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Lived experience

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Living experience
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Lived experience refers to a representation of the experiences and choices of a given person, and the knowledge that they gain from these experiences and choices. [Wikipedia]

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Guide

Better practice in responding to family violence handbook


This handbook serves as a practical guide to help energy and water businesses assess and strengthen their response to family violence. It reflects deepening understanding about family violence risk in essential services, including the importance of taking a Safety by Design approach – a framework to anticipate, detect and eliminate harm before it occurs.
Survey Report

The voice of Queenslanders with disability report 2025

E Ambrose, Rebekah Barker

This report provides insights gathered from Queenslanders with disability, family/carers and organisational representatives in 2025. Queenslanders shared what is going well and what is challenging across many aspects of their lives. There was progress in areas like health and safety and declines in employment and housing security.
Briefing paper

Policy brief: systemic policy responses to ‘whole-of-school’ wellbeing approaches

Prevention United Youth Ambassadors Group

Supporting student wellbeing in schools has become an urgent priority as the youth mental health crisis continues to grow. This policy brief explores the current literature supporting a ‘whole-of-school’ approach to wellbeing and presents policy recommendations aimed at driving meaningful, systemic change, recognising schools as key environments where mental health and wellbeing can be supported.
Report

With courage: South Australia’s vision beyond violence


The report is the culmination of a 12-month Royal Commission involving extensive engagement with South Australians impacted by domestic, family and sexual violence. It contains 136 recommendations which lay out a roadmap for the state in which domestic, family and sexual violence is no longer tolerated and no longer possible.
Conference proceedings

Mobilising disability research and evidence for policy impact


Proceedings of an event that brought together people with disability, advocates, policymakers, researchers, and leaders from the sector. The event, comprising short talks and group discussions, built on ideas from earlier events that focus on research led by people with disability, based on real experiences, and aimed at making a difference in policy and practice.