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  • Welcome

    Family Planning Alliance Australia

    Reproductive and Sexual Health Policy and Advocacy

    Family Planning Alliance Australia is the nation’s peak body in reproductive and sexual health. It promotes advances in public health through policy insight and advocacy and represents leading health and education agencies across Australia.

    Family Planning Alliance Australia has issued the following statement on the global gag order issued by the President of the USA.

    FPAA statement opposing the Global Gag Rule 27Jan17

  • Services

    Clinical Services, Education & Training

    FPAA is an advocacy organisation and does not provide clinical or education services.  If you would like to visit a family planning clinic or enquire about education, please contact the family planning organisation in your area.

     

    ACT

    SHFPACT

    New South Wales

    Family Planning NSW

    Northern Territory

    Family Planning NT

    Queensland

    True Relationships and Reproductive Health

    South Australia

    SHine SA

    Tasmania

    Family Planning Tasmania

    Victoria

    Family Planning Victoria

    Western Australia

    Sexual Health Quarters
  • Access to Abortion


    FPAA Abortion Position Statement August 2018 FINAL
    Access to Abortion

  • LARC

    Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC) are contraceptive methods that require administration less than once a month. LARC methods can be described as ‘set and forget’ because they do not require the user to frequently remember to do something, such as take a daily pill or use a condom for contraception.

    They are highly effective in typical use and offer additional benefits, such as a reduction in heavy menstrual bleeding and menstrual pain. Further, international evidence shows that LARC has the potential to reduce unintended pregnancy and abortion rates. Despite this, LARC take-up is lower in Australia than in other developed countries. FPAA advocates the increased uptake of LARC in Australia. For more information on LARC and the role of Family Planning Alliance Australia, please refer to the documents on this page.


    Extended use of and ongoing access to LARCs during the COVID-19 pandemic FPAA
    FPAA Position Statement
    LARC Information
    Efficacy of Contraceptive Methods 2019
    Contraceptive card references 7 November 2019
    IUD National Training Standards
    Guidance for bleeding on progestogen-only LARC
    Implanon Alternative Sites position statement

  • Governance



    Directors

    Natasha Miliotos

    CEO, SHINE

    Natasha is privileged to be CEO of SHINE SA, a leading sexual health and relationship wellbeing organisation. Natasha leads with passion, alongside staff and participants, within an inspiring culture. She has worked in health, both government and profit for purpose organisations, for 25 years. Natasha brings a strong change management and agile leadership approach to her executive and board positions. Her passion is development of an inclusive community that respects human rights and responds with shared humanity. Natasha is constantly inspired by the resilience of the human spirit and the potential for growth and development in us all.


    Alice Evans

    Alice Evans

    Chief Executive Officer, True Relationships & Reproductive Health

    Alice Evans has been the CEO of True Relationships & Reproductive Health since mid-2013.  She is a qualified physiotherapist, holds a Bachelor of Physiotherapy, a postgraduate Certificate of Hydrotherapy, a Graduate Certificate of Executive Leadership and a Masters of Business Administration (receiving the MBA Director’s Leadership and Academic Excellence Awards).  Alice is also a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Alice has worked at a senior executive level across several sectors, including roles as Director and Executive General Manager of Business Services at GroundProbe and Management Consultant at Nautilus Rehabilitaiton Services. Alice is also the current Chair of Family Planning Alliance Australia and has held directorships at a number of organisations, bringing expertise in the areas of strategy and international business.


    Adj. Prof Ann Brassil


    Adj. Prof Ann Brassil


    CEO, Family Planning NSW

    Ann is CEO of FPNSW and has been since 1996, responsible for developing and directing four service streams: Clinical Services; Education Services; Research and Evaluation, and; International Development.  Ann’s career has incorporated many aspects of clinical, management and strategic public and population health service delivery in urban and rural  settings. As Director of BreastScreen NSW, she led this population screening programme in NSW and was a member of the BreastScreen Australia National Monitoring and Evaluation Committee and National Advisory Committee. In prior roles she developed and managed Mental Health Services, Community Health Services and Hospital -based Allied Health Services. Ann was an Executive of the Bankstown Lidcombe Health Service and Area Advisor for Community Health for South Western Sydney Area Health Service. Currently Ann is Deputy Chair of Northern Sydney Local Health District (LHD), is a Board member of NSW Kids and Families, and a member of NSW Ministry of Health NGO Advisory Committee She was a member of the NSW Health Grants Management Improvement Program Taskforce. Ann is a Clinical Psychologist, has a Masters in Clinical Psychology and a Masters in Business Administration (MBA).


    Tim Bavington - Executive Director of Sexual Health and Family Planning ACT

    Tim Bavinton

    Executive Director of Sexual Health and Family Planning ACT

    Tim Bavinton works as Executive Director of Sexual Health and Family Planning ACT (SHFPACT) in Canberra. Tim is graduate of the Australian National University, University of Canberra, and University of Technology Sydney, holding qualifications in secondary education, vocational education and training, youth work, community development, and non-profit management.  Tim has a broad ranging governance experience in the non-profit community services sector over 20 years, and completed the Australian Institute of Company Directors Course in 2015. Tim’s professional life has focused on young people’s health and wellbeing in various positions in education, health promotion, violence prevention, and victim support services.


    Robyn Wardle

    Chief Executive Officer, Family Planning Welfare Northern Territory

    Is a registered nurse and midwife with qualifications in reproductive and sexual health, human resources, teaching and assessment in the workplace. Robyn has a long standing interest in reproductive sexual health having worked within the Family Planning NGO sector for more than 25 years. Robyn first arrived in the Northern Territory in 1980 and feel in love with the culture and environment. Facing the NT’s unique challenge of its high burden of diseases and a constant moving workforce, Robyn has maintained commitment and enthusiasm in the sector. Robyn is currently the Chief Executive Officer for Family Planning Welfare Northern Territory and a Director for Family Planning Alliance Australia.


    Cedric Manen

    General Manager, Family Planning Tasmania

    Cedric was the Chief Executive Officer of the Migrant Resource Centre (Southern Tasmania) Inc for the past eight years, working with refugees and migrants in the areas of settlement, aged care, employment, youth and community development. Cedric has significant experience in organisational development across a range of sectors in a career spanning five continents. Cedric has completed post graduate studies at London Business School, undergraduate studies at Newcastle University, NSW and Sydney University of Technology, NSW. From 2008-2011 Cedric held the position of Chairperson of the Mental Health Council of Tasmania, the state peak body representing the mental health sector and consumer interests. From 2011-2014 Cedric was the Chairperson of the Settlement Council of Australia, the nation’s peak body representing humanitarian and refugee resettlement. In this capacity Cedric has provided advice to Federal and State Government ministers on multiculturalism through a range of ministerial advisory committees. For the past three years Cedric has represented Australia at the United Nations High Commission for Refugees in Geneva. Cedric was awarded the Tasmanian Community and Public Sector Manager of the Year Award at the Tasmanian Business Leader Awards in 2010, recognising his community sector management achievements. Cedric is one of nine Australians on the SBS Community Advisory Committee and was part of the Australian delegation to Eurovision in Denmark in 2014.


    Claire Vissenga

    CEO, Family Planning Victoria

    Claire joined Family Planning Victoria as CEO in November 2016. She is an experienced and successful CEO and acknowledged leader in the community health sector in Australia. Claire originally qualified in clinical psychology and practiced in a range of areas including child and adolescence, forensics, drug and alcohol and disability. Following a successful clinical carer, Claire moved to management and progressed to CEO in 2008. Since 2008, Claire has been the CEO in organisations providing services in community mental health and disability health and wellbeing. Claire is also a qualified and experienced non-executive director. Through this and her CEO roles, she has represented peak bodies in the health and community sector to state and commonwealth government, influenced health policy and advocated for change. She has also many years’ experience in the governance and management of public and private health services and has particular interest in clinical risk management.


    Debra Barnes

    CEO, SHQ

    Debra Barnes commenced as CEO of SHQ in early 2020. With over fifteen years’ experience in CEO, senior executive and board director roles across both corporate and for-purpose sectors, Debra has a demonstrated track record in delivering strategic leadership, transformational change and operational growth.
    Debra has spent the past seven years in executive roles at VisAbility Ltd where she led an organisation rebrand, restructuring of client services, and the implementation of innovative work practices. Prior to VisAbility, Debra was the CEO of the WA General Practice Network and founding CEO of Primary Care WA.
    Debra believes that diversity, inclusion and equality drives creativity and innovation. She advocates for freedom of choice, access to timely, quality healthcare, and for the sexual rights of everyone to be respected, protected and fulfilled.
    Debra is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management WA, a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and she has a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Western Australia.

    Tilly Mahoney

    Health Promotion Officer

    Tilly is privileged to be the Youth Representative on the Board of Family Planning Alliance Australia.

    Tilly is a recent graduate of the Master of Public Health from the University of Melbourne, in which she specialised in Sexual Health. Tilly is a Health Promotion Officer in Sexual and Reproductive Health at Women’s Health In the North, the dedicated women’s health service of the Northern Metropolitan Region of Melbourne. Her work focuses on improving the sexual and reproductive health of women in the region through a gendered, intersectional and capacity-building approach.

    Tilly is a passionate advocate for comprehensive sex education, gender equity and freedom of choice


  • Resources

    Please find relevant resources below:


    EC Factsheet
    Contraceptive Choices factsheet
    210812_IUD_National_Standards_Final
    Time for a national sexual & reproductive health strategy call to action (2008)
    Reproductive and Sexual Health Forum Summary report 2014
    Research Forum Sexual health Summary Report 2016 06 15
    Reproductive and Sexual Health in Australia (19Mb)
    FPAA Schools Education_Position Statement
    FPAA Reproductive Coercion Position Paper FInal September 2018
    Use of non-sterile gloves for insertion of the contraceptive implant
    Ulipristal Acetate Emergency Contraception and Breastfeeding
    Repeat dosing of oral hormonal contraceptives after vomiting
    LGBTIQA people and communities
    IUD and cervical cleansing
    Drug interactions topiramate
    Drug interactions griseofulvin
    4 day pill break FPAA

    AHHA

    AHHA – A Health System That Supports Contraceptive Choice

  • Contact

    Family Planning Alliance Australia

    ABN: 27 601 056 768
    Telephone: +61 400 404 929
    E-mail: [email protected]

    Mail:  878 Pearsall Street

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