The Hon Tanya Plibersek MP in conversation with Jess Hill and Anne Summers AO
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Livestream link: https://utsmeet.zoom.us/j/84677573823 (will go live on Wed 18 Feb at 5.30pm AEDT)
The Australian Government has set an ambitious goal: to end violence against women and children within a single generation.
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.
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Lineup
The Hon Tanya Plibersek MP
Tanya Plibersek is the Minister for Social Services, and the Federal Member for Sydney. Between 2013 and 2019, Tanya was Deputy Leader of the Opposition and Deputy Leader of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party. From 2013 to 2016, Tanya was also the Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Development. From 2017 to 2022 Tanya was the Shadow Minister for Education and the Shadow Minister for Women. From 2022 to 2025, she was the Minister for the Environment and Water in the first Albanese Labor Government. Tanya served as a Cabinet minister in the Gillard and Rudd Governments. Tanya was Minister for Health, Minister for Medical Research, Minister for Housing, Minister for Human Services, Minister for Social Inclusion, and Minister for the Status of Women.
Jess Hill
Jess Hill is a Walkley-award winning investigative journalist, author and educator, and one of Australia’s most recognised and respected thinkers on gendered violence. She is the author of two Quarterly Essays, The Reckoning and Losing It, as well as presenting two highly acclaimed docuseries on SBS and a popular podcast on coercive control called The Trap. See What You Made Me Do was awarded the Stella Prize in 2020, and Jess was named marie claire Changemaker of the Year in 2023 and the NSW Premier’s Woman of Excellence in 2024. She lives with her husband, David, their gorgeous daughter, Stevie, and their Egyptian cat, Kitty Ponting, in Sydney.
Professor Anne Summers AO
Anne Summers AO is is Professor of Domestic and Family Violence at the UTS Business School. Professor Summers’ research into the impacts of domestic violence aims to support and inform the development of policies and strategies to significantly improve the lives of women and break the cycle of systemic disadvantage for future generations of Australian families. Her reports, The Choice: Violence or Poverty (2022) and The Cost of Domestic Violence and Women's Employment and Education (2025), have had wide-reaching impacts including influencing the federal government to make changes to the single parents' payment. Anne is a best-selling author and Walkley Award-winning journalist, with a long and highly accomplished career in the fields of politics, the media, business and the non-government sector in Australia, Europe and the United States.
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