On 30th January 2026 and on behalf of the Partnership, our Chair and Principal Strategic Advisor provided a submission to the national House Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs’ Inquiry into the relationship between domestic, family and sexual violence and suicide. Our submission was informed by the collective insights of specialist family violence services, mental health and alcohol and other drug practitioners, and lived experience advisors. It drew on frontline practice, system-level observations, and lived experience expertise to examine how domestic, family and sexual violence, particularly coercive control, contributes to suicide risk and incidence.

Read the submission here

On Thursday, 27th November 2025 the BPIFVP’s PSA, Administrator, Lived Experience Advisor, and one of our members all attended RMIT’s forum in Melbourne. Some were participants and others presenters, but we all took away so much about reflections on the last nine years since the RCFV.

RMIT runs a Graduate Certificate in Family & Domestic Violence that may be suitable for you or your staff.