Command Warrant Officer Gary Fuss has been working with White Ribbon for seven years and first got involved through the navy.

His work in the navy took him on a three-year stint in the Solomon Islands, working to stop domestic violence.

"The Solomon Islands is one of the countries with the highest levels of domestic violence against women and children," Mr Fuss said.

"We were trying to change policies to actually hold people accountable, so I got heavily involved in supporting that country - putting policies together which could actually charge people and send them to prison, because there was none.

"No one got let off, they all went to prison over there. That's what I think had a flow-on effect."

There were several lessons he took from his experience in the Solomon Islands.

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"I haven't stopped learning things," he said.

"The most important part that I could take out of the Solomon Islands back to Australia is they really started to get a lot of men involved.

"Over there because it's a smaller country and they've got smaller towns, the chiefs would make all of their men go to it... it's a little different here.

"Can you imagine forcing every man in Nowra to go to a training program? It just wouldn't work."

His interest in tackling issues around domestic violence began early, from his experiences as a farm kid.

"I'm originally from a little country town and a farm kid so you often saw the women not treated as nicely as they could and I could never understand that really," he said.

"So I was brought up with: respect everyone the same and treat someone the way you want to be treated.

"When I joined the navy many years ago we didn't have equality.

"If you asked me 15 years ago, would I want my two daughters to join the Australian navy, I would have said no way.

"If you asked me that today, I would say I would be happy for my daughters to join the navy, because it's changed a lot... it's not a boys club so much anymore."

Mr Fuss he had big ambitions as an ambassador but was realistic.

"What I would love to achieve is probably the same as every ambassador, zero," he said.

"Being a realist, that will probably never happen, unfortunately. But what I would like to see is women having the ability to speak out, women having the the ability to actually get assistance when they do.

"And for young men having the ability to speak out."