A dedicated Advisory Group has been established to support and provide advice to the Royal Commission into Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence. The group is chaired by the Commissioner, Natasha Stott Despoja AO.

View the Advisory Group's Terms of Reference (PDF, 217.9 KB).

Advisory Group Members

Arman Abrahimzadeh  OAMRosie Batty AOAlastair McEwin AM

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Dr Anu Mundkur Vicky Welgraven AM

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Arman is a domestic violence prevention advocate and an experienced Board Director, having served on a number of not-for-profit Boards in SA including Zahra Foundation Australia, of which he is also a Co-Founder.

A graduate of Uni SA’s Louis Laybourne Smith School of Architecture & Design, Arman currently works for a community housing provider. As an advocate for the prevention of family and domestic violence, he speaks about healthy relationships and early warning signs in abusive relationships at schools, workplaces, prisons and conferences.

He was elected as a Councillor in the City of Adelaide in 2018 and served as the Deputy Lord Mayor in 2022. In addition to his work in the community housing sector and the City of Adelaide, Arman is currently the Presiding Member of the City of Unley Council’s Business and Economic Development Advisory Committee.

Rosie became an outspoken crusader against family violence following the murder of her son, Luke, in February 2014.

Through her personal tragedy she stepped into a leadership role to advocate for victims impacted by family violence.  She was named Australian of the Year in January 2015 and made the most of her position of influence by advocating for systemic reform and gender equality.

She received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of the Sunshine Coast for her contribution to raising national awareness and action concerning family violence, and an Order of Australia in the 2019 Queen’s birthday honour’s list.

Rosie is also a Board Director for the Royal Women’s Hospital and Patron of the Australian Childhood Foundation and Doncare Community Services.

Alastair is a disability and human rights consultant with a strong record of service to the community through senior executive and Commonwealth statutory office holder roles.  Born profoundly deaf, Alastair has held numerous management and governance roles in the private, government and non‑government sectors.  He has served as Australia's Disability Discrimination Commissioner at the Australian Human Rights Commission, and as a Royal Commissioner with the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability.

Alastair’s current roles include Senior Fellow with the Grattan Institute, an independent organisation that produces public policy recommendations for change, and Professor of Practice in Disability at UNSW Sydney. He is also a member of Australia Post’s Stakeholder Council.

Anu has over 20 years of experience supporting governments, non-profits and the private sector on gender equality and social inclusion and addressing gender-based violence. She is an experienced applied policy researcher and skilled facilitator with many years of teaching and training on various gender-related issues. Widely published, Anu has co-authored and contributed to several respected white papers and has published in peer-reviewed journals.  She has served on South Australia's Premier Council for Women and represented Australian civil society organisations at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. In 2015, she was recognised for her work in SA's Women's Honour Roll. 

Anu works at Our Watch as Manager, Prevention Implementation. She leads two teams – one focused on building the capacity of media to improve reporting on violence against women and the other focused on creating equal, safe and respectful workplaces. Before joining Our Watch, she was the Head of Gender Equality at CARE Australia, an international non-government organisation and before that was seconded to the Australian Civil-Military Centre (ACMC) where she supported the development of national capabilities to bring a gender lens to prevent, prepare for and respond more effectively to humanitarian crises overseas.

Vicky is a proud Adnyamathanha woman from the Northern Flinders Ranges of South Australia, is an advocate and champion for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women.

In 2022, Mrs Welgraven was honoured in the ‘Australia Day 2022 Honours List’ and appointed as a Member (AM) of the Order of Australia for ‘Significant Service to Women through Social Welfare Organisations and to Indigenous Health’.

Vicky’s other roles include Co-Deputy Chair of Our Watch, Board Director of Power Community Limited (not-for-profit charity arm of the Port Adelaide Football Club), a Member of UN Women Australia and an Ambassador for Hutt Street Centre in South Australia.

In 2016 Vicky represented the ‘National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women’s Alliance’ at the UN Commission on the Status of Women in New York.

In 2015 was inducted into the South Australian Women’s Honour Roll and recipient of a ‘Gladys Elphick Award’ for “Excellence in Service to Women, Community and Sport”