When mandatory sentencing was introduced for agg people smuggling offences the whole system ground to a halt because no one would plead guilty. Things only got moving because the CDPP committed to taking pleas for lesser offences. Do we really want this approach for DV offences?

I am resigning from the Greens Political Party due to all of the woke

an action item to coordinate a working group with the purpose of developing an options paper for presentation at the next interdepartmental committee meeting

Part 2

From q&a

More (actual independent) experts yelling at politicians so they look sheepish and in trouble please.

Part 1 because of limits

sounds familiar doesn't it

this is what the US did in Fallujah and then they just killed everyone left

APAN supports the Palestine solidarity encampments that are springing up on university campuses across the continent in response to academic institutions’ complicity with, and normalisation of, Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

apan.org.au/media_release/…

Too much onus on women leaving violence to continue to provide details to Centrelink and for Child Support. This needs correcting years ago and right now would be helpful.

No wonder we face crises in so many women's services. #budget2024 has a lot of catching up to do Jim Chalmers MP Katy Gallagher ACOSS Terese_NCSMC
womensagenda.com.au/latest/only-3-…

Mandatory sentencing is never a solution to anything.

ALP men piling on a young Indigneous woman, women’s safety advocate and NFP founder is not the flex they think it is.

Need we remind you, Amanda, of the Centrelink forms you're currently forcing victims of violence to fill out

senator penny wrong when i was homeless due to family violence the only thing that kept me going was the dream of a labor budget 🙏

many of you will live lives defined by instability punctuated by moments of real crisis, violence & / or deprivation [soaring oratory mode engage] but should be proud to know that yr real & preventable suffering was harnessed to deliver a 2nd 👏 ALBANESE 👏 LABOR 👏 SURPLUS 👏

Today, AUWU CBR is at the Workers’ Memorial Day service honouring workers who have lost their lives at work or because of unsafe work practices. As always, we remember Josh Park-Fing, who died aged 19 at an unsafe Work For The Dole worksite in 2016.