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Premium Content Subscriber only Member for Keppel Brittany Lauga will march alongside more than 800 students and staff from St. Brendan’s College next Friday to help raise awareness of domestic and family violence. Ms Lauga said the Queensland Government designated the month of May as Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Month to send a clear message that domestic and family violence in families and homes would not be tolerated. She said events were being held by community organisations, including schools, to raise awareness of domestic and family violence. “I’m proud to be marching ...

Date Time We all play a part this Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Month Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, Minister for Women and Minister for the Prevention of Domestic and Family Violence The Honourable Shannon Fentiman Queenslanders are being reminded that we all have a role to play in preventing domestic and family violence in our community as Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Month gets underway today (1 May). Minister for the Prevention of Domestic and Family Violence Shannon Fentiman said to achieve lasting and sustainable positive cultural change, all parts of th...

Replies(3) State Sen. Tony Hwang speaks at a Stop Asian Hate rally earlier this month. (Anna Bybee-Schier/Patch) From state Sen. Tony Hwang: I stand with local leaders in offering the stern reminder that there can be no tolerance of invoking incendiary and hateful messages against any person, race, religion, orientation, disability or ability, or any difference in political thought. Subscribe It is even further offensive that this person/group decided to inject hate into a safe space dedicated to bettering our community. I appreciate the Fairfield Racial Equity and Justice Task Force for thei...

New Report Looks at Strategies to Cut Incarceration of Illinois Women by Half Colette Payne (right) speaks at the annual Mother's Day vigil, organized by Moms United Against Violence and Incarceration, outside Cook County Jail in Chicago. Payne and other organizers at the Women's Justice Institute released a report detailing the impact of incarceration on women and explaining how to dramatically reduce the Illinois women's prison population. Between 1980 and 2014, the number of women incarcerated across the United States increased by 700 percent. In Illinois, women’s incarceration increa...

Date Time Queensland women’s voices on DFV to be heard Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, Minister for Women and Minister for the Prevention of Domestic and Family Violence The Honourable Shannon Fentiman Attorney-General and Minister for the Prevention of Domestic and Family Violence Shannon Fentiman is inviting women to come forward and talk about their experiences dealing with the criminal justice system. The Attorney said public submissions are now open to the Women’s Safety and Justice Taskforce chaired by former judge, the Honourable Margaret McMurdo AC. The Taskforce is ano...