ABC | Australian Broadcasting Corporation |
ABS | Australian Bureau of Statistics |
ACCO | Aboriginal community-controlled organisations |
ACLO | Aboriginal Community Liaison Officer |
ACPO | Aboriginal Community Police Officer |
AFP | Australian Federal Police |
AGD | Attorney-General’s Department |
AHRC | Australian Human Rights Commission |
AIC | Australian Institute of Criminology |
AIHW | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
AIS | Aboriginal Interpreter Service |
ALA | Australian Lawyers Alliance |
ALHR | Australian Lawyers for Human Rights |
ALO | Aboriginal Liaison Officer |
ALRC | Australian Law Reform Commission |
ANROWS | Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety |
ANTAR | Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation |
ATSILS | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Service |
CAAC | Central Australian Aboriginal Congress |
CCC (WA) | Western Australian Corruption and Crime Commission |
CCYP | Commission for Children and Young People |
CHCP | Cultural Health and Competency Program |
the Commission | Independent Commission of Inquiry into Queensland Police Service responses to domestic and family violence |
the committee | the Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee |
DDP | Data Development Plan |
DDMM | Data and Digital Ministers Meeting |
DFSV | domestic, family and sexual violence |
DFV | domestic and family violence |
Dhelk Dja: Safe Our Way – Strong Culture, Strong Peoples, Strong Families | the Dhelk Dja Agreement |
DPP | Director of Public Prosecutions |
DSS | Department of Social Services |
DV | Domestic violence |
DVO | Domestic violence order |
FaCtS Study | Family and Community Safety for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples Study (2020) |
FDSV | Family, domestic and sexual violence |
First Nations Action Plan | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Action Plan 2023–2025 |
FNWLSQ | First Nations Women’s Legal Services Queensland |
HRA | Human Rights Act |
IBAC | Independent Board-based Anti-corruption Commission |
ICESCR | International Convention on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights |
ICRR | Institute for Collaborative Race Research |
IPV | Intimate Partner Violence |
JPP | Justice Policy Partnership |
Jumbunna | Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research |
Kunga | Kunga Stopping Violence Program |
Law Council | Law Council of Australia |
LECC | Law Enforcement Conduct Commission |
MBCP | men’s behaviour change programs |
the minister | Minister for Social Services |
MPR | Missing Persons Registry |
National Agreement | National Agreement on Closing the Gap |
National Guidelines | Our Watch, How to report on violence against women and their children, 2019 National Edition, 2019. |
National Inquiry | National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Girls and Women (Canada) |
NJP | National Justice Project |
National Plan | National Plan to End Violence Against Women and Children 2022–2032 |
National Reduction Plan | National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children 2010-2022 |
NAAFLS | North Australian Aboriginal Family Legal Service |
NAAJA | North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency |
NATSILS | National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services |
NCIS | National Coronial Information System |
NHMP | National Homicide Monitoring Program |
NIA | National Indigenous Agency |
NIAA | National Indigenous Australians Agency |
NITV | National Indigenous Television |
NLAP | National Legal Assistance Partnership |
NMPCC | National Missing Persons Coordination Centre |
NPY | Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjayjara |
NPY Women’s Council | Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjayjara Women’s Council |
NQWLS | North Queensland Women’s Legal Service |
NTPFES | Northern Territory Police, Fire and Emergency Services |
NTWLS | Northern Territory Women’s Legal Services |
ODPP | Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions |
PACC | Police Aboriginal Consultative Committees |
PACPAFV | Police and Aboriginal Community Protocols Against Family Violence |
PASAC | Police Aboriginal Strategic Advisory Council |
PC | Productivity Commission |
PJC HR | Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights |
PM&C | Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet |
QAIHC | Queensland Aboriginal and Islander Health Council |
QIFVLS | Queensland Indigenous Family Violence Legal Service |
QPS | Queensland Police Service |
REALS | Respondent Early Assistance Legal Service |
SBS | Special Broadcasting Service |
SCAG | Standing Council of Attorneys-General |
UN | United Nations |
UNDRIP | United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples |
WAS | Witness Assistance Service |
Women’s Safety Policy Forum | Wiyi Yani U Thangani (Women’s Voices) First Nations Women’s Safety Policy Forum |
UN | United Nations |
UNDRIP | United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples |
VACCA | Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency |
VALS | Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service |
VP | Victoria Police |
2SLGBTQQIA | Two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex and asexual |