Policy submissions

Submission to the Senate Standing Committees on Community Affairs – Community Affairs References Committee Response to the Inquiry into ParentsNext, including its trial and subsequent broader rollout.

Submission to the Senate Education and Employment Committees: The Appropriateness and Effectiveness of the Objectives, Design, Implementation and Evaluation of jobactive

Good Shepherd Australia New Zealand and inTouch Multicultural Centre Against Family Violence Submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs on The practice of dowry and the incidence of dowry abuse in Australia.

Submission to Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs: Social Services Legislation Amendment (Cashless Debit Card Trial Expansion) Bill 2018

Submission to the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee: Modern Slavery Bill 2018

Australian NGO Coalition Submission to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW 70^th Session): Australia's Compliance with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women

 Submission to the National Children's Commissioner: Convention on the Rights of the Child — Australia's Progress

2018-19 Pre-budget Submission to the Department of the Treasury, Australian Government

Submission to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW 62): Statement on Child, Early and Forced Marriage

Submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters: Electoral Legislation Amendment (Electoral Funding and Disclosure Bill, 2017)

Submission to the US Department of State: 2018 Trafficking in Persons — Report  Australia

Submission to Victoria Police — Strategy to reduce the harm from family violence, sexual offences and child abuse 2017 – 2022

Modern Slavery Inquiry Submission

NSW General Purpose Standing Committee No. 2 into Child Protection

Gender Equality Strategy for Victoria: Exposing the link between gender inequality and violence

Submission to the Finance and Public Administration References Committee - Domestic Violence and Gender Inequality

Fair Work Amendment (Gender Pay Gap) Bill 2015

Credit Card Interest Rates

Human Rights Charter Review

Inquiry into Economic Security for Women in Retirement

Submission to the Education State Schools Consultation

Fairwork Amendment Bill

Submission to The Senate Economics References Committee

Review into the Small Amount Credit Contract Laws

Good Shepherd supports the establishment of a National Education Evidence Base and suggests in this submission that data and evidence are powerful tools that can be used to better understand, respond to and progress educational equity.

Submission to the Productivity Commission Inquiry into the National Education Evidence Base