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23.01.2022 The prevalence of domestic violence in our community is shocking. The message is simply not getting through to some people that violence is never an option. Th...at is why this week, I introduced a bill to significantly increase penalties for breaches of domestic violence intervention orders. History shows that those who contravene intervention orders are more likely to violently offend. Our community wants change. These new measures make it abundantly clear that if you breach an intervention order you will face a sentence. It is time to take even firmer steps to end this terrible scourge and to keep women safe. South Australian Labor Women's Safety Services SA Women's Legal Service SA Soroptimist International Zahra Foundation Australia Our Watch Zonta Club of Noarlunga Southern Vales The Zonta Club of Adelaide Southern Women Matter Southern Domestic Violence Action Group Embolden South Australian Labor Women's Network National Labor Women's Network

21.01.2022 It is important for us to recognise that there is evidence that natural disasters such as earthquakes, hurricanes and bushfires can unmask or exacerbate domesti...c and family violence. Australian research conducted after Black Saturday in 2009 found a reported increase in domestic and family violence in bushfires-affected communities. Given the recent devastating fire season in Australia (and particularly SA) we need to be mindful of the trauma, financial hardships and unemployment that are being experienced by families and work together to rally support and resources to support zero tolerance of domestic and family violence https://www.abc.net.au//domestic-violence-antici/11980112

21.01.2022 Rosie Batty, 2015 Australian of the Year, will be in conversation with Brad Chilcott for this free White Ribbon Night online event. For the vast majority of the tens of thousands of White Ribbon Australia supporters, ambassadors and advocates, staff, committee members and volunteers wearing the ribbon has always been about much more than a pledge. In the short time since officially joining the movement as Executive Director, I’ve heard so many stories about the incredible eff...ort, sacrifice and creativity of people across the nation working to raise awareness, develop local responses to gender inequality and gendered violence, influence men and boys’ attitudes and behaviour and support victim-survivors in myriad ways. To those who have contributed in this way to this movement over the years, I say thank you. Event details White Ribbon Night 2020 #MoreThanAPledge Listen. Learn. Act. Rosie Batty in conversation with Brad Chilcott 6:00pm7:15pm AEST Friday 31 July online (Zoom details will be sent to ticket holders closer to the event) https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/white-ribbon-night-2020-ros

21.01.2022 Inquiry into Family, Domestic Violence and Sexual Result. Below are our recommendations (19), once published on the parliament website we will provide a copy to... the women whose statements are included, and make it available for all. We hope we have done you proud and now off to lobbying the Committee members. The Safety Net: Let it Work 1. Maintain the much welcome and critical Coronavirus Supplement at $550 per fortnight beyond 24th September 2020. It is not too late to reverse this decision. Unfortunately, the second wave and hot spots provide this impetus. A change in policy would reflect the change in circumstance. 2. Extend the Coronavirus Supplement to single mother households in receipt of Disability Support Pension, Carers Payment, Carers Allowance and Women in receipt of temporary visas. This would immediately provide relief to struggling families and directly reach families who have escaped violence or need to leave but access to financial recourses is a barrier. A profound investment. 3. Provide an exemption to the parenting payment single for women affected by family and domestic violence. Current exemptions and precedents already exist but unwisely not for domestic violence. This would enable the retainment of the current level of payment and an exemption from mutual obligations, a sensible outcome. 4. Include Poverty as priority within the National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children Seeking and staying safe costs money, a lack of financial resources can be an outcome of abuse as well as a strategy that prohibits women from leaving. Furthermore, it forces them to return to the place of abuse into the hands of their abuser. 5. Remove the income declaration for the current and next financial year which can result in a debt to the government. Noting the heightened turbulence of income estimation during this period and the increase in family and domestic violence. 6. Eligibility for the crisis payment is problematic and access is low. The current 7-day time-frame is completely out-of-step of the reality of priorities to reporting domestic violence to Services Australia, a 21-day time-frame would be more reasonable. Furthermore, it needs to be accessible for women leaving and or fleeing violent circumstances. The amount, which is the current income support payment is inadequate. We recommend a ‘domestic violence payment’ that has additional amounts for children. Signifying to the Australian community that Services Australia is a place to report domestic violence and that assistance can be provided. Safety Net: It is time to know 7. The Productivity Commission to undertake a review that seeks to understand the immediate, medium, and long-term economic consequences for those who have being affected by family and domestic violence. The benefit of the Coronavirus Supplement was instructive and illustrated how an adequate safety net changes and saves lives. The Australian Social Security system needs to provide a safety net beyond the supplement. The current system results in a life of poverty with hardship, homelessness and deprivation being the hallmarks of retirement. Financial Abuse: $1.6B Child Support Debt 8. Close the loopholes that enable 200+ Australians to avoid and minimise their taxation and child support obligations through the non-lodging of tax returns. Thus, fulfilling their responsibility to the 1.2 million children in the scheme. Non-compliance is pattern that is premised upon financial abuse and control whilst the lived effect is minimised, and volatile payments are normalised. Most payees are women, the primary carer and with low incomes. 9. Decoupled child-support from FTB (A) by excluding child-support income in FTB (A) calculations to compensate for the volatile and reduced child support payments always present but highlighted by COVID 19. No compliance is a calculated behaviour that is premised upon financial abuse and control with the aim to leave the payer, mostly low-income women, with a family payment debt whilst no guarantee of payments. See report by Swinburne University, Debts and Disappointment: Mothers' Experiences of the Child Support System. 10. Elevate child support for it to be considered within parenting deliberations and available before the mediators and decision makers in the Courts. Furthermore, child support debt and or payment should be included in credit ratings. 11. Provide women with a choice to enter a State Guarantee Payment as an alternative to not receiving seeking child support due to safety concerns. Currently the system perversely awards the perpetrator of violence as they do not have to contribute. This outcome for some women will remain preferable but other options, with the support of women, should be trialled. The non-collection was and remains the only strategy to mitigate and manage family and domestic violence with the Child Support Scheme. 12. Reconvene the Child Support National Stakeholder Engagement Group. A national group that brought together Government and Non-Government organisations that focused upon matters and needs for families in post-separation with a key focus on child support. It is essential as it is one of the more emotive and complex pieces of legislation. 13. Extend access to superannuation held by the payer where child-support debt has been substantiated by Services Australia. Superannuation has become a haven to ‘hide’ money and not pay child support. Furthermore, allow early access to superannuation for women who need to offset reduce child support payments with similar thresholds of 15%. We make this recommendation understanding the long-term implications but whilst the income support remains inadequate, a child support debt is $1.6 Billion other strategies are required. 14. Implement the Women’s Economic Security Statement (2018) for women, most pivotal providing Courts with access to the Australian Tax Office enabling full disclosure of Superannuation Funds to inform property settlements. Family and Domestic Violence: A hand-up changes the fabric of lives 15. Maintain free child-care for Australians who are eligible for the FTB. Providing access to childcare for families who are reconfiguring a new life and managing all the elements that are part of that process. Universal childcare has a raft of benefits including early education and socialisation in a safe and nurturing age appropriate environment. 16. Remove compliance and suspension within the ParentsNext program. It is currently halted, and it should never resume. The poor, inconstant and the need to attend when affected by domestic violence is more aligned to retraumatised than assistance. NCSMC points to a unanimous concern at the Senate Inquiry including human rights and that the evaluation of the program never included the Targeted Compliance Framework (TCF), rending the evaluation as flawed. Essentially participants of a pre-vocational program with babies and incredibly young children can and have had their payments suspended. Spiralling families into hardship. 17. Engagement to replace suspension and compliance within the job network especially at this current time. Undertake a full review to examine why exemptions granted on the grounds of family and domestic violence is never commiserate with the nationwide figures. Court & Safety 18. Replicate the current ‘Family Court list dedicated to COVID-19’ for parenting issues and use this model for all women affected by family and domestic violence. An initiative has the potential to keep families and children safer, its more affordable, it is more accessible, attendance is safer and with appropriate screening processes it can be equipped to manage family and domestic violence as well as litigation abuse. Seeking safety should not be a spiral into financial hardship or features in the lives of separated parents for years, even decades post separation. It is disproportional burden to manage when combined with the sole parenting and in the context of family and domestic violence. 19. Pass the Family Law Amendment (A Step Towards a Safer Family Law System) Bill 2020. We must amend the Family Law Act 1975 to remove provisions relating to the presumption of equal shared parental responsibility making parenting orders and grant primacy to safety for children. The recommendation reflects A better family law system to support and protect those affected by family violence, and the 2019 Australian Law Reform Commission report Family Law for the Future - An Inquiry into the Family Law System.

20.01.2022 We are an essential service and continue to provide support to women experiencing domestic and family violence, and their children. Here is a message from our CEO on how WSSSA is working during this pandemic.

20.01.2022 It was lovely to welcome members from the Zonta Club of Adelaide Flinders Inc to our office this morning to plan for the next 'Food for Thought' workshop which is a 3 week program of hands-on cooking for clients who are registered with the Zahra Foundation

19.01.2022 This doesn't fit the stereotype of homelessness as they aren't as visible - mainly couch surfing or living in cars.

17.01.2022 Wonderful news!

15.01.2022 We are looking for ppl with special talents or skills to support WTR in being a Amplified Voice for Women & Young People being exploited in the SexTrade in NZ. ...We need : Social Media Gurus Ppl to spread the hashtag #NZModelTruths #wahinetoarising everywhere! PPL IN MEDIA, SECRETARIES, AUTHORS, YOUTUBE SENSATIONS DIRECTORS VIDEOGRAPHERS, PHOTOGRAPHERS JOURNALISTS WRITERS, PROMOTERS PUBLIC RELATIONS FUNDRAISERS MARKETING ETC... Share this far & wide. Get in touch with other groups to cross share our info. We need ppl around the GLOBE to see us and join our fight! If you have any of the above skills &/or others that would help WTR support vulnerable exploited women & young people please private msg us on our Facebook Page Wahine Toa Rising

13.01.2022 Just stop it We will not shut up We will not sit down We will keep screaming Louder and louder... Stand up and shout Domestic Violence is never acceptable. Ever! Enough is Enough. Just stop it. See more

12.01.2022 Can you help? My name is Susannah Emery and I am a PhD Student at Curtin University and a Lecturer in Game Design at the University of South Australia. Along with a team, I am currently working on a project titled ‘Gaming for Social Change: how a video game can be designed to help family and friends support those experiencing domestic violence’. ...Continue reading

08.01.2022 We are proud to announce that Arman Abrahimzadeh has been nominated as one of the six finalists for the Westfield West Lakes Local Heroes award for the leadersh...ip and advocacy within both his community and nationally in support of women and children who have been affected by domestic and family violence. We are now seeking your support - if Arman is voted by the community to be one of the final three finalists then the Zahra Foundation will be awarded a $10,000 grant to continue to support our work. Please Vote by clicking on the link below: https://www.westfield.com.au//6P0GjabJcj/local-heroes-2020

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06.01.2022 This is Roselyn Staggard. She's a proud and much loved family matriarch. She is a mother, a grandmother, a beautiful spirit, the rock her family relies on, she ...is a valued member of our community. She is also the latest Australian woman lost to an act of alleged domestic violence. At 67 years old, Roselyn had every reason to believe she would grow into her old age surrounded by those she loves. On Wednesday, she was murdered in her home at Caversham in Western Australia. Police have charged her son, a man media reported as having an ice addiction. Roselyn is the 34th Australian woman killed in 2020. Seventeen children and 76 men have also been killed this year. It must be noted that while all of these victims have died as a result of murder or manslaughter, not all the deaths are due to domestic violence. Many have been killed by friends, neighbours, associates and strangers. That said, almost all the women killed this year were victims of domestic violence and almost all the alleged killers are male regardless of the victims' gender. When I look at the photos of Roselyn I cannot help but think about the belief that violence - particularly gendered and domestic violence - will take generations to end. Roselyn is of an older generation raised when DV was less spoken about or acknowledged as a public problem. We speak more about DV today than we did 67 years ago, but really not a lot has changed in that time. We have barely moved forward over the past six or seven decades. The other day Our Watch tweeted: The attitudes and behaviours that lead to sexual assault and violence against women do not exist in a vacuum they arise from systems, practices, and social norms that have been with us for generations, and will take generations to change. And of course this is right. However, the reality is we cannot wait generations for violence to end because the longer we wait the more Australians will die. The answer to ending violence immediately lies in the hands of perpetrators. They are the ones who control their behaviour and they are the ones who can save, not destroy lives. If only they would take responsibility, women like Roselyn would still be alive. RIP ROSELYN STAGGARD! See more

02.01.2022 We can expect an explosion in the number of Domestic and Family Violence cases once the lockdown ends!!

02.01.2022 Brilliant initiative

01.01.2022 Covid-19 and Self-Isolation If you have to stay at home with a violent partner, here are some key points to consider: Identify safe areas of the house where t...here are ways to escape if possible. If possible, have a phone charged and accessible at all times with numbers to call. Call the police on 000 if things escalate and you are concerned for your safety. Notify the police if there are any Covid-19 concerns on site. Let trusted friends and neighbours know of your situation and develop a plan and visual signal for when you need help. Make a habit of backing the car into the driveway and keeping it fuelled. Your life and your children’s lives are important. If you must leave for safety reasons, then do so. If you have been exposed or you are sick park in a safe location and stay in the car while contacting a GP or hospital nearby to organise to get tested and to discuss quarantine options. Call DV Connect on 1800 811 811 to see if they can support with other accommodation options if needed. Credited to - https://www.thehotline.org/help/path-to-safety/ & www.dvac.org.au Call DVAC for further safety planning and support: DVAC Ipswich 07 3816 3000 DVAC Toowoomba 07 4642 1354 Australian Department of Health https://www.health.gov.au//coronavirus-covid-19-news-and-m World Health Organisation https://www.who.int/emergen/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019