advocacy, projects & research

Submissions & presentations

We advocate for sexual and reproductive health for all Victorians by making submissions to various inquiries and presenting at numerous forums.

Recent submissions

Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) Shape of the Australian Curriculum: Health and Physical Education: Foundation to Year 10 (Draft for consultation, December 2012) Read response

Senate Inquiry into the involuntary or coerced sterilisation of people with disabilities in Australia Read response

Australian Bureau of Statistics review of the sex standard/ potential new gender standard Read response

Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) draft Shape of the Australian Curriculum: Health and Physical Education May 2012 Read response

Victorian Public Health and Wellbeing Plan 2011-2015 Read response

Victorian Health Priorities Framework 2012–2022: Metropolitan Health Plan Read response

Victorian Women’s Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2010-2014 Consultation Response Read response

Sexual Health & Family Planning Australia's (SH&FPA) submission to the National Men's Health Policy, endorsed by all eight state and territory member organisations (July 2009) Read submission

Parliamentary inquiry into the potential for developing opportunities for schools to become a focus for promoting healthy community living (July 2009) Read submission 

Victorian Law Reform Commission Inquiry into the Law of Abortion (November 2007) Read submission. FPV also contributed papers to the parliamentary debate, including Contraception in Victoria: Myth and reality and Mandatory Counselling.

Recent presentations and papers

Working Together: Building school capacity to deliver effective sexual health literacy programs, Department of Education and Early Childhood Development Senior Program Officer in Drug Education and Student Wellbeing meeting (Feb 2010) View presentation

Keeping it Simple: Learning from literacy to make sexuality education a classroom reality, FPV Sexuality Education Forum (Dec 2009) View presentation

Ready, Set, Go: Collaborating with community services to build school capacity to deliver sexuality education programs, Australasian Sexual Health Conference (Sept 2009) View presentation  

The Melbourne Declaration, endorsed by participants in the 'Abortion in Victoria: Where are we now? Where do we want to go?' Conference, held at The University of Melbourne (30 November 2007) View declaration

Making Choices: Sexual and reproductive health and rights, lecture to volunteers and staff of SH&FPA by Dr Gill Greer, Director-General, International Planning Parenthood Federation (2007) Read lecture