\baddress\b and promote broader\nsocial justice\nthe broader social context – the\ngender\binequality\band\bother\b\nforms of structural and systemic A CT ION 3 A CT ION 7\n. .\ndiscrimination\band\boppression\bthat\b\nE SS E NTIAL E SS E NTIAL\ngives rise to violence against women.\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)`\n- [pages 102,103]\natistically significant\nnorms and supporting and reinforcing other\nas a predictor of government action to\nprevention activities.267 When connected to\nredress violence against women.’265 In\nprograms of work that use the approaches\naddition to the direct impact they have on\noutlined in Element 5, they also provide\nviolence against women, women’s rights\na powerful signal to other sectors and\nand feminist movements have also achieved\nsettings, and to the public as a whole, of\nchange across a range of interconnected\nthe necessity of primary prevention, and\nissues, including economic rights, access\nthe role that policy and legislative reform\nto childcare, reproductive rights and\ncan play in the national approach.\nservices and political representation, all of\n102 CHANGE THE STORY (SECOND EDITION)\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)`\n- This is acknowledged by the\n‘[Aboriginal and Torres\nClosing the Gap target: ‘by 2031, the rate of\nall forms of family violence and abuse against Strait Islander] women\nAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and girls have emphasised\nand children is reduced at least by 50 per\nthat effective resolution of\ncent, as progress towards zero.’46 But as the\nAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social systemic issues will demand\nJustice Commissioner points out, achieving\nlarge-scale prevention\nthis goal will require a significant reorientation\nstrategies grounded in our\nof government policy and practice, given\ncurrent investments are ‘disproportionately self-determination and\nweighted to intervention’ rather than to\noriented toward healing and\n‘addressing the underlying causes of harms’\nthat are present in the lives of Aboriginal and restoration of our social\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)`\n- Systems of privilege and oppression\ncompound to drive high levels of violence,\nare not separate but interdependent; social\nand particular forms of violence, against\ninequities result not from single distinct\nwomen and girls with disabilities.182\nfactors, but from intersections of different\nƒ Rigid gender norms, together with\nsocial positions, power relations and\ncisnormativity, and heteronormativity,\nexperiences.179 Intersectionality also recognises\nproduce norms and stereotypes that\nthat a person can experience both power\ndevalue the bodies, identities and\nand oppression simultaneously, because relationships of lesbian, bisexual and trans\nthere are many forms of each,180 and that women, generate homophobia, biphobia,\npeople can experience power and privilege and transphobia, and drive and normalise\nin some contexts and oppression in others. violence against these women.183\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)`\n- [Page 3]\nContents\nAcknowledgements 7\nForeword 8\nIntroduction\b 10\nViolence against women – a serious, prevalent and preventable human rights abuse 10\nThe need for an ongoing and strengthened national approach to prevention 12\nThe purpose of Change the story: Australia’s national policy framework 14\nThe focus of Change the story: the spectrum of violence against women 15\nUnderstanding a population-level approach 16\nWhat’s changed in this second edition?\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)`\n- [Page 4]\nElement\b3\b—\bTwelve\bactions\bto\bprevent\bviolence\bagainst\bwomen\b 59\nEight essential actions to address the gendered drivers of violence and change the social\ncontext in which it occurs 60\nFour supporting actions to address the reinforcing factors 67\nElement\b4\b—\bPrinciples\bof\ba\bnational\bapproach\bto\bprimary\bprevention\b\b 72\nKey principles 72\nElement\b5\b—\bPrevention\btechniques\band\bsettings\b 79\nPrevention techniques 79\nPriority settings and sectors for action 90\nThe importance of a whole-of-setting/sector approach 98\nElement\b6\b—\bCritical\binfrastructure\bfor\ba\bnational\bapproach\bto\bprevention\b 100\nKey elements of an effective prevention infrastructure 101\nElement\b7\b—\bStakeholder\broles\band\bresponsibilities\b 107\nThe responsibility of governments to prevent violence against women 108\nThe critical role of non-government organisations and networks 111\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)`\n- The first edition of\nintimate partners.19 The killing of children Change the story was developed as a priority\nis also strongly correlated with a history of action under the National Plan’s Second\ndomestic/family violence.20 These data reflect Action Plan 2013–16, and was adopted as\nglobal patterns, with upwards of 850 million Australia’s national policy framework for\nwomen experiencing some form of sexual prevention by all Australian governments\nor physical violence in their lifetime, with under the Third Action Plan 2016–19.\nsignificant impacts on their physical and mental\nThe aim of this framework (in both its first and\nhealth and wellbeing.21 In addition to these\nsecond editions) is the primary\bprevention of\ndirect impacts, the threat of violence limits\nviolence against women – that is, to change the\nall women’s quality of life and reduces their\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)`\n- The relatively large\nthan the perpetrator, which tends to (and widening) gaps between women and\nmake the perpetrator invisible, and men in Australia on measures such as labour\ndetract from a focus on what drives force participation, wage equality, income\nmen to use violence against women.\nlevels and representation in professional,\nAn Australian study found that 59.8 per\ntechnical, managerial and decision-making\ncent of incident-based media reporting\nroles138 are structural barriers to lifting\non violence against women included no\nwomen’s social and economic status.\ninformation about the perpetrator.132\nThe result of these structural and normative\nfactors is that men have much greater control\nin public life, not only over power, resources\nDriver 2.\nand decisions generally, but specifically over\nmen’s control of decision-making\nthe kinds of policies and laws that directly\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)`\n- When a culture\nand their rights in male-dominated\bsettings\b\nof men’s drinking is encouraged and\nand\bcontexts\bwhere\bmale\bpeer\brelations\b\nembedded in spaces that are male-\npredominate and work to protect men’s\ndominated, such as a workplace or a\npower and privilege (see also Driver 4, page\nsporting club, there can be pressure to\n44).203 These environments and cultures\nembody aggressive or competitive male\ncan weaken and often seriously undermine\npeer relations – and gendered drinking\nprosocial behaviour towards women and\ncultures that emphasise male conquest and\nundermine attempts to prevent gendered\naggression can affect the ways individual\nviolence and uphold gender inequality.\nmen behave under the influence of alcohol.\nƒ Weakening of prosocial norms has been These dynamics can result in a particularly\nshown to occur during natural disasters and significant weakening of prosocial\ncrises.\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)`\n- Nevertheless,\nit is an important first step in the overall\ntask of addressing violence against\nwomen, and can help provide an\nenabling environment for more change-\noriented strategies.\nxxviii Substantive gender equality is a ‘combination of formal gender equality with equality of outcome,\nmeaning that equality in law, equal opportunities and equal treatment of women and men are\ncomplemented by equality in impact, outcome or result’ (eige.europa.eu/thesaurus/terms/1401)\nElEmENt 2 — A PRImARy PREVENtION APPROAcH 57\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)`\n- In most incidents men are more In 2017–2018, Women are\nof sexual likely to perpetrate men committed more likely to be\nharassment, extreme forms homicides injured so\nthe harasser of violence that at five times the severely by\nwas male. result in rate of women. a male partner\nserious injury that they require\nor death. hospitalisation.\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)`\n- This does not\nharassment, the harasser was male.53 mean that most men in Australia are violent.\nƒ Men are more likely to perpetrate On the contrary, most are loving, caring\nextreme forms of violence that result and respectful partners, brothers, fathers,\nin serious injury or death.54 friends and colleagues.\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)`\n\n## Key Metrics\n\n| Values found | Evidence | Source |\n|---|---|---|\n| $21.7 billion, $323.4 billion, 21.7 billion, 323.4 billion | Exposure to violence $21.7 billion $323.4 billion\nagainst mothers or — 2015 estimate of — estimate of how\nother caregivers how much violence much violence against\ncauses profound against women women will cost the\nand long-term costs the Australian Australian economy\nharm to children. economy a year. by 2044–2045. | `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-summary-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-summary-AA.pdf)` |\n| 850 million | The first edition of\nintimate partners.19 The killing of children Change the story was developed as a priority\nis also strongly correlated with a history of action under the National Plan’s Second\ndomestic/family violence.20 These data reflect Action Plan 2013–16, and was adopted as\nglobal patterns, with upwards of 850 million Australia’s national policy framework for\nwomen experiencing some form of sexual prevention by all Australian governments | `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)` |\n| 84 per cent | It is the direct result of patriarchal\nvictims of sexual assault recorded\nsystems which privilege the needs, interests\nby police in 2020, 23,153 victims,\nand behaviours of men over women, and\nor 84 per cent, were female.64\nwhich permeate many aspects of Australian\nƒ Women are far more likely than men to\nsociety and institutions.69 Gender inequality\nexperience sexual violence (and other\nis also created by heteronormativity and\nforms of violence) f | `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)` |\n| 12 per cent, 45 per cent | Although just 12 per cent of Australiansxv There is a particular tendency for violence\nbelieve that domestic violence is a private against women with disabilities to be\nmatter to be handled by the family, and denied or downplayed, particularly\n7 per centxvi believe that ‘women who where it occurs in institutional and\nare sexually harassed should sort it out service settings and is reclassified using\nthemselves rather than report it’,120 only euph | `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)` |\n| $323.4 billion, 323.4 billion | If adequate action is not taken to\nbeen recognised through the commitment\nprevent violence against women, these costs\nto the development of a second National\nwill rise to $323.4 billion by 2044–45.23 The\nPlan. | `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)` |\n| $38 million, 38 million | Our Watch welcomes the first NSW Strategy to Prevent Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence\nPublished 7 May, 2024\nOur Watch welcomes the NSW Government’s commitment of $38 million to implement its first Strategy to Prevent Domestic, Family and Sexual violence. | `pages/news-latest.html (http://www.ourwatch.org.au/news)` |\n| $7.8 billion, 7.8 billion | Victim–survivors bear the primary burden\nThe joint Commonwealth/state and territory\nof this cost; however, Commonwealth, state\napproach, and the long term bipartisan\nand territory governments bear the second\nsupport that underpins the National Plan\nbiggest cost burden, estimated at $7.8 billion\nare as necessary now as they were when\na year in health, administration and social\nit was established in 2010, and this has\nwelfare costs. | `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)` |\n| 18 per cent | Consistent factors\na stranger since the age of 15.61 relating to gender inequality predict the\nprevalence of intimate partner violence,67\nƒ One in five Australian women\nwith significantly and consistently higher\n(18 per cent) has experienced sexual\nviolence since the age of 15.62 rates of violence against women in countries\ncharacterised by gender inequality and\nThe data also demonstrates that women are far\npoor human rights protections.68\nmore l | `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)` |\n| 25 per cent | One in their abuser, making it difficult to leave.147\nthree Australians believe ‘it is natural for a man\nMen who use violence report a greater sense\nto want to appear in control of his partner in\nof ownership of, or entitlement to, female\nfront of his male friends’;141 25 per cent think\npartners, and more rigid ideas on acceptable\n‘women prefer a man to be in charge of the\nfemale behaviour in relationships.148 Men\nrelationship’;xxii and 16 per ce | `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)` |\n| $22 billion, 22 billion | More detail about primary\nthe cost was estimated at $22 billion a year. prevention can be found on page 55. | `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)` |\n| 84 per cent, 89 per cent | [Page 27]\nMen’s use of violence: is also a common feature of the violence that\nsome members of the LGBTIQ community\nwhat we know\nexperience: 84 per cent of respondents in\nabout\bperpetration\b an Australian study of LGBTIQ people who\nhad experienced sexual assault said the\nviolence was perpetrated by a cisgender\nOverwhelmingly, violence against women in\nman, and while equivalent Australian data\nAustralia is perpetrated by men.x 51 In Australia:\nis | `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)` |\n| 95 per cent, 94 per cent | Analysis of the\nprevious (2012) Personal Safety Survey Violence against women is committed by\nsuggests that 95 per cent of men and men from across the social and economic\n94 per cent of women who experienced spectrum; men who choose to use some form\nviolence since the age of 15 did so at of violence,xii abuse or harassment against\nthe hands of a male perpetrator.52 a partner, former partner, a colleague or\nƒ In most incidents of workplace sexual | `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)` |\n| $50.8 million, 50.8 million | Similarly, the\nan unprecedented $50.8 million over four years for\npresence of our media team has given us the ability\nprevention activities.\nto engage with national media, raising the profile of\nMore generally across Australia, while there are some prevention in the public conversation and promoting\nvery promising signs of political engagement and policy a deeper understanding of the evidence base that\nprogress on this issue, there is much more w | `other-pdfs/Change-they-Story-Three-Years-On-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-they-Story-Three-Years-On-AA.pdf)` |\n| 84 per cent | It is the direct result of patriarchal\nvictims of sexual assault recorded\nsystems which privilege the needs, interests\nby police in 2020, 23,153 victims,\nand behaviours of men over women, and\nor 84 per cent, were female.64\nwhich permeate many aspects of Australian\nƒ Women are far more likely than men to\nsociety and institutions.69 Gender inequality\nexperience sexual violence (and other\nis also created by heteronormativity and\nforms of violence) f | `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)` |\n| 12 per cent, 45 per cent | Although just 12 per cent of Australiansxv There is a particular tendency for violence\nbelieve that domestic violence is a private against women with disabilities to be\nmatter to be handled by the family, and denied or downplayed, particularly\n7 per centxvi believe that ‘women who where it occurs in institutional and\nare sexually harassed should sort it out service settings and is reclassified using\nthemselves rather than report it’,120 only euph | `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)` |\n| 850 million | The first edition of\nintimate partners.19 The killing of children Change the story was developed as a priority\nis also strongly correlated with a history of action under the National Plan’s Second\ndomestic/family violence.20 These data reflect Action Plan 2013–16, and was adopted as\nglobal patterns, with upwards of 850 million Australia’s national policy framework for\nwomen experiencing some form of sexual prevention by all Australian governments | `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)` |\n\n## Key Achievements\n\n- This is acknowledged by the\n‘[Aboriginal and Torres\nClosing the Gap target: ‘by 2031, the rate of\nall forms of family violence and abuse against Strait Islander] women\nAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and girls have emphasised\nand children is reduced at least by 50 per\nthat effective resolution of\ncent, as progress towards zero.’46 But as the\nAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social systemic issues will demand\nJustice Commissioner points out, achieving\nlarge-scale prevention\nthis goal will require a significant reorientation\nstrategies grounded in our\nof government policy and practice, given\ncurrent investments are ‘disproportionately self-determination and\nweighted to intervention’ rather than to\noriented toward healing and\n‘addressing the underlying causes of harms’\nthat are present in the lives of Aboriginal and restoration of our social\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)`\n- [Page 3]\nContents\nAcknowledgements 7\nForeword 8\nIntroduction\b 10\nViolence against women – a serious, prevalent and preventable human rights abuse 10\nThe need for an ongoing and strengthened national approach to prevention 12\nThe purpose of Change the story: Australia’s national policy framework 14\nThe focus of Change the story: the spectrum of violence against women 15\nUnderstanding a population-level approach 16\nWhat’s changed in this second edition?\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)`\n- [Page 4]\nElement\b3\b—\bTwelve\bactions\bto\bprevent\bviolence\bagainst\bwomen\b 59\nEight essential actions to address the gendered drivers of violence and change the social\ncontext in which it occurs 60\nFour supporting actions to address the reinforcing factors 67\nElement\b4\b—\bPrinciples\bof\ba\bnational\bapproach\bto\bprimary\bprevention\b\b 72\nKey principles 72\nElement\b5\b—\bPrevention\btechniques\band\bsettings\b 79\nPrevention techniques 79\nPriority settings and sectors for action 90\nThe importance of a whole-of-setting/sector approach 98\nElement\b6\b—\bCritical\binfrastructure\bfor\ba\bnational\bapproach\bto\bprevention\b 100\nKey elements of an effective prevention infrastructure 101\nElement\b7\b—\bStakeholder\broles\band\bresponsibilities\b 107\nThe responsibility of governments to prevent violence against women 108\nThe critical role of non-government organisations and networks 111\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)`\n- The first edition of\nintimate partners.19 The killing of children Change the story was developed as a priority\nis also strongly correlated with a history of action under the National Plan’s Second\ndomestic/family violence.20 These data reflect Action Plan 2013–16, and was adopted as\nglobal patterns, with upwards of 850 million Australia’s national policy framework for\nwomen experiencing some form of sexual prevention by all Australian governments\nor physical violence in their lifetime, with under the Third Action Plan 2016–19.\nsignificant impacts on their physical and mental\nThe aim of this framework (in both its first and\nhealth and wellbeing.21 In addition to these\nsecond editions) is the primary\bprevention of\ndirect impacts, the threat of violence limits\nviolence against women – that is, to change the\nall women’s quality of life and reduces their\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)`\n- It is the direct result of patriarchal\nvictims of sexual assault recorded\nsystems which privilege the needs, interests\nby police in 2020, 23,153 victims,\nand behaviours of men over women, and\nor 84 per cent, were female.64\nwhich permeate many aspects of Australian\nƒ Women are far more likely than men to\nsociety and institutions.69 Gender inequality\nexperience sexual violence (and other\nis also created by heteronormativity and\nforms of violence) from an intimate\ncisnormativity – attitudes, norms and\npartner, and with more severe impacts.65\nbehaviours that suggest that heterosexuality\nƒ Women are also more likely than men\nis the normal or preferred sexual orientation\nto report fearing for their lives, and\nand cisgender is the normal and preferred\nmore likely to be injured so severely\ngender identity – which then have an impact\nthat they require hospitalisation, or are\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)`\n- Although just 12 per cent of Australiansxv There is a particular tendency for violence\nbelieve that domestic violence is a private against women with disabilities to be\nmatter to be handled by the family, and denied or downplayed, particularly\n7 per centxvi believe that ‘women who where it occurs in institutional and\nare sexually harassed should sort it out service settings and is reclassified using\nthemselves rather than report it’,120 only euphemisms such as ‘abuse’, ‘service\n45 per cent would act if a male friend incident’, ‘neglect’, ‘maltreatment’ or\ntold a sexist joke about women.121 For ‘misconduct’.127 A similar effect can be\nAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander seen in aged care settings when providers\nwomen or women of colour, experiences classify sexual assaults against older\nof violence can be trivialised as a result women as having ‘no impact’, or where\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)`\n- E SS E NTIAL E SS E NTIAL\nƒ Essential\bactions\b1–4\bare\bdesigned\b\nto\btarget\bthe\bfour\bspecific\b Promote women’s Address the intersections\nindependence and between gender inequality\ngendered drivers of violence.\ndecision-making and other forms of systemic\nEach of these four essential actions in public life and and structural oppression\naddresses a specific gendered driver. relationships and discrimination,\nƒ \bEssential\bactions\b5–8\baddress\b and promote broader\nsocial justice\nthe broader social context – the\ngender\binequality\band\bother\b\nforms of structural and systemic A CT ION 3 A CT ION 7\n. .\ndiscrimination\band\boppression\bthat\b\nE SS E NTIAL E SS E NTIAL\ngives rise to violence against women.\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)`\n- [pages 98,99,100]\nnge\ntime, resourcing and leadership; where it is not that will support and increase the\nimmediately possible, early-stage prevention effectiveness of settings-based work\nactivities implemented by an individual ƒ involve all those who engage with the\norganisation within a setting/sector can be an setting, including leadership, staff,\nimportant first step, but should be framed as volunteers, the audience the setting\nbuilding blocks towards a longer-term vision serves, and those outside the setting\nthat involves a whole-of-setting approach. who provide it with services or support\nƒ consider the levers or mechanisms that can\nsupport, enable and systematise prevention\nactivity across the setting or sector, beyond\nthose that exist in individual organisations.\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)`\n- [pages 102,103]\natistically significant\nnorms and supporting and reinforcing other\nas a predictor of government action to\nprevention activities.267 When connected to\nredress violence against women.’265 In\nprograms of work that use the approaches\naddition to the direct impact they have on\noutlined in Element 5, they also provide\nviolence against women, women’s rights\na powerful signal to other sectors and\nand feminist movements have also achieved\nsettings, and to the public as a whole, of\nchange across a range of interconnected\nthe necessity of primary prevention, and\nissues, including economic rights, access\nthe role that policy and legislative reform\nto childcare, reproductive rights and\ncan play in the national approach.\nservices and political representation, all of\n102 CHANGE THE STORY (SECOND EDITION)\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)`\n- These have included:\nAs noted in the earlier discussion of the environmental\n• a ‘roadshow’ series of presentations to key\ncontext for Change the story, there remain significant gaps\nstakeholders explaining the purpose of Change\nin the prevention practitioner workforce across Australia.\nthe story and giving examples of prevention practice,\nExpanding and scaling up primary prevention to the extent\nwhich was delivered to over 340 participants across\nenvisaged in the framework requires resourcing not only\nmost jurisdictions in Australia during 2016\nfor projects and programs themselves, but also for the\n• development and delivery of various forms of\ndevelopment of a workforce that has the infrastructure,\ntraining to over 800 participants across Australia.\nsystems, capacity and support to implement such\nThis has included:\napproaches on the ground.\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-they-Story-Three-Years-On-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-they-Story-Three-Years-On-AA.pdf)`\n- Our Watch backs Commissioner’s call for greater coordination and action to prevent violence against women and children\nPublished 3 Nov, 2025\nOur Watch welcomes the Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Commissioner’s second Annual Report to Parliament on the Progress of the National Plan to End Violence against Women and Children 2022-2032.\n Source: `pages/news-latest.html (http://www.ourwatch.org.au/news)`\n- Our Watch highlights increased rates of gender-based violence during football finals\nPublished 24 Sep, 2025\nAhead of the AFL Grand Final, Our Watch is calling for the sporting community to address the increased risk of violence facing women during football finals.\n Source: `pages/news-latest.html (http://www.ourwatch.org.au/news)`\n\n## Key Issues, Risks, and Recommendations\n\n- Effective\nissues of domestic violence35 improved and that\nrespectful relationships education, therefore, uses the\nschools made positive steps towards developing a\neducation system as a catalyst for generational and\nculture of gender equality and respect throughout\ncultural change by engaging schools as education\nthe school.36 The evaluation of this pilot not only\ninstitutions, as workplaces and as community hubs,\nreconfirmed the evidence base in Change the story,\nin order to address the drivers of gender-based violence\nbut it also helped inform the recommendations\nand create a future free from such violence.18\nof the Victorian Royal Commission into Family\nIn recent years, an increasing number of schools and Violence, and in turn the statewide roll out of\neducation departments across Australia have engaged respectful relationships education in Victoria.\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-they-Story-Three-Years-On-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-they-Story-Three-Years-On-AA.pdf)`\n- [Page 4]\nElement\b3\b—\bTwelve\bactions\bto\bprevent\bviolence\bagainst\bwomen\b 59\nEight essential actions to address the gendered drivers of violence and change the social\ncontext in which it occurs 60\nFour supporting actions to address the reinforcing factors 67\nElement\b4\b—\bPrinciples\bof\ba\bnational\bapproach\bto\bprimary\bprevention\b\b 72\nKey principles 72\nElement\b5\b—\bPrevention\btechniques\band\bsettings\b 79\nPrevention techniques 79\nPriority settings and sectors for action 90\nThe importance of a whole-of-setting/sector approach 98\nElement\b6\b—\bCritical\binfrastructure\bfor\ba\bnational\bapproach\bto\bprevention\b 100\nKey elements of an effective prevention infrastructure 101\nElement\b7\b—\bStakeholder\broles\band\bresponsibilities\b 107\nThe responsibility of governments to prevent violence against women 108\nThe critical role of non-government organisations and networks 111\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)`\n- [pages 102,103]\natistically significant\nnorms and supporting and reinforcing other\nas a predictor of government action to\nprevention activities.267 When connected to\nredress violence against women.’265 In\nprograms of work that use the approaches\naddition to the direct impact they have on\noutlined in Element 5, they also provide\nviolence against women, women’s rights\na powerful signal to other sectors and\nand feminist movements have also achieved\nsettings, and to the public as a whole, of\nchange across a range of interconnected\nthe necessity of primary prevention, and\nissues, including economic rights, access\nthe role that policy and legislative reform\nto childcare, reproductive rights and\ncan play in the national approach.\nservices and political representation, all of\n102 CHANGE THE STORY (SECOND EDITION)\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)`\n- This is acknowledged by the\n‘[Aboriginal and Torres\nClosing the Gap target: ‘by 2031, the rate of\nall forms of family violence and abuse against Strait Islander] women\nAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and girls have emphasised\nand children is reduced at least by 50 per\nthat effective resolution of\ncent, as progress towards zero.’46 But as the\nAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social systemic issues will demand\nJustice Commissioner points out, achieving\nlarge-scale prevention\nthis goal will require a significant reorientation\nstrategies grounded in our\nof government policy and practice, given\ncurrent investments are ‘disproportionately self-determination and\nweighted to intervention’ rather than to\noriented toward healing and\n‘addressing the underlying causes of harms’\nthat are present in the lives of Aboriginal and restoration of our social\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)`\n- [Page 9]\nBuilding on a history of Australian leadership in prevention\nthis second edition of Change the Children 2010–2022,3 itself a joint,\nstory builds on a long history of bipartisan commitment of all\nadvocacy, leadership and action by Australian governments.\nfeminists, women’s and other community\nReflecting Australian leadership on\norganisations, violence against women\nthis issue, Change the story has been\nservice providers and specialists,\nrecognised in many international contexts\ngovernments, and community members\nas a world-leading contribution to the\nwith a shared commitment to ending\nfield of prevention, and has inspired work\nviolence against women.\ntowards similar approaches in other\nthe first prevention framework launched countries.i this second edition aims\nin Australia was developed by VicHealth to continue and strengthen Australia’s\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)`\n- Specifically, nation states are\nto the situation of women and girls who\nrequired to take positive steps to eliminate\nencounter multiple and intersecting forms of\nall forms of violence against women.5\ndiscrimination and violence and experience\nHuman rights–based frameworks are an higher rates of all forms of violence, making\nanchor for engaging nation states in their specific recommendations for Australia to\nresponsibilities regarding violence against address violence experienced by Aboriginal\nwomen, as enshrined in international and Torres Strait Islander women, women\ninstruments and agreements.6 While with disabilities, women who are incarcerated,\nother stakeholders also need to play a women from refugee, asylum seeker and\npart, the need (and obligation) for the migrant backgrounds, and older women.14 On\nstate to take primary responsibility for gender equality more broadly, the CEDAW\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)`\n- For many women, these experiences\nwomenix is aligned with the United Nations are influenced by the intersections between\n(UN) Declaration on the Elimination of the gendered drivers of violence against\nViolence against Women (1993), which says women and other systemic and structural\nthat violence against women is defined as ‘any forms of social injustice, discrimination\nact of gender-based violence31 that causes or and oppression, all of which have what the\ncould cause physical, sexual or psychological CEDAW Committee calls ‘an aggravating\nharm or suffering to women, including threats negative impact’ and affect the prevalence\nof harm or coercion, in public or in private and dynamics of violence against women.38\nlife’.32 This declaration indicates that such\nWhile each woman’s experience of violence,\nviolence is specifically ‘directed against a\nabuse or harassment is unique, there are\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)`\n- Pornography also plays a\npornography use is associated with\nsignificant role in shaping expectations\nless progressive attitudes about gender\nand understandings about gender\nroles,161 a belief that women are sex\nroles, sex and consent – particularly for\nobjects,162 rape myth acceptance,163\nyoung people who are still forming their\nmen’s use of sexually aggressive\nideas and attitudes about these issues\nbehaviour164 and strong attachment to\nand are accessing pornography often\ntraditional male ideology and roles.165\nyears before they start having sexual\nthe gendered drivers of violence against relationships.167\nwomen – in particular the condoning of\nviolence against women (driver 1), men’s\nxxiv For more information about the relationship between pornography and the gendered drivers, see\nOur Watch’s background paper Pornography, young people, and preventing violence against women.\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)`\n- [pages 43,44,45]\nbout gender\nroles,161 a belief that women are sex\nroles, sex and consent – particularly for\nobjects,162 rape myth acceptance,163\nyoung people who are still forming their\nmen’s use of sexually aggressive\nideas and attitudes about these issues\nbehaviour164 and strong attachment to\nand are accessing pornography often\ntraditional male ideology and roles.165\nyears before they start having sexual\nthe gendered drivers of violence against relationships.167\nwomen – in particular the condoning of\nviolence against women (driver 1), men’s\nxxiv For more information about the relationship between pornography and the gendered drivers, see\nOur Watch’s background paper Pornography, young people, and preventing violence against women.\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)`\n- [pages 49,50]\nllying or\ncondoned to the same degree.188 Australian\nanti-social behaviour, which can become\nresearch suggests a clear link between media\nentrenched in adolescence, manifesting\nreporting and gendered attitudes and beliefs\nin aggressive or high-risk behaviour.195\nabout violence.\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)`\n- [Page 101]\nKey elements of an ƒ increasing the focus in political discourse\non men’s accountability for their use of\neffective\bprevention\b\nviolence, and on men’s responsibilities to\nchallenge and shift the drivers of violence\ninfrastructure\nƒ contributing to political and public debate\nin ways that recognise and reject gendered,\nSustained\bpolitical\bleadership cisnormative and heteronormative,\nracialised and classist power relationships\nStrong and sustained political will is crucial\nƒ speaking out where there is resistance\nto drive and sustain prevention approaches\nto addressing violence against women\nover the long term.262 Governments have\nas a gendered issue, or backlash to\nconsiderable power to directly enact gender equality more broadly\nsignificant policy change (see page 108 for\nƒ adopting robust approaches to\nmore information), but in addition to this,\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)`\n- 29\nAn urgent need for investment in, and development of, the prevention workforce ..................................31\nEmphasising the importance of a whole-of-setting approach .................................................................32\nReiterating the need to identify and prevent all forms of violence ............................................................33\nEmphasising the importance of a gender transformative approach ........................................................34\nDeveloping our capacity to take and promote an intersectional approach to prevention ........................36\nExploring violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, and developing\na specific approach to prevention ..........................................................................................................38\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-they-Story-Three-Years-On-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-they-Story-Three-Years-On-AA.pdf)`\n- [Page 3]\nContents\nAcknowledgements 7\nForeword 8\nIntroduction\b 10\nViolence against women – a serious, prevalent and preventable human rights abuse 10\nThe need for an ongoing and strengthened national approach to prevention 12\nThe purpose of Change the story: Australia’s national policy framework 14\nThe focus of Change the story: the spectrum of violence against women 15\nUnderstanding a population-level approach 16\nWhat’s changed in this second edition?\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)`\n- The first edition of\nintimate partners.19 The killing of children Change the story was developed as a priority\nis also strongly correlated with a history of action under the National Plan’s Second\ndomestic/family violence.20 These data reflect Action Plan 2013–16, and was adopted as\nglobal patterns, with upwards of 850 million Australia’s national policy framework for\nwomen experiencing some form of sexual prevention by all Australian governments\nor physical violence in their lifetime, with under the Third Action Plan 2016–19.\nsignificant impacts on their physical and mental\nThe aim of this framework (in both its first and\nhealth and wellbeing.21 In addition to these\nsecond editions) is the primary\bprevention of\ndirect impacts, the threat of violence limits\nviolence against women – that is, to change the\nall women’s quality of life and reduces their\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)`\n\n## Corporate Values and Operating Culture\n\n- One in their abuser, making it difficult to leave.147\nthree Australians believe ‘it is natural for a man\nMen who use violence report a greater sense\nto want to appear in control of his partner in\nof ownership of, or entitlement to, female\nfront of his male friends’;141 25 per cent think\npartners, and more rigid ideas on acceptable\n‘women prefer a man to be in charge of the\nfemale behaviour in relationships.148 Men\nrelationship’;xxii and 16 per centxxiii believe ‘men\nwho adhere to or support expressions of, or\nshould take control in relationships and be\nideas about, masculinity that are focused\nthe head of the household’.142 Male control\non control and dominance are also more\nand dominance are frequently represented\nlikely than other men to sexually assault\nas a normal or inevitable part of heterosexual\nwomen outside the family and relationship\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)`\n- For sexual assault, domestic and family violence counselling service call 1800 RESPECT (\n1800 737 732\n) for 24/7 phone and online services.\n Source: `pages/contact.html (http://www.ourwatch.org.au/contact)`\n- [pages 21,22,23,24]\nnd individuals within\nlgBtIQ people have been identified as\nthose communities, informed by specific\nrigid gender norms, heteronormativity,\nand nuanced frameworks and gender\nand cisnormativity.44 gender inequality\ntransformative approaches, and includes\nis underpinned by heteronormativity and\nactions to address the connections\ncisnormativity – attitudes, norms, and\nbetween relevant drivers, particularly the\nbehaviours that value heterosexuality\nrelationship between rigid gender roles,\nas the normal or preferred sexual\nsocially dominant forms of masculinity,\norientation, and cisgender as the normal\nheteronormativity, cisnormativity, and\nand preferred gender identity – which\nhomophobia.\nthen have an impact on how people\nElEmENt 1 — uNdERstANdINg VIOlENcE AgAINst WOmEN: AN ExPlANAtORy mOdEl 21\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)`\n- [Page 94]\nPRIORITY SETTINGS AND SECTORS\nSports clubs and institutions\nSetting/sector Rationale Activity\nSports clubs and These\bsettings\bare\bimportant\b Examples of policy, regulatory and\ninstitutions because sport: legislative\bactions\bto\benable\band\b\nsupport\bsetting/sector-based\bactivity:\n„ is seen by many as a\nsignificant to Australia’s „ Embed a focus on prevention of\nThis sector includes\nnational identity violence against women in the\nlocal and regional\n„ exerts a powerful influence constitutions and formal policies\nclubs, professional\nof national and state leagues and\non gender relations, attitudes,\ninstitutions, state associations/governing bodies.\nbehaviours and social norms,\nand national\nand as role models athletes „ Embed behaviours and attitudes\nprofessional sporting\nand sporting professionals that support gender equality\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)`\n- It is the direct result of patriarchal\nvictims of sexual assault recorded\nsystems which privilege the needs, interests\nby police in 2020, 23,153 victims,\nand behaviours of men over women, and\nor 84 per cent, were female.64\nwhich permeate many aspects of Australian\nƒ Women are far more likely than men to\nsociety and institutions.69 Gender inequality\nexperience sexual violence (and other\nis also created by heteronormativity and\nforms of violence) from an intimate\ncisnormativity – attitudes, norms and\npartner, and with more severe impacts.65\nbehaviours that suggest that heterosexuality\nƒ Women are also more likely than men\nis the normal or preferred sexual orientation\nto report fearing for their lives, and\nand cisgender is the normal and preferred\nmore likely to be injured so severely\ngender identity – which then have an impact\nthat they require hospitalisation, or are\n Source: `other-pdfs/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf (https://assets.ourwatch.org.au/assets/Key-frameworks/Change-the-story-Our-Watch-AA.pdf)`\n- Although just 12 per cent of Australiansxv There is a particular tendency for violence\nbelieve that domestic violence is a private against women with disabilities to be\nmatter to be handled by the family, and denied or downplayed, particularly\n7 per centxvi believe that ‘women who where it occurs in institutional and\nare sexually harassed should sort it out service settings and is reclassified using\nthemselves rather than report it’,120 only euphemisms such as ‘abuse’, ‘service\n45 per cent would act if a male friend incident’, ‘neglect’, ‘maltreatment’ or\ntold a sexist joke about women.121 For ‘misconduct’.127 A similar effect can be\nAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander seen in aged care 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