Victorian Women's Trust in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | Non-profit organisation

Victorian Women's Trust

Locality: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 3 9642 0422

Address: Level 9, 313 La Trobe St 3000 Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.vwt.org.au

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25.01.2022 CW: domestic abuse, family violence Did you know that this week marks the UnitedNations 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence? Beginning on 25 Nov, on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, the 16 days will run until December 10, #HumanRightsDay... In Australia, on average, 1 woman is murdered by a current or former partner each week, and 1 in 2 women have experienced sexual harassment. Here are some ways you can get involved: Learn more about violence against women. ‘See What You Made Me Do’ by Stella Prize 2020 winner Jess Hill is a great resource! Get friends and colleagues together and #GoOrange during the 16 days. Orange is a symbol of a future free from violence against women and girls. If you’re running an event add it to the VWT events calendar here: https://www.vwt.org.au/share-your-event/ Start conversations about violence against women in your networks and amongst family and friends. Support Services: Safe Steps Family Violence Response Centre 1800 015 188 Men's Referral Service 1300 766 491 Kids Helpline Official 1800 55 1800 1800RESPECT 1800 737 732 You can also visit our full list of support services here: https://www.vwt.org.au/support-services/ Image: Safe Steps Family Violence Response Centre

23.01.2022 The bill seeks to replace the current 5 days of unpaid domestic violence leave. Full-time and part-time employees would receive their regular rate of pay for the hours they would usually work and casuals would be paid for the period they were rostered on for, with loadings.

22.01.2022 Great news, let's make Oz next "Scotland has become the first country in the world to provide free and universal access to period products after a four-year campaign that has fundamentally shifted the public discourse around menstruation."

21.01.2022 "To heal this we must address the inequality faced by Aboriginal people - Black Lives Matter needs to be more than a trending hashtag...it must be a reckoning - a line in the sand - a call to action." Have you heard Lidia Thorpe's maiden speech?

20.01.2022 CW: family abuse, toxic family relationships This is such a moving story and a wonderful project: "[Daizy's] social media posts got close to half a million shares and around $18,000 in money pledges, which enabled her to recently inaugurate the Australian South Asian Centre, a lush, tree-filled, almost 1 hectare wellness space located an hour's drive from Melbourne.... The centre has leased three cottages and can house four women at any one time. The space operates on a pay-what-you-want model, with the option of free stay for women who have no financial means. The intention of the centre is to offer physical and psychological space to women where they can get away from their toxic families or distressing life situations and prepare to live financially sound and fulfilling lives. Residents can access free workshops and classes on meditation, mindful living, physical fitness, and financial planning that Daizy organises with qualified coaches. She hopes the women leave the space feeling more confident, resilient, and physically and mentally fit."

19.01.2022 "Piinpi is a really powerful, positive statement [because] despite the atrocities and the history of colonisation, our culture has continued to grow from strength to strength and we share those links we have with country, we share our stories and narratives through our fashion and our art.’’

14.01.2022 "Women can also learn from their spokespeople who appreciate that truth telling (acknowledging the facts of the past) is vital if change is to occur. We must do so much more to honour our heroines, understand the history of women’s oppression and recognise the battles fought, whether won or lost. I don’t claim to have the answers but unless the experience of the last 150 years of feminist action informs our present efforts, we will not succeed in achieving full gender equality or in eliminating the scourge of violence against women and girls."

14.01.2022 "It is difficult to envisage a way that breast milk grown in a lab can be anything other than an elite product." Thoughts?

13.01.2022 Episode 8. The Natural World Out now! In this episode of Between the Leaves hosts Ellen van Neerven and Hermina Burns share a selection of poems exploring place, country and the natural world. ... This is the last episode of Between the Leaves, proudly presented by the Victorian Women's Trust. Thank you for listening Listen now: https://podfollow.com//3c63e98fa1a4e43b12e28c973b1eb9/view

12.01.2022 Last week, our sister organisation Chalice Foundation published this interview with our executive director Mary Crooks AO on how working on our publication About Bloody Time enabled her to finally educate herself and change her perspective around her period and menopause

10.01.2022 Accurate [Image description: a tweet presented on a pink tile. The tweet reads "teach a man to fish and he'll turn around and try to teach you how to fish like he invented it and you're an idiot.]

09.01.2022 "Along with ‘COVID-19’, ‘social distancing’ and ‘when do you think Melbourne will reopen?’, ‘disgusting’ has been on regular rotation. Why?"

08.01.2022 Missed out on our Brazen Hussies panel talk last week? Catch up here

07.01.2022 'When Pollock and colleagues started writing about women in art history, they were not attempting to understand why women had been written out of the story, but how. Pollock says they wanted to turn the spotlight on art history and ask: "How can you disinform the public that there is nothing that women have ever done that forms part of our cultural heritage?" They discovered that the problem was "structural".... Pollock says that while 19th-century artist compendiums included women, the recognition of women as artists came to a halt at the beginning of the 20th century. "[It] became absolutely systematic, with the foundation of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and then followed through with the academic institutional art history that was being taught in the 20th century," she says. This erasure was happening in a period when women's rights campaigns had resulted in improved access to education and work for women, which meant women were making art in the studios of Constructivism, Cubism, and Abstract Impressionism. "Men and women were co-creating modern art. But the story of modern art was being produced as a great, heroic, masculine adventure, almost without women."' https://www.abc.net.au//australian-women-artists-/12890818

06.01.2022 Anyone looking SO forward to seeing this exhibition? Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples should be aware that this articles contains the images of people who have passed away. https://www.theguardian.com//destiny-deacon-on-humour-in-a

03.01.2022 "The director of the Workplace Gender Equality Agency has warned Australian employers are on autopilot when it comes to advancing equity, pointing to a troubling decline in the number of employers taking remedial action to address gender pay gaps. New data to be released by the agency on Thursday shows organisations are continuing to conduct gender pay gap analysis, but there has been a six-point drop in the number of employers who reported taking action as a result. More than 45% of Australian employers who undertook a pay gap analysis took no action to address the inequities they discovered."

03.01.2022 "Algorithms used for job recruitment are choosing men over more qualified women, especially if they've taken maternity leave, according to a University of Melbourne study."

02.01.2022 We want women to know you don’t have to have an MBA or previous experience to start your business. You just have to be willing to do the work and take the risks. None of that is easy, but it’s doable. And everyone can do it."