Essential Report
Confidence in meaningful outcomes from Women’s Safety Summit
Q. The National Summit on Women’s Safety was held on September 6-7.
The main objective of the event was to guide the development of the next National Plan to end violence against women and children. Experts, advocates, service providers, and people with lived experience were brought together to explore issues faced by women and children experiencing violence in Australia.
How confident are you that the National Summit on Women’s Safety will result in meaningful changes to address violence against women and children in Australia?
Q | Total | Gender | Age Group | Federal Voting Intention | ||||||
Male | Female | 18-34 | 35-54 | 55+ | Labor | TOTAL: Coalition | Greens | TOTAL: Other | ||
Very confident | 14% | 18% | 9% | 21% | 17% | 4% | 12% | 16% | 17% | 13% |
Fairly confident | 24% | 23% | 26% | 29% | 24% | 21% | 24% | 29% | 24% | 19% |
Not that confident | 32% | 31% | 33% | 24% | 29% | 41% | 35% | 31% | 29% | 28% |
Not confident at all | 16% | 16% | 16% | 10% | 12% | 25% | 17% | 14% | 18% | 22% |
Unsure | 14% | 12% | 16% | 16% | 18% | 9% | 13% | 10% | 13% | 18% |
TOTAL: Confident | 38% | 41% | 35% | 50% | 41% | 24% | 36% | 45% | 40% | 32% |
TOTAL: Not confident | 48% | 47% | 49% | 34% | 41% | 67% | 51% | 45% | 47% | 50% |
Base (n) | 1,100 | 539 | 561 | 341 | 374 | 385 | 367 | 389 | 103 | 145 |
- Fewer people are confident that the recent National Summit on Women’s Safety will result in meaningful changes for women and children in Australia. 38% are very or fairly confident changes will happen, while 48% have less confidence.
- Just 9% of women say they are very confident that the summit will result in meaningful changes, compared to 18% of men.

COVID-19 RESEARCH
Read Essential's ongoing research on the public response to Covid-19.
Essential Report
In this week's report:
- Performance of Scott Morrison
- Performance of Anthony Albanese
- Preferred Prime Minister
- Views towards re-electing the federal Coalition government
- Party trust to handle issues
- Importance of Australia’s international reputation
- Scott Morrison’s impact on Australia’s international reputation
- Views towards Australia’s international reputation
Sign up for updates
Receive the Essential Report in your inbox.Essential Tags
2PP
Abbott
ALP
Anthony Albanese
Approval of opposition leader
Approval of Tony Abbott
asylum seekers
Australian economy
Bill Shorten
Carbon Tax
climate change
coronavirus
covid-19
economy
Education
Election
EMC
environment
ER
Essential Media
Essential Report
Federal Budget
Federal Government
federal politics
Gillard
Greens
Julia Gillard
kevin rudd
Labor
Labor Party
Liberal
Liberal Party
Liberals
mining
Nationals
Opposition leader
peter lewis
Polling
polls
Prime Minister
Scott Morrison
tony abbott
two party preferred
voting
Voting intention
Recent Comments
