In this week’s edition of the Weekly Round-Up, we feature articles both from victims and survivors of violence, and from services dedicated to preventing and eliminating violence against women. Despite the many differences in perspective and focus among these articles, one thing is clear: it will require the entire community, working together, if we are ever to succeed in preventing and eliminating violence against women.
Around the Country
- Gabrielle Upton, NSW Minister for Family & Community Services, has announced continued funding for the Keep Them Safe program
- ‘Domestic violence campaigners’ are arguing for family violence to be treated as a national emergency
- Domestic Violence Victoria has called for the implementation of high-risk management task forces across Victoria to better identify and monitor men who are a risk to women and children
- The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse is preparing for next month’s public hearings in Canberra
- Domestic and family violence survivors from rural Victoria have spoken out about the challenges they face dealing with violence in small communities
- Survivor and advocate Kay Schuback believes that in the last 12 months there has been a groundswell of support for drastic action to address rates of violence against women
- The Victorian Opposition has rejected a Bill before the state’s Legislative Assembly which services stated created the risk of criminalising women facing family violence
Around the World
- In Scotland, disturbing links have been drawn between experiences of domestic and sexual violence and death from drug overdose
- The University of Kentucky in the United States has created a new office aimed at reducing violence against women
- In Ireland, a woman has described feeling like a prisoner after the man convicted of sexually assaulting her walked free on a two year suspended sentence [TRIGGER WARNING: Description of sexual assault]
- In the United States, an 8-year-old boy had died trying to protect his older sister from being sexually assaulted
Research and Reports
- La Trobe University have published the results of their fifth National Survey of Australian Secondary Students and Sexual Health
**Articles published do not necessarily reflect the views of AWAVA and are included as items of interest only