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Anna Barnes
Communications Coordinator
Women's Legal Service Victoria
03 8622 0600 or 0422 609 224
Victoria

Women's Legal Service Victoria (WLSV) is a not for profit organisation that has been providing free legal services to women for over 30 years. We specialise in issues arising from relationship breakdown and violence against women. WLSV provides free and confidential legal information, advice, referral and representation to women in Victoria.

Australian Women Against Violence Alliance
(02) 6175 9924
National
Domestic Violence NSW
(02) 9698 9777
New South Wales
Dr Adele Murdolo
Executive Director
Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health
(03) 9418 0923 or 0438 823 299
Victoria

Prevention of violence against immigrant and refugee women including racism and discrimination; immigration policy; access to services; women's leadership; and engaging men and boys from immigrant and refugee communities.

Dr Michael Salter
Senior Lecturer (Criminology)
Western Sydney University
(02) 9772 6539 or 0420 377 742
New South Wales

Violence against women and children, primary prevention, organised abuse, online abuse & technology.

Dr Regina Quiazon
Senior Research and Policy Advocate
Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health
(03) 9418 0912 or 0431 264 786
Victoria

Prevention of violence against immigrant and refugee women including racism and discrimination; immigration policy; access to services; women's leadership; and engaging men and boys from immigrant and refugee communities.

Elise Thomas
Aboriginal Family Violence Prevention and Legal Service Victoria
1800 105 303
Mon-Fri 9am - 5pm
Victoria

We specialise in family violence matters, but our work also touches on numerous other forms of inequality faced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women including discrimination, child removal, over-representation in prisons, health inequalities and a raft of other issues.

Emily Maguire
CEO
Domestic Violence Resource Centre
(03) 9486 9866 or 0432 337 859
Mon - Thurs
Victoria

DVRCV helps the community respond to and prevent family violence. They provide training, publications, research and other resources.

Fiona McCormack
CEO
Domestic Violence Victoria
(03) 9921 0828
Victoria

Peak body for domestic violence services for women and children.

Hannah Grant
Media and Ambassador Program Manager
OurWatch
0448 844 930
National

Our Watch has been established to drive nationwide change in the culture, behaviours and power imbalances that lead to violence against women and their children.

Jen Hargrave
Women with Disabilities Victoria
(03) 9286 7800
Victoria

Violence against women with disabilities.

Jessica Gregory
Communications and Media Officer
Australia's National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety
(02) 8374 4000
National

ANROWS is an independent, not-for-profit research organisation established to produce evidence to support the reduction of violence against women and their children.

Joanne Sheehan-Paterson
Chair
National Association of Services Against Sexual Violence (NASASV)
National

The National Association of Services Against Sexual Violence (NASASV) is the peak body for organisations who work with victim/survivors of sexual violence and who work to prevent sexual violence.

Karen Willis
Executive Officer
Rape & Domestic Violence Services Australia
(02) 8585 0333 or 0419 438 907
National

R&DVSA Is a leading provider of counselling services for people affected by sexual assault and domestic violence, including 1800RESPECT – the national sexual assault, domestic and family violence counselling service. The organisation is also involved in training, consultation, research and development of prevention programs.

Kate Gibson
Health Promotion & Communications Officer
Women's Health East
(03) 9851 3700 or 0405 606 545
Victoria
Keran Howe
Women with Disabilities Victoria
(03) 9286 7800
Victoria

Violence against women with disabilities.

Kylie Inserra
Communications Coordinator
Womens Health Victoria
(03) 9664 9300 or 0409 119 101
Victoria

Primary prevention and gender equality, workplace programs, portrayal of women in the media and advertising, and women' sexual and reproductive health and wellbeing.

NATSLWA
National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women’s Alliance
0414 305 555 or 0438 888 694
National

Protect and advance the wellbeing and rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women.

Rebecca Dominguez
President
Bi-Alliance Victoria
0408 125 683
Victoria

Support and advocacy organisation for bisexuals in Victoria.

Rita Butera
Executive Director
Womens Health Victoria
(03) 9664 9300 or 0437 578 182
Victoria

Primary prevention and gender equality, workplace programs, portrayal of women in the media and advertising, and women' sexual and reproductive health and wellbeing.

Ruby Gaea NT
Northern Territory

Ruby Gaea (established in 1987) is the sole non-government provider of specialist post-initial trauma sexual assault counselling, education and training service in the Northern Territory.

Sally Goldner
Executive Director
Transgender Victoria
0407 946 242
Victoria
Sean Mulcahy
Co-Convenor
The Victorian Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby
0417 484 438
Victoria

LGBTI family violence.

Violeta Politoff
Academic Convenor
MAEVe (Melbourne Research Alliance to End Violence Against Women and their Children)
03 9035 7862
Monday - Wednesday
Victoria

MAEVe's aim is to bring together researchers from across the University of Melbourne in partnership with community, industry and government agencies, to tackle the problem of violence against women and their children.

Women’s Council for Domestic and Family Violence Services WA
(08) 9420 7264
Western Australia
Women’s Legal Services Australia
National

Women’s Legal Services Australia is a national network of community legal centres specialising in women’s legal issues. We are part of the National Association of Community Legal Centres (NACLC). The individual Member Centres regularly provide advice, information, casework and legal education to women on particularly family law and family violence matters.