National Strategy Advisory Group
The inaugural National Strategy Advisory Group was established to provide regular advice and input on the implementation of the National Strategy to Prevent and Respond to Child Sexual Abuse 2021-2030 (National Strategy) First National Action Plan and First Commonwealth Action Plan from 2022 to 2025.
The National Strategy is a national framework for preventing and responding to child sexual abuse in all settings, including within families, in institutions, and online.
The National Office is committed to consultation with non-government stakeholders over the National Strategy’s 10-year lifetime. A key way the National Office has engaged and partnered with non-government stakeholders to implement the National Strategy’s First Action Plans is through the National Strategy Advisory Group.
The National Office recognises the need to design and implement measures in a way that meets the diverse needs of all Australians, including the National Strategy’s priority groups. Our priority groups are:
- victims and survivors of child sexual abuse and their advocates
- children and young people and their support networks
- First Nations peoples
- culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities
- people with disability
- LGBTQIA+ people
- people living in regional and remote communities
The National Strategy Advisory Group was established to ensure the views and experiences of our priority groups, as well as non-government organisations, academics, community members and individuals, are embedded in the design, implementation and evaluation of the National Strategy’s measures. The National Strategy Advisory Group was supported by a specialist adviser – the former National Children's Commissioner.
Read Communiqués of the National Strategy Advisory Group
Inaugural membership list – co-chairs
- Deborah Tsorbaris – then Chief Executive Office – The Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare
- Professor Leah Bromfield – Director – Australian Centre for Child Protection, University of South Australia
Membership list – members
- Aimee Hele – Advocate for survivors of child sexual abuse
- Alison Quigley – Doctoral candidate in law; advocate for victims and survivors in sports
- Amanda Morgan – Advocate for survivors of child sexual abuse
- Bob Atkinson AO APM – Former Commissioner to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
- Bruce Morcombe OAM and Denise Morcombe OAM – Founders – The Daniel Morcombe Foundation
- Catherine Liddle – Chief Executive Officer – SNAICC – National Voice for our Children
- Christabel Chamarette – Clinical Director – SafeCare Inc
- Erin Lew Fatt – Deputy CEO – Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance Northern Territory
- Hetty Johnston AM GAICD – Founder of bravehearts; child protection and safeguarding specialist
- Jade Woods – Advocate for survivors of child sexual abuse
- Dr Janine Bush – Chief Executive Officer – National Centre for Action on Child Sexual Abuse
- Kathryn Fordyce – Chief Executive Officer – Laurel House
- Louise Lamont – Chief Executive Officer – Phoenix Support and Advocacy Service Inc
- Mary Karras – Chief Executive Officer – Ethnic Communities’ Council NSW
- Matilda Alexander – Chief Executive Officer – Queensland Advocacy for Inclusion
- Miranda Bain – Director of Therapy Services – Act for Kids
- Professor Patrick O’Leary – Chair of the Clinical Advisory Committee, Survivors & Mates Support Network (SAMSN); Co-Lead of the Disrupting Violence Beacon, Griffith University
- Phil Doorgachurn – Child safeguarding specialist
- Shelley Henāre – Youth Ambassador and survivor advocate
- Sonia Regan – Community Impact Manager – Children and Young People with Disability Australia
- Sonya Ryan OAM – Founder and Chief Executive Officer – The Carly Ryan Foundation
Specialist Adviser
- Anne Hollonds – then National Children’s Commissioner