After a class action that left people out of pocket, a pissweak royal commission, a bullshit NACC report and a compensation settlement that hundreds of thousands of Robodebt victims are going to miss out on, no wonder people are disillusioned with the ALP
#BREAKING 🚨 NACC eventually finds Robodebt corruption following immense public pressure, years-long conflict of interest scandal embroiling Commissioner Brereton and agency.
Government has confirmed the #RobodebtRC sealed section will be tabled in Parliament now the investigation has concluded.
And no-one will be charged because the NACC isn’t referring anything to the DPP.
So that’s it.
Everyone walks away, no one who was responsible for the worst govt malfeasance in the country’s history - costing lives and billions of $ - will ever face justice.
The NACC is for covering up corruption.
Dozens of documents detailing FBI interviews with an Epstein victim who accused Donald Trump of sexually abusing her as a high schooler are being kept under wraps.
There has been good work done to bring violence against women into the spotlight and encourage women to seek help.
But if that help is not there because there isn’t enough funding, we are condemning women to homelessness, violence or death.
We all deserve support when we need it - and we deserve it without having to wait weeks or months for it, especially when that wait could be deadly. Add your name to the call to governments to fund women's safety: www.fairagenda.org/fund_womens_...
Funding for frontline FDSV services is still only 80% of what the sector has spent a decade calling for.
That's 1 in 5 women being turned away.
If this government can afford to hand $368b to Trump for AUKUS submarines, why can’t they afford to fully fund women and children’s safety?
🎉 I finally have a date for my gender-affirming surgery! 🎉 after waiting 4+ years, I can't wait to get this over with.
even with medicare + private health cover, I'm looking at ~$5.5k out of pocket. if you have a couple of bucks to spare, it would really help 💜
The Age headline: American troops killed in action as US sinks naval ships; missiles pound the Middle East
Still no headline about 150 Iranian girls killed by a targeted US/ Israel attack on their school. The ‘troops’ chose war. Those girls couldn’t even choose life.
It's not enough to just "add consent and stir" to the curriculum. We simply cannot afford to get this wrong. The potential for harmful outcomes is too great
RRE that hasn't been rigorously evaluated may reinforce harmful myths, give a false sense of safety (e.g. "we've covered consent, so we've fixed that problem"), can normalise harmful behaviour instead of challenging it, and critically, can harm student victim-survivors
It's not just that RRE - or so-called "consent education" - programs that haven't been evaluated might not actually be any good that should concern us. It's that there's a good chance that they're actively harmful
The rapid review found that “while there is increasing uptake of RRE in Australian schools, many school-based RRE initiatives have not been rigorously evaluated and/or the evaluations are not publicly accessible”.
Exclusive: Four years after promising a framework on consent education in schools, the government is still sitting on a key report and its working group has lost half its members. satpa.pe/5g0Amud
"Meantime, four of the eight experts appointed to the expert advisory group have left. Our Watch chief executive Patty Kinnersly is no longer chair but is still part of the group. The department has not published communiqués from the group’s past two meetings."
So gross and so predictable
I guess she wasn't "difficult" when he could use her for his election campaign
look at his face after he says difficult. Does that look like the reaction of someone solemnly acknowledging someone's hard life?
jesus christ
won't somebody think of the people who answer the phones 😭
Wing! We're so lucky to have you!!
Apparently they should and we should all be grateful for them
Way back in 2017, then-Social Services Christian Porter told the media I was "grossly irresponsible" because I said that sexual assault victim-survivors deserved to have calls made to 1800RESPECT answered by specialist trauma counsellors.
I've been 'difficult' & 'grossly irresponsible' ever since
An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU
A harrowing story. Atrocious for Lisa, a medical professional, to intervene so completely to help reduce jail time for two rapists.
The state govt & Our Watch co-convened the South Australian Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Prevention Forum last week. But one panel in particular, entitled “Executive Leadership in Action" raised eyebrows, given it featured Anna Moeller, the CEO of an alcohol & gambling industry lobby group.
“ISIS brides’ is such a demeaning moniker that banishes these women and their children to hell. The misogyny and racism in this whole thing, readily amplified by the PM, is gross.
I've spent the past few days researching the scale of unmet need for people who have experienced domestic, family or sexual violence, and mates, the stats are fucking grim.
If you reckon that govts should fund safety services with as much enthusiasm as they fund sports & subs, let them know now 👇🏻
Last week, the federal government committed $3.9B to a new submarine shipyard with funding guaranteed for decades, yet women’s safety services remain overstretched and underfunded. Let’s demand the long-term funding women needs before ministers meet tomorrow.
fair-agenda.good.do/womens_safet...
