Barnaby Joyce’s recent return to the Nationals’ leadership and Deputy Prime Minister position, having resigned in 2018 after allegations of sexual harassment, is grist to the mill. Not everyone in the Coalition is happy, however, reflecting broader sentiment among women where support appears to be diving.
Misogyny and structural inequalities mean that First Nations’ women, women of colour, trans women and women with disability are disproportionately affected by the rise in violence during the pandemic.
In addition, the United Nations (UN) Population Fund reported that access to sexual and reproductive health information and services have been curtailed over this period.
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Monash University
Monash University has been awarded $8.67 million from the State Government for critical research, the creation of workforce pathways and better legal support for family violence victim-survivors.
The Safe and Equal @ Work and Access to Justice programs were announced today by The Hon. Gayle Tierney, Minister for Higher Education, via the State Government’s $350 million Victorian Higher Education State Investment Fund (VHESIF).
Monash’s Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Law are the first recipients of funding from VHESIF at Monash, for the two complementary outputs.
The Faculty of Arts’ Safe and Equal @ Work program will address training and job creation for family violence victim-survivors, women’s homelessness and enhance safety overall.
Horrific map exposes Australiaâs violence shame Australians have been devastated by the tragic death of Kelly Wilkinson â but a map has shown how bad the issue of domestic violence truly is.
Crime by Natalie Brown 21st Apr 2021 5:50 PM On Tuesday morning, police were called by a concerned neighbour to a Gold Coast home, where they found the body of Kelly Wilkinson. Three children under the age of 9 were inside the Arundel house, while the beautiful mum s body was discovered in the backyard, with burn-type injuries , in what Detective Inspector Chris Ahearn called a very confronting scene . Her former partner, 34-year-old Brian Earl Johnston, was found in the front yard of a home two blocks away in a semiconscious state , with serious burns to his hands and airway. He was charged with murder and breaching a domestic violence order by detectives on Tuesday night.