Strategic priorities
- Keeping Australians safe from the impacts of COVID-19 and supporting social recovery including supporting the government’s health response to COVID-19 and the National Plan to transition Australia’s National COVID-19 Response. We provide strategic whole-of-government, accurate and timely advice on COVID-19 response, and leverage these relationships to quickly identify and resolve emerging issues.
- Gender equality and eliminating violence against women through our work on the Fourth Action Plan of the National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children 2020–22 and development of the successor to the National Plan, which will commence in mid‑2022.
- Mental health and suicide prevention reforms including supporting the government’s investment on system wide reforms to mental health services and working with the states and territories to deliver a comprehensive, coordinated, consumer-focused and compassionate mental health and suicide prevention system to benefit all Australians.
- Improve the wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people including implementing the new National Agreement on Closing the Gap, full implementation of Priority Reforms, options for a Voice for Indigenous Australians and constitutional recognition.
- Enhance the safety of children and young people including delivering a National Strategy to Prevent and Respond to Child Sexual Abuse (2021–2030), and supporting ongoing implementation of other recommendations of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
- Supporting the Government to deliver essential services to all Australians, including quality education, disability services, support payments and aged care services.
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