From ⁦Matt Bevan⁩ “Everyone agrees that this is a crisis, they just can’t agree on how much they’re will to spend to address it”. Also, a nuanced discussion about the drivers of violence. Beware anyone who tells you there is a simple solution. youtube.com/watch?v=p0_VTG…

“Women don’t ask” has always been a bullshit myth used to deflect from the real drivers of the gender pay gap.

Read this. We need to centre men in discussions of their violence, rather than using the passive voice of ‘violence against women’ or ‘dying from domestic violence’. This piece shows that men are violent towards their partners because they think that it delivers benefits:

Last year, I wrote this with my colleagues. No mainstream media outlet wanted to touch it.

We still call on our colleagues to use your voices to speak urgently for peace.

Thank you Croakey News for giving us a platform.

TRAUMA LASTS GENERATIONS.

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“The sector is outraged and rightly so,” says Zoe Daniel MP (she/her) “The Treasurer talks about ‘unavoidable spending’ … well women’s safety should have been ‘unavoidable spending’.”

Good to see focus on gender based violence on News Breakfast Please don't forget sexual violence Queensland Sexual Assault Network has 12 year olds on rape counselling wait lists. Critical underfunding Michael Rowland

The House of Representatives has unanimously passed a motion on the need for more resources for family and domestic violence prevention and response.

It’s a start.

Higher unemployment means most economic pundits will tell you the RBA will be pleased, because of its moderating impact on inflation. But so few ever make the leap to 'well, if we need unemployed people to help the economy, maybe we should pay them a liveable income?' 🫠

Listening over and over again to the tape - it was yelled, not on the microphone, it sounds like 'she supports terrorism' followed by 'she supports [terrorists] who want the destruction of Israel'. 'How dare you support terrorism' is heard a little later.

Me in The Saturday Paper We have to break this cycle. The lack of further investment in frontline services in the Budget was profoundly disappointing. Those who gathered last week at the crisis talks are determined that this must change.

This is disgraceful and disgusting.

‘In preparing this report, it became immediately apparent that there is currently no source of information which monitors government funding of domestic, family and sexual violence in Australia.’

Very hard to measure impact when you don’t have overall visibility, & where you’re

Breaking: Walkleys end media awards sponsorship deal with fossil fuel giant Ampol
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We have lift off! 🚀
Please sign + share our petition for frontline family, domestic and sexual violence services to be funded properly. 🙏

'This can no longer be the status quo. And if me talking truth to power about violence means I don’t have a job, then I would prefer to be talking that truth.”

Frontline workers and advocates seize a rare window to push for meaningful change. | Kristine Ziwica satpa.pe/3kjOv5M

This is very silly. It is not a cut in payments. If CPI was predicted to be 2.5% and it ends up 3% we wouldn't say Jobseekers are better off!

Welfare recipients to miss out on full $300 energy bill relief thanks to lower indexation abc.net.au/news/2024-05-1… via ABC Australia

I have been around a while myself, covering women’s economic security and safety, and I personally wouldn’t call frontline women’s safety services — in the context of a 28 percent increase of intimate partner femicides — “any group” for whom we could do more.

Last night's budget allocated no new funding for frontline services to stop violence against women, or for measures to hold perpetrators to account at all times. So I'm launching a petition right now, to push governments to do more. Please sign + share. Link in comments.

Mahmoud received a scholarship study anywhere in the world, and he chose the University of Melbourne. Devastatingly, he was killed by Israel's genocide last week.

Uni Melb's Gaza solidarity encampment renames Arts West to Mahmoud’s Hall.

MEDIA RELEASE - 'WEL welcomes the many modest initiatives outlined in the Federal Government’s comprehensive Women’s Budget Statement. “But many other Budget initiatives fall far short in funding adequacy or remain unfunded”.'
#budget2024 #auspol

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