Family Safety Pack
The Australian Government has developed a Family Safety Pack for men and women coming to Australia. It includes information on Australia’s laws regarding domestic and family violence, sexual assault and forced marriage, and a woman’s right to be safe.
The pack includes eight factsheets on the following topics:
- domestic and family violence
- sexual assault
- forced and early marriage
- family violence and partner visas
- dowry abuse
- female genital mutilation/cutting
- LGBTIQ relationships
- trafficking and slavery.
The pack also includes a low literacy storyboard.
Anyone accessing the pack is encouraged to share it with their community, organisation or family.
The family safety pack is a key initiative of the Second Action Plan of the National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children 2010-2022. Under the National Plan, the Australian Government is committed to understanding and addressing violence against women from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds and improving support available to CALD women and their children. More information on the National Plan can be found on the National Plan website.
The Family Safety Pack is translated into the 46 languages below:
- የኢትዮጵያ/አማርኛ (Amharic)
- عربي (Arabic)
- ܐܵܬܘܿܪܵܝܵܐ (Assyrian)
- Ichibemba (Bemba)
- বাংলা (Bengali)
(Burmese)- 简体中文 (Chinese - Simplified)
- 繁體中文 (Chinese - Traditional)
- Hrvatski (Croatian)
- دری (Dari)
- Thuɔŋjäŋ (Dinka)
- فارسی (Farsi)
- Français (French)
- Ελληνικά (Greek)
- ગુજરાતી (Gujarati)
- ازرگی (Hazaragi)
- हिन्दी (Hindi)
- Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
- Italiano (Italian)
(Karen)
(Khmer)- 한국어 (Korean)
- کوردی (Kurdish)
- Lingala (Lingala)
- Bahasa Melayu (Malay)
- മലയാളം (Malayalam)
- नेपाली (Nepali)
- Afaan Oromo (Oromo)
- پښتو (Pashto)
(Punjabi)- Ruáingga (Rohingya)
- Русский (Russian)
- Salon Krio (Sierra Leone Krio)
- Soomaali (Somali)
- Español (Spanish)
- اللغة العربية المتحدثة في السودان (Sudanese Arabic)
- Kiswahili (Swahili)
- Tagalog (Tagalog)
(Tamil)- తెలుగు (Telugu)
- ภาษาไทย (Thai)
(Tibetan)- ትግርኛ (Tigrinya)
- Türkçe (Turkish)
- اردو (Urdu)
- Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
Interpreters and Family Safety
Interpreters play a crucial role in ensuring that people who don’t speak English, or speak English as a second language, are able to access appropriate support and legal services. To complement the Family Safety Pack, the Australian Government has developed the following two factsheets to raise awareness of the role and responsibilities of interpreters in domestic violence situations:
- Interpreting in domestic violence situations (for interpreters)
- Interpreters and family safety (for front line workers in the domestic violence sector)
The purpose of the factsheets is to raise awareness of the importance of using professionally trained interpreters, how to effectively engage with interpreters, and awareness of interpreters’ responsibilities under the AUSIT Code of Ethics. They also include information on steps to take if there are concerns that an interpreter has acted inappropriately. The factsheet aimed at interpreters also includes information on training and professional development opportunities and available support services.
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