We are excited to announce more great speakers confirmed for Prevalent & Preventable, the AWAVA/Our Watch conference on the prevention of violence against women. In the Children and Young People as Agents of Change stream, we will have Jennifer Uwineza and Andrew Taukolo from #R4Respect in Logan City, Queensland, speaking on campaigns and cultural change [...]
Skill up at the AWAVA/Our Watch conference in September! Confirmed sessions include training on technology safety to be run by the Women’s Services Network (WESNET) and media training by Our Watch, to help people working in our sector improve the way we communicate with the media and get appropriate coverage of violence against women issues. [...]
The Federation of Community Legal Centres Australia has sent an open letter to the Prime Minister, calling for the government to act urgently to address the funding crisis in the community legal sector. AWAVA supports the letter, and calls for funding to ensure that victims/survivors of violence have adequate and affordable access to legal services. [...]
The Australian Women’s Health Network (AWHN) is calling on all political parties to support the vital work it does to improve health outcomes for women, including urging parties to support the first Australian Women’s Health Charter, launched by the organisation at the end of last month. AWHN lost government funding at the end of last [...]
This week, the National Women’s Alliances launched womenvote.org.au, an online platform where women can access information on how to cast an effective, informed and independent vote. As we head to the polls on 2 July, we want to ensure that women’s voices are being heard, and that our issues are taken seriously. If you have [...]
It’s official! Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has called a double dissolution election and Australia is heading for the polls on 2 July 2016! Throughout the election campaign, we will be discussing what this election means for women. Women’s Agenda has already started the conversation, with a recent article on what we know about Labor and [...]
The Australian Women Against Violence Alliance (AWAVA) has expressed serious concern about the national commitment to supporting women and children facing violence. AWAVA welcomed the small additional commitment to implementing the National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children ($33 million in 2016-17), as we welcomed the Women’s Safety Package last year. [...]
The Australian Government released its budget for 2016-17 yesterday! We attended budget lock up with other women’s organisations and watched it all unfold. So is the government committed to improving the lives of women? We believe this budget evades the hard challenges, and its response to violence against women is not proportionate to the scale [...]
The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) sits within the United Nations Economic and Social Council. Every year the CSW facilitates a meeting which brings together the 196 member states (countries/jurisdictions) of the United Nations to discuss gender equity and women’s rights. This blog post attempts to provide violence against women practitioners some insight [...]
21 April 2016 AWAVA welcomes the report of the Victorian Royal Commission on Family Violence and the Victorian Government’s response The Australian Women Against Violence Alliance (AWAVA) welcomes the report of the Victorian Royal Commission on Family Violence. We applaud the Victorian Government for its constructive response in accepting all 227 recommendations and [...]