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47        National Initiatives                                                                                                                                 To achieve positive outcomes for families, women and children by working across sectors to:
                                                                                                                                                               (a) improve the safety and wellbeing of children; and
                                                                                                                                                               (b) advance gender equality; and
                                                                                                                                                               (c) reduce violence against women and children; and
                                                                                                                                                               (d) support women affected by violence; and
                                                                                                                                                               (e) support trafficked people; and
                                                                                                                                                               (f) provide communication and information designed to change violence‑supportive attitudes and effectively reduce the incidence and impact of violence in Australia; and
                                                                                                                                                               (g) reducing child abuse and neglect; and
                                                                                                                                                               (h) support research and stakeholder organisations to assist in making the protection of children everyone's responsibility.
                                                                                                                                                               This objective also has the effect it would have if it were limited to providing funding or support:
                                                                                                                                                               (a) by providing medical services, family and maternity allowances, child endowment, unemployment and sickness benefits and benefits to students; or
                                                                                                                                                               (b) by engaging in measures to meet Australia's international obligations in relation to women, in particular obligations under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women; or
                                                                                                                                                               (c) by engaging in measures to meet Australia's international obligations in relation to children, in particular obligations under the Convention on the Rights of the Child; or
                                                                                                                                                               (d) by engaging in measures to meet Australia's international obligations in relation to persons with disabilities, in particular obligations under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; or
                                                                                                                                                               (e) by engaging in measures with respect to postal, telegraphic, telephonic, and other like services; or
                                                                                                                                                               (f) in a Territory; or
                                                                                                                                                               (g) by providing assistance to trading, financial and foreign corporations to which paragraph 51(xx) of the Constitution applies where the assistance relates to the existing activities of the corporations; or
                                                                                                                                                               (h) in relation to aliens or immigrants; or
                                                                                                                                                               (i) in relation to marriage; or
                                                                                                                                                               (j) in relation to divorce; or
                                                                                                                                                               (k) in connection with divorce—in relation to parental rights or the custody or guardianship of infants; or
                                                                                                                                                               (l) by providing grants of financial assistance to a State or Territory; or
                                                                                                                                                               (m) by engaging in measures that are peculiarly adapted to the government of a nation and cannot otherwise be carried on for the benefit of the nation; or
                                                                                                                                                               (n) in the exercise of the executive power of the Commonwealth.