UTS Panel: Tanya Plibersek, Jess Hill & Anne Summers

Yet in May 2024 - two years into the National Plan to End Violence against Women and Children (2022–2032) - Prime Minister Anthony Albanese declared a ‘national crisis’, amid a 30 per cent spike in intimate partner homicide. Public confidence has since frayed. There is a widespread sense that not nearly enough is being done.  

In 2024, the Albanese Government convened an expert-led rapid review to strengthen prevention approaches under the National Plan. Eighteen months on from the delivery of that report, and as planning gets underway for the Second Action Plan, two members of the expert panel - Dr Anne Summers AO and Industry Professor Jess Hill - will join the Minister for Social Services, Tanya Plibersek, for a robust discussion about what has been done since the report was delivered, and what must come next.

With renewed calls for a Royal Commission into domestic, family and sexual violence, and statistics that remain stubbornly high, this conversation will grapple with the hardest question of all: what would it actually take to reduce - even ultimately end - gendered violence within a generation? What legislative, policy and system-level changes are realistically on the table in 2026, and where are the limits of the current approach?

With numerous women already killed by men this year, this discussion is urgent. Join us for a frank conversation about the Government’s next steps, the contested pathways forward, and an opportunity for audience members to put their questions directly to Minister Plibersek.