Weekly Round-up** Welcome to the latest edition of the AWAVA Weekly Round-Up. This week the 5 National Women’s Alliancescame together to reflect on our work throughout the last year, to celebrate our achievements and to plan for the year to come. AWAVA would like to take this opportunity to congratulate our sister Alliances the National [...]
Welcome to the latest edition of the AWAVA Weekly Round-Up. This week, the number of women who have been murdered by men across the country has risen to 40. However, we have also seen some positive steps in our response to this violence. The ACT Government has announced the appointment of Vicki Parker to the [...]
Welcome to the latest edition of the AWAVA Weekly Round-Up. This week, the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) has announced its Advisory Panel on Domestic and Family Violence. AWAVA’s is pleased to announce that our Chair, Julie Oberin, has been appointed the Panel. We are encouraged by COAG’s leadership in tackling domestic violence and look [...]
Welcome to the latest edition of the AWAVA Weekly Round-Up. This week, as the violence against women death toll continues to rise, we are also hearing of the increasing demand experienced by services that support women and children escaping violence. Many telephone counselling, legal support and crisis accommodation services are unable to meet the increasing [...]
Welcome to the latest edition of the AWAVA Weekly Round-Up. This week, we are again dismayed by the deaths of two women in the Australian Capital Territory and New South Wales. In both cases a man known to the victim has been charged with the murder. This brings Australia’s violence against women death toll to [...]
Welcome to the latest edition of the AWAVA Weekly Round-Up. This week, we look at the outcomes of the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting on Friday, which included a focus on Domestic and Family Violence. The COAG Communiqué provides an overview of the discussions, which led to agreements on the development of a national [...]
Weekly Round-up* 13 April Welcome to the latest edition of the AWAVA Weekly Round-Up. This week, Australia’s violence against women epidemic is in the spotlight again after the murder of high school teacher Stephanie Scott over the Easter Weekend. Ms. Scott’s death has highlighted the need for further action to address gender inequality and violence [...]
Welcome to the latest edition of the AWAVA Weekly Round-Up. This week, many of the links we’ve highlighted focus on the huge contributions that dedicated staff in frontline services make to the community in Australia and around the world. While they are often given a backseat in the media, these individuals commit themselves to assisting [...]
Welcome to the latest edition of the AWAVA Weekly Round-Up. This week, many of the stories we highlight deal with increases in violence against women during and after natural disasters. This is a clear example of the need to look at events in our society through a gender lens. In 2012, our sister alliances, economic [...]
Welcome to the latest edition of the AWAVA Weekly Round-Up. This week, we have highlighted efforts from across the country and the globe to bring conversations about violence against women into the public sphere. Attitudes and beliefs about gender and violence allow this issue to continue and fester in our society, but these conversations offer [...]