There is an epidemic of gender-based violence in this country, and yet the services that respond to this violence (including community legal centres) are under-funded and forced to turn away people in crisis.

#FundEqualJustice #CommunityLaw

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A national plan to end child and youth homelessness could drive the change needed to drastically reduce child and youth homelessness, and to better meet the needs of children when they do lost their homes. Join the call for a plan this #YHMD yfoundations.org.au/end_child_and_…

I haven’t been able to stop thinking about this poem since reading it on poetryisnotaluxurys feed yesterday.

Social work students are forced to work 1,000 hours for free.

We need 10,000 new social workers but less than 1,600 graduate every year.

No one can work 6 months for free.

We need to end unpaid placements now.

Jason Clare MP can fix this in the May budget.

📢 The students united will never be defeated.

📢 End unpaid placements now.

📢 All work must be paid.

It’s time for the Federal Government to end placement poverty in the May budget.

We asked ASU members how they are coping in the current cost of living crisis, and almost 50% told us that they’re living paycheck-to-paycheck.

This has to change! Join ASU members calling for a 5% pay rise: bit.ly/DeserveBetter24

Aboriginal legal services forced to turn people away:
'It’s up to the government to respond with a funding increase in this year’s federal and state budgets.' rb.gy/d5fsya
#fundequaljustice #communitylaw #Auspol2024

Only the most lost & depraved souls would think killing and maiming innocents is justice for killing and maiming innocents

The indomitable Miriam Margolyes OBE has a message in support of the Jewish Council! She calls for all of us Jews to “shout, beg, scream for a ceasefire”

'We demand of the US administration to study the report, consider it carefully and pass judgement on its merits, not ad hominem. We call all states, global civil society and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, to support the Special Rapporteur in her efforts to fulfill her…

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This weekend, we mark 6 months since the beginning of the genocide in Gaza. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. Mobilise for Palestine this weekend - help organisers make it the largest mobilisation across the continent.

Gay conversion practices outlawed across much of the country, recently in NSW, but not in SA. A Rainbow Advocacy Alliance is pushing for strong laws to ban practices. While SA says such practices are not 'widespread' in SA, it is considering legislation to outlaw them. ACOSS

'We call for bold new thinking that sees housing primarily as a right rather than a financial asset for growing wealth'--Devin Bowles and Travis Gilbert
#AffordableHousing #EndHomelessness #auspol
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Social work students are forced to work 1,000 hours for free.

That’s the equivalent of 6 months work full time.

Australia needs an extra 10,000 social workers but only 1,600 graduate each year.

The Federal Government must end unpaid student placements for social workers.

Ten times as many people have been killed in Gaza than died in the US on 9/11

The way child support calculated been criticised for not factoring the growing cost of living, additional expenses for education, medical & those with special needs. 1/3 of parents - 218,000 — have a debt, & they owe $1.7 billion in unpaid child support. Terese_NCSMC ACOSS
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Kenneth Roth Rula Jebreal In Gaza, the massacre of journalists was committed by Israel and the international community remained silent about it

How could there be any justification in killing 15,000 children?