Welcome to AWAVA’s latest weekly round-up of news! Our sister alliance, Equality Rights Alliance (ERA), is looking for a motivated, innovative and independent person to join the ERA team as a part-time Administration Officer. ERA is a national non-government network advocating for women’s equality. If you are interested in working with a team of dedicated individuals, [...]
Welcome to the latest AWAVA Weekly-Round Up. We are delighted to announce that the two keynote speakers at the AWAVA/Our Watch international conference in September 2016 will be Marai Larasi and Rashida Manjoo. Marai Larasi is Executive Director of Imkaan, a UK-based organisation dedicated to addressing violence against Black women and girls. Rashida Majoo was [...]
We presented our position paper to the Senate committee on the 12th of February 2016 with specific recommendations to the Family Law Amendment (Financial Agreements and Other Measures) Bill 2015. We stress the need to make the system safe and trustworthy for survivors of violence. We believe that by incorporating a deep understanding of the [...]
AWAVA made a submission on the development of the 2016-17 Budget. While The Australian Government's policies have supported valuable work on the prevention of violence against women and have promoted a better understanding of the attitudes that enable violence and undermine safety, the services that deal directly with women living in situations of violence continue [...]
Welcome to the latest AWAVA Round-Up! Do you have a view on domestic violence and gender equality? The Senate Standing Committee on Finance and Public Administration is calling for submissions from individuals and community organisations on this issue. The closing date for submissions is 21 March 2016. More information here. Around the country The National [...]
AWAVA welcomes the opportunity to contribute a submission to the Senate inquiry into the Family Law Amendment (Financial Agreements and Other Measures) Bill 2015. We support the intention of the Bill to strengthen the Family Law Act, and particularly the intention of enabling the courts to offer better protection to victims of family violence. [...]
Welcome to our latest round up of news from the preventing and responding to violence against women sector. AWAVA is excited to announce that we have started a blog to create a platform to share the fantastic work that women around the country are doing to address gender-based violence. Over the course of the year, [...]
AWAVA welcomes the opportunity to contribute a submission to the Senate inquiry into ‘the phenomenon colloquially referred to as “revenge porn”, which involves sharing private sexual images and recordings of a person without their consent, with the intention to cause that person harm’. We support moves to criminalise the non-consensual sharing of intimate images [...]
As part of this initiative, we are delighted to share the work that Jess Aulich from Canberra is doing to contribute to the campaign against domestic violence. Jess recently won the ACT Government Audrey Fagan Churchill Fellowship and will visit the Vienna Intervention Centre in Austria, New York City’s Office to Combat Domestic Violence and California’s Partnership to End Domestic Violence [...]
Women’s services continue to highlight the prevalence of technology-facilitated violence and abuse. Last week AWAVA made a submission to a Senate Inquiry in which we recommended that the unauthorised sharing of intimate images be made a criminal offence under federal law. As we noted in the submission, ‘the non-consensual sharing of intimate images, or the [...]