Sign the Open Letter to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese

Sign the Open Letter to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese




18/02/2026

Signatories TO THe Open Letter TO PRIME MINISTER ANTHONY ALBANESE

Nerita Waight, Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service

Wayne Nannup, Chief Executive Officer, Aboriginal Legal Service of WA Limited

Karly Warner, Aboriginal Legal Service (NSW/ACT) Limited

Jake Smith, Chief Executive Officer, Tasmanian Aboriginal Legal Service

Shane Duffy, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services Queensland

Klynton Wanganeen, Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement (South Australia)

Jacqueline McGowan-Jones, Commissioner for Children and Young People Western Australia

Jodie Griffiths-Cook, ACT Public Advocate and Children and Young People Commissioner

Commissioner Natalie Lewis, Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children’s Commissioner

Shona Reid, Guardian for Children and Young People South Australia

Pat Turner, Lead Convenor, Coalition of Peaks

Catherine Liddle, Chief Executive Officer, SNAICC - National Voice for our Children

Daniel Daylight, CEO, Mounty Aboriginal Youth & Community Services 

John Leha, Chief Executive Officer, AbSec

Carly Stanley, CEO, Deadly Connections Community & Justice Services Ltd

Gary Field, Director of Operations and Strategy, Barang Regional Alliance

Marius Smith, CEO, Vacro

Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress

Geoff Scott, CEO, Just Reinvest NSW

Tania Wolff, President, Law Council of Australia

Tim Leach, CEO, Community Legal Centres Australia

Jade Lane, CEO, Change the Record

Jonathon Hunyor, Chief Executive Officer, Justice and Equity Centre

Alexis Goodstone, Acting CEO, Redfern Legal Centre

Selim Ucar, Humanity Matters - Street Youth Services

Lauren Stracey, Chief Executive Officer, Youth Action NSW

Blake Alan Cansdale, National Director, ANTAR

Emma Hearne & Ashleigh Buckett, Principal Solicitors, National Justice Project

Debbie Kilroy, Chief Executive Officer, Sisters Inside 

National Network of Incarcerated & Formerly Incarcerated Women & Girls

Jackie Mead, Chief Executive Officer, Knowmore Legal Service

Lesley Kirkwood, Principal Legal Officer, Family Violence Legal Service Aboriginal Corporation SA

Ian Murray, National President, Australian Lawyers Alliance

Alex Petkova, Managing Lawyer, Knowmore Legal Service

Jane Sanders, Principal Solicitor, The Shopfront Youth Legal Centre

Mat Tinkler, CEO, Save the Children Australia / 54 reasons

Gabrielle Bower, Solicitor , Thiyama-li FVPLS 

Sym’mon Andrews (Executive Officer) and Benjamin Graham (Principal Solicitor), Central Coast Community Legal Centre 

Damian Griffis, CEO, First Peoples Disability Network

 Timothy Roberts, President, NSW Council for Civil Liberties

Kerry Weste, Australian Lawyers for Human Rights

Kate Allingham, CEO, Economic Justice Australia

Caitlin Reiger, CEO, Human Rights Law Centre

Aysha Kerr & Devon Cuimara , Co-Chairs, Justice Reinvestment Network Australia

Jan Barnett rsj, Coordinator, Josephite Justice Network

Robert Stirling, CEO, Network of Alcohol and other Drug Agencies (NADA)

Jonathan Harms, Chief Executive Officer, Mental Health Carers NSW Inc

Carly Wallace, Director, The Disability Dialogue

David Petherick, Interim CEO, Disability Advocacy Network Australia (DANA) Limited

Skye Kakoschke-Moore, CEO, Children and Young People with Disability Australia (CYDA)

Inclusion Australia

Mija Gwyn, Head of YDAS, Youth Disability Advocacy Service (YDAS)

Australian Child Rights Taskforce

Adam Valavsori, Advocacy Lead, ARACY

Dr Astha Tomar, President, Royal Australia and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists

Dr Danielle McMullen, President, Australian Medical Association

Correna Haythorpe, President, Australian Education Union

Cara Varian, CEO, NSW Council of Social Service (NCOSS) 

Louise Giolitto, CEO, Western Australian Council of Social Service (WACOSS)

Devin Bowles, CEO, ACT Council of Social Service (ACTCOSS)

Adrienne Picone, CEO, Tasmanian Council of Social Service, TasCOSS

Dr Catherine Earl, Chief Executive Officer, South Australian Council of Social Service (SACOSS)

Aimee McVeigh, Chief Executive Officer, Queensland Council of Social Service

Siobhan Bryson, CEO, Weave Youth & Community Services

Daniel Wong, Acting CEO, NSW Family Services (Fams)

Natalie Ross, Acting CEO, Welfare Rights Centre (NSW)

Joy Connor & Lisa Wriley, Co-Leaders, Wellspring Community of Australia

Rumbi Mabambe, Executive Director, Chain Reaction Foundation 

Simon Katterl, CEO, Mental Health Lived Experience Peak Queensland

Kacey Teerma, Indigenous Rights Campaigner, Amnesty International Australia 

Emma Cother, Acting Executive Director, Justice Reform Initiative

Kristin O’Connell and Jay Coonan, Co-coordinators, Antipoverty Centre

Charlotte Jones, Chief Executive Officer, Mental Health Legal Centre

Kasy Chambers, Executive Director, Anglicare Australia

Isabelle Reinecke, Executive Director, Grata Fund

The Rt Rev Dr Matt Brain, Chair, Public Affairs Commission

Giancarlo de Vera, Chief Executive Officer, BEING Mental Health Consumers

Imogen Edeson, CEO, CREATE Foundation

Sarah Marland, Executive Director, Community Legal Centres NSW

Jenny Davidson, CEO, Council of Single Mothers and their Children

Bryanna Connell, CEO, Barwon Community Legal Service, Victoria

Queensland Advocacy For Inclusion (QAI)

Kerry Staines, CEO, First Nations Advocates Against Family Violence (FNAAFV) 

Chelsea McKinney, CEO, Community Legal WA

Matthew Panayi, CEO, Kimberley Community Legal Service

Kris Ramien and Zachary Armytage, Co-Convenors, National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Men’s Network 

Damian Stock, Chief Executive Officer, ARC Justice 

Hannah George, Chief Executive Officer, Katherine Women’s Information and Legal Service

Jennifer Tierney, Chief Executive, Oxfam Australia

Jacqueline Phillips, Acting CEO, Australian Council of Social Services (ACOSS) 

Kerryn Pennell, CEO, Australian Association of Social Workers 

Georgie Dent , CEO, The Parenthood 

Andrea Mason, Acting CEO, NPY Women’s Council

Anne Cregan, Partner, Gilbert + Tobin

Rosslyn Monro, Director, Community Legal Centres Queensland

Health Justice Australia 

Katherine Hayes, CEO, Youth Advocacy Centre

Candice Hughes, Principal Solicitor, YFS Legal

Tracey Harris , Executive Director, Sisters in Spirit Aboriginal Corporation

Emma Golledge, Director, Kingsford Legal Centre

Megan Spindler-Smith, Acting CEO, People with Disability Australia

Gabriela Christian-Hare, CEO, Australian Pro Bono Centre

Jody Nunn, CEO, Reconciliation WA

Judy Harrison, Co-convenor National Regional, Rural, Remote and Very Remote Community Legal Network

Mark Patrick, Managing Principal Solicitor, Australian Centre for Disability Law

Sarah Moulds, Volunteer Director, Rights Resource Network SA

Christine Robinson, CEO, Wirringa Baiya Aboriginal Women’s Legal Centre 

Elena Rosenman, CEO, Women’s Legal Centre ACT

Belinda Lowe, Campaigns and Communications Director, Grata Fund

Arlia Fleming, CEO, Central Tablelands and Blue Mountains Community Legal Centre

Ryan Gilmour, Coordinator, North West Community Legal Centre Inc.

Belinda Davis, Principal Solicitor, Northern Rivers Community Legal Centre 

Katie Green, Chief Executive Officer, Inner City Legal Centre

Justin Abi Daher, Principal Solicitor, Marrickville Legal Centre

Dr Fiona Allison, Associate Professor, Law and Justice Hub, Jumnbunna Institute for Indigenous Research

Leo Patterson Ross, Chief Executive Officer, Tenants’ Union of NSW

Megan Gilmour, Chief Executive Officer, Missing School Inc

Sophie Stewart, CEO, Social Reinvestment WA

Sarah Condon, Principal Lawyer, Crime & Advocacy, Robinson Gill Lawyers

Remberto Rivera, COO, Comm Unity Plus Services Ltd

Teya Dusseldorp, Executive Director, Dusseldorp Forum

Gemma Cafarella, President, Liberty Victoria (the Victorian Council for Civil Liberties) 

Louise Farroway, CEO, Illawarra Legal Centre

Peter Rankin, Director, Rankin Lawyers

Cybele Koning, CEO , Caxton Community Legal Centre

Dr Angela Argent, CEO, St Francis Social Services/Centre 360 Youth and Family Service

Dr Michele Lonsdale, Interim CEO, Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare

Darren Munday, CEO, Consumers of Mental Health WA

Penney Ferguson, CEO, First Nations Women’s Legal Services Qld

Charlotte Stockwell, Interim CEO, commUnity Plus Victoria

Jenni Smith, CEO, Northern Community Legal Centre Victoria 

Mel Dye, Chief Executive Office, Southside Justice

Gershon Nimbalker, National Director, Common Grace

Chris Carr SC, Chair, Criminal Bar Association Victoria

Jade Blakkarly, CEO, WIRE

Elena Pappas, CEO, Law and Advocacy Centre for Women

FIGJAM: Formerly Incarcerated Girls Justice Advocates Melbourne VIC

Ashleigh Newnham, Interim CEO, South-East Monash Legal Service

Jason Kanoa, CEO, Victorian Aboriginal Children and Young People’s Alliance

Kon Karapanagiotidis OAM, CEO, Asylum Seeker Resource Centre

Bill Rowlings OAM, CEO, Civil Liberties Australia

James Dowsley & Associates

Trans Justice Sydney

Debra Zanella, CEO, Ruah Community Services 

Sarah Toovey, Executive Manager, Ruah Legal Services 

Karen Fletcher, Executive Officer, Flat Out Inc.

Fay Mound, Acting National Director, UnitingCare Australia

Heather Corkhill, Legal Director, Equality Australia

Lee Carnie, CEO, Youthlaw

Mary Nega, Chief Executive Officer, Youth Affairs Council Victoria

Vanessa Graf, Managing Solicitor, Mulleun Mura Access to Justice Program (Women’s Legal Centre ACT)

Nadia Morales, CEO, Inner Melbourne Community Legal, and Police Accountability Project

Indigenous Social Justice Association - Melbourne 

Dash Heath-Paynter, CEO, Health Equity Matters

Tania Farha, Chief Executive Officer, intouch Multicultural Centre Against Family Violence

Dr Robyn Miller AM, CEO, MacKillop Family Services

Jackie Galloway, CEO, Peninsula Community Legal Centre

Sarah Rodgers, Director, Hume Riverina Community Legal Service

Kylie Wallace, Chief Executive Officer, Youth Affairs Council of Western Australia

Anoushka Jeronimus, Director of the Youth Law Program, WEstjustice

Julie Phillips / Chief Executive Officer, Disability Discrimination Legal Service

Rebecca Glen, Management Director, Centre for Women’s Economic Safety

Priscilla Brice, National Mental Health Consumer Alliance

Tony R. Milne, CEO, Carlton Neighbourhood Learning Centre

Vrinda Edan, CEO, Victorian Mental Illness Awareness Council

Sarah Moulds, Director, Rights Resource Network SA

Reverend Charissa Suli, President, Uniting Church in Australia

Reverend Bruce Moore, Uniting Church Australia, Queensland Synod

Josh Lourensz, Executive Director, Catholic Social Services Victoria

Mr Mark Gaetani, National President, St Vincent de Paul Society National Council 

Julie Edwards, Chief Executive Officer, Jesuit Social Services

Satya Tanwer, Executive Director, Strategy and Engagement, St Vincent de Paul Society NSW

The Very Rev’d Dr Peter Catt, Chair, Social Responsibilities Committee, Anglican Church (Southern Queensland)

Sue Cooke, CEP, Anglicare Southern Queensland

General Synod, Anglican Church of Australia

The Most Revd Jeremy Greaves, Archbishop - Anglican Church Southern Queensland

Tony McAvoy SC, Barrister

Simon Henderson, International Human Rights Lawyer

Dr Leah Williams, Senior Lecturer, School of Law, Society and Criminology, Faculty of Law and Justice, UNSW SYDNEY

Emma Buxton-Namisnyk, Senior Lecturer, UNSW Faculty of Law & Justice

Prof Daryl Higgins, Director, Institute of Child Protection Studies, ACU

Anna Copeland, Associate Professor in Law, Murdoch University, Senior Lawyer, SCALES Community Legal Centre

Mehera San Roque, Associate Professor, School of Law, Society and Criminology, Faculty of Law and Justice, UNSW

Helen Gibbon, Associate Professor, UNSW Faculty of Law and Justice

Thalia Anthony, Professor, Faculty of Law, UTS, Convenor, Criminal Justice Cluster

Elyse Methven, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, UTS, Co-convenor, Criminal Justice Cluster

Ingrid Matthews, Lecturer, Criminology and Law, University New South Wales

Noam Peleg, Associate Professor, UNSW Faculty of Law and Justice

Ruth McCausland, Associate Professor, UNSW Division of Societal Impact, Equity & Engagement 

Peta Ivy MacGillivray, Senior Research Fellow, UNSW Division of Societal Impact, Equity & Engagement 

Alyce McGovern, Associate Professor, School of Law, Society and Criminology, Faculty of Law and Justice, UNSW Sydney

Phillipa Evans, Senior Lecturer, UNSW

Marc De Leeuw, Associate Professor, School of Law, Society and Criminology, Faculty of Law and Justice, UNSW

Linda Steele, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney

Samara Hand, Lecturer, UNSW Faculty of Law & Justice

Luke McNamara, Professor, Centre for Criminology, Law and Justice & Faculty of Law and Justice, UNSW

Jane Wangmann, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, UTS

Emma Russell, Associate Professor of Crime, Justice and Legal Studies, La Trobe University

Professor Derek Chong, SMO, CEO QP, ABIT (Adventure Based Indigenous Therapy), Quantum Psychiatry

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