What's New
November - December 2008
- Symposium on ‘Meeting the needs of vulnerable children and families - dreaming the extraordinary, doing the extraordinary’
- Submission on the discussion paper, Australia's Children: Safe and Well. A National Framework for Protecting Australia's children
- National Families Week 2009
- 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 A National Framework for Protecting Australia's children more
- Assisting ‘Forgotten Australians’ who were in institutional care as children more
- Raising awareness about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander 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