In this podcast from the Right Now Radio vault, Anna Dorevitch and Evelyn Tadros talk to Fiona McCormak, CEO of Domestic Violence Victoria, the State’s peak body for family violence services for women and children. Fiona discusses the prevalence and impact of violence against women and children in Victoria and advocates the action that needs to take place on a state and federal level to protect their human rights.
Listen to this podcast about ending violence against women here (26mins).
Forced marriage remains one of the most complex and poorly understood human rights and policy issues encountered by Australia in recent years.
Sophie Cousins’ book Renewal: Five Paths to a Fairer Australia is, in many respects, a proposal. For Cousins, the COVID-19 pandemic has provided Australians with an opportunity to reconsider the ways our society currently functions. Cousins aptly makes her case – while in some ways the pandemic reinforced burgeoning inequalities, it also presented us the chance to apply collectivist values to solve systemic problems.
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