Penny Drysdale

Penny Drysdale, Project Manager, Territory Families, Housing and Communities

Penny Drysdale has worked as lawyer, writer, project manager and policy adviser in the area of domestic, family and sexual violence (DFSV) for many years. She wrote the first Women’s Safety Strategy in Victoria in 2000-2003. In the NT she conducted a review of legislation and the justice response to domestic and family violence (DFV) in in 2022. She was the justice representative on the NT Government’s DFSV Inter-agency Co-ordination and Reform Office. For seven years she worked at the Arrernte-run Akeyulerre Healing Centre in Alice Springs. She is currently project manager developing and implementing a systemic DFV death review process for the NT.