About
The National Women’s Safety Alliance brings together a diversity of voices, expertise and experience to inform and guide national policy on women’s safety. The NWSA, established in August 2021, connects the sector, experts, government, and victim-survivors with a shared vision to end violence against women. This will be achieved through consultation, research, and the collaborative development of expert policy advice to government.
Our mission
We are a National Alliance whose combined voices, expertise and experiences will inform policy to prevent and reduce violence against women.
Our purpose
We bring the diverse and under-represented voices of all people identifying as women to Australian Government decision making
Our priorities
Click here to see our Future Directions for the NWSA
Our values
Collaboration
Diversity
Fearlessness
Progress
Respect
Integrity
Our promise
To listen and act and work within an intersectional framework
Our vision
To create an Australia free of violence against women in one generation
Our Executive Director
Katherine Berney is the Executive Director of the National Women’s Safety Alliance.
Katherine is passionate about social, economic and safety equity for women and children.
NWSA under Katherine’s leadership is a trusted government advisor, and has influenced major federal policy reforms in Domestic, Family and Sexual violence; There is nothing more important than making Australia a safer place for all who make their home here.
2023 Women’s Agenda Emerging NFP leader award winner
Katherine is working towards her PhD in Sociology under Dr Michael J Walsh at the University of Canberra.
Our consultation process
Media contact: Katherine Berney, +61 498 642 584