AWAVA has made a submission to the public consultation within the Justice Project run by the Law Council of Australia. For more information on the project click here. Download our submission here
AWAVA has made a submission in response to the inquiry on the adequacy of existing offences in the Commonwealth Criminal Code and of state and territory criminal laws to capture cyberbullying. In the submission we brought the Committee's attention to the four priority areas for consideration: the need to understand the sexual and gender aspects of [...]
AWAVA has made a submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women providing a detailed analysis of the online violence, which we define as technology-facilitated abuse. Access full submission here: To access the state by state legislation in relation to technology-facilitated abuse click here:
AWAVA has made a submission on Treasury Laws Amendment (National Housing and Homelessness Agreement) Bill 2017 urging the Government to take a gender-responsive approach to housing and homelessness policy. Download our submission here
AWAVA has partnered with the Harmony Alliance to make a 2018-2019 Pre-budget submission focusing on the access to services for women from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. AWAVA and the Harmony Alliance have put 10 recommendations to the Government to ensure that migration rules and eligibility requirements for support services do now disempower victims/survivors [...]
AWAVA has made a 2018-2019 Pre-Budget submission focusing on areas such as the adequate funding and resourcing of the National Plan to Reduce Violence Against Women and Their Children, housing and homelessness services for women and children leaving violence, other services and payments for women facing violence, economic empowerment, access to justice and technological safety [...]
Equality Rights Alliance (ERA) and AWAVA has prepared a joint letter to all Federal, State and Territory Treasurers and Ministers for Housing, Women and the Prevention of Family Violence to put forward our vision for a gender responsive National Housing and Homelessness Agreement. With negotiations underway between the States, Territories and Federal Government on a new [...]
AWAVA has made a submission to the Senate Inquiry on Delivery of National Outcome 4 of the National Plan to Reduce Violence Against Women and Their Children. Download the submission here
AWAVA has made a submission to the Department of Immigration and Border Protection in response to the public consultation on visa simplification. Our submission aims to answer the consultation question of needed considerations when simplifying the visa system namely retaining, improving and extending family violence provisions. We aim to provide an analysis of the [...]
AWAVA & Equality Rights Alliance (ERA) has made a joint Submission in response to the Productivity Commission’s Draft Report on Introducing Competition and Informed User Choice into Human Services. Download the submission here