Prevention through education systems
The Minister for Education, Training and Skills advocate for the national Education Ministers Meeting to task the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority with developing a standalone national relationships and sexuality education curriculum via a co-design process with children and young people.
The South Australian government resource the Education Standards Board to undertake the following work program:
a. amending the Standards and/or Evidence Guide to mandate delivery in all South Australian schools of relationships and sexuality education content included in the Keeping Safe: Child Protection Curriculum but not covered in the Australian Curriculum
b. undertaking a co-design process with children and young people from all 3 schooling sectors to develop a relationships and sexuality education exemption model to be promoted across all 3 schooling sectors, with specific attention to:
- the types of information to be provided to parents/guardians and students about relationships and sexuality education
- the age at which an exemption process should no longer apply (and in this regard, taking particular account of the age of consent to sexual activity)
- the inclusion of a requirement for schools and/ or systems to provide the Education Standards Board with data on the number of students who are opted out of receiving relationships and sexuality education
c. developing a best-practice response to disclosures of domestic, family and sexual violence framework for schools, taking into account existing laws and reporting obligations and:
- interaction and alignment with the South Australian Risk Assessment and Management Framework and the central entry-point service (see Recommendations 14 and 46)
- information sharing between schools/systems, and information sharing with other jurisdictions.
The Minister for Education, Training and Skills appoint a Ministerial Advisory Committee to
advise the Minister on potential reforms to the legal framework operating under section 141(2)
of the Education and Children’s Services Act 2019 (SA) and regulation 33(1) of the Education and Children’s Services Regulations 2020 (SA), together with addressing the lack of any legal framework operating in relation to relationships and sexuality education exemptions in Catholic and independent schools.
Prevention through a whole-of-community approach
The South Australian government, in partnership with local government, community members and community organisations, design and establish a primary prevention saturation model for South Australia. The model should:
a. be informed by the Ballarat Model and the Our Town model
b. be piloted in 2 communities in South Australia, selected based on de-identified data input together with community readiness
c. be supported by adequate resourcing over a 4-year period, which includes consideration of the impact on local service providers
d. be designed in consultation with the community
e. build on existing prevention strategies, including those run by community and volunteer organisations
f. include programs focused on the development of social supports for men, parenting programs and mental health support.
Prevention through regulation
The Minister for Consumer and Business Services progress the following provisions
contained in the Liquor Licensing (Miscellaneous) Amendment Bill 2025 (SA):
a. the paramount object of the Liquor Licensing Act 1997 (SA) is to ensure that the sale and supply of liquor occurs in a manner that minimises the harm and potential for harm caused by the excessive or inappropriate consumption of alcohol
b. the minimum 2-hour ‘safety-pause’ delay to prevent the rapid delivery of alcohol
c. the restrictions on alcohol sale and delivery timelines.
The Minister for Consumer and Business Services amend the Liquor Licensing (Miscellaneous) Amendment Bill 2025 (SA) so that the term ‘domestic violence’ in the Liquor Licensing Act 1997 (SA) is replaced with ‘domestic, family and sexual violence’.
Following the passage and implementation of the Liquor Licensing (Miscellaneous) Amendment
Bill 2025 (SA), the South Australian Liquor and Gambling Commissioner:
a. monitor and evaluate how the amendments to the Liquor Licensing Act 1997 (SA) are operating in practice, recommending further reform if required
b. conduct a review of all available regulatory levers to ensure that alcohol regulation is occurring in a way that achieves the paramount consideration of harm minimisation.
The Commissioner of Police develop and implement a strategy to further disrupt the supply of alcohol into dry Aboriginal communities. The strategy must:
a. be developed in partnership with community leaders and relevant stakeholders
b. identify practical solutions such as the installation of additional Safe-T-Cams to cover common approaches to dry communities
c. adopt harm minimisation as the strategy’s primary objective.
Gambling
The South Australian government advocate for the Australian government to accept and progress the recommendations made by the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs in the You Win Some, You Lose More report, including, but not limited to, the phased approach to a comprehensive ban on all forms of advertising for online gambling.
The Minister for Consumer and Business Services:
a. progress amendments to section 3 of the Gambling Administration Act 2019 (SA) so that the paramount object of the Act is the minimisation of harm and potential harm associated with the misuse and abuse of gambling activities, consistent with the changes to the Liquor Licensing Act 1997 (SA)
b. undertake a review of the available regulatory levers under the Gambling Administration Act 2019 (SA) to ensure that gambling regulation is occurring in a way that achieves the paramount consideration of harm minimisation and progress further reform as appropriate.
Pornography and online harm
The Australian government ensure that the eSafety Commissioner is appropriately resourced and supported to continue in its role as Australia’s independent online safety regulator, so that it may best meet its mandate to minimise online harm and improve online safety for Australians into the future.
The South Australian government work with the eSafety Commissioner on the ongoing monitoring and evaluation of online and technology-facilitated harms experienced by children and young people, and to taken reasonable steps to minimise that harm. These harms include but are not limited to:
a. access to pornography, particularly pornography depicting acts of domestic, family and sexual violence and criminal acts
b. recommender systems and algorithms that expose children and young people to harmful content
c. influencer content openly encouraging acts of domestic, family and sexual violence, and violence against women and children, such as some manosphere and incel content.
Strengthening South Australia’s anti-discrimination and anti-vilification frameworks
The Attorney-General resource and undertake a comprehensive review of South Australia’s anti-discrimination and anti-vilification frameworks, with a view to modernising the frameworks to ensure that they provide robust and future-focused protections against all forms of discrimination and vilification.
