Meg Clement-Couzner (she/they) is a social policy expert in disability and gender-based violence. She is currently Assistant Director with the policy branch of the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability, leading work on domestic, family and sexual violence. She is a Board member at Rape and Domestic Violence Services Australia. Meg previously worked at People With Disability Australia where she lead systemic advocacy on violence against people with disability, and the NDIS. Meg holds a PhD on the intersection of gender and economic justice.

Trish Doyle MP was elected to the NSW Legislative Assembly as the Member for Blue Mountains in 2015. She is a Member of the NSW Labor Party. In 2019 she was re-elected with a greater majority, winning nearly 65% of the vote in the Blue Mountains. From 2019 to 2021, Trish served as the Shadow Minister for the Prevention of Domestic Violence and Women, and the Shadow Minister for Emergency Services. In 2020 she was appointed deputy chair of the Parliamentary Joint Select Committee examining coercive control. In her inaugural speech in 2015, Trish spoke of her childhood experiences of living with family violence. This experience has shaped her views on the rights of women and children and the need for women’s refuges, women’s health centres, domestic violence support services and legal protections for victim-survivors.

Amani Haydar is an award-winning artist, lawyer, writer and advocate for women’s health and safety based in Western Sydney. Amani’s Mum, Salwa Haydar, was 1 of 83 women who lost their lives violently in Australia in 2015. Since then, Amani has engaged in storytelling and advocacy to honour her mother’s life and explore the personal and political dimensions of violence, trauma and grief. In 2018 Amani’s self-portrait titled Insert Headline Here was a finalist in the Archibald Prize. Since then her writing and illustrations have been published in Racism, Arab Australian Other, Sweatshop Women Volume Two, SBS Voices and ABC News Online. In 2020 Amani was a Finalist for the NSW Premier’s Woman of the Year Award and was named Local Woman of the Year for Bankstown in recognition of her advocacy against domestic violence and she is the recipient of the 2021 UTS Law Alumni Award. Amani serves on the Board of Bankstown Women’s Health Centre and her memoir The Mother Wound (Pan Macmillan) was released earlier this year.

Thelma Schwartz is the Principal Legal Officer of QIFVLS, an Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Community Controlled Organisation providing legal and non-legal support services to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander victims/ survivors of family violence and/or sexual assault. Thelma identifies as of Torres Strait Islander heritage alongside her German/Samoan and Papua New Guinean heritage. Thelma has extensive practice experiences working with and for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, in the provision of legal services in regional, rural and remote Queensland in her representation of Adults and Youths from both a victim and defendant legal practice perspective across multiple courts.