The Age, November 25, 2015 Are women with disabilities “vulnerable”? Far from it, says Keran Howe. She doesn’t like the term, believing it makes the woman she has worked with as an advocate for more than 30 years seem passive, or submissive. Instead, women with disabilities are targeted, says Howe, by people who use sexual abuse and family violence to control and intimidate them...
ABC News, 27 November 2015
Legislation preventing protesters from coming within 150 metres of an abortion clinic has passed the Upper House of the Victorian Parliament without amendment.
The abortion buffer zone laws make it illegal for anti-abortion protesters to harass or film women going in or coming out of the clinics.
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AIHW, released: 27 Nov 2015 The health of Australia’s prisoners 2015 is the fourth report produced by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare on the health and wellbeing of prisoners. The report explores the conditions and diseases experienced by prisoners; compares, where possible, the health of prisoners to the general Australian community and provides valuable insight into the use of...
Adelaide PHN and Country SA PHN, Thursday, 26th November 2015 Following a review of the mental health system, Federal Health Minister Sussan Ley has decided to devolve administration and funding from the federal level to the 31 recently established PHNs Australia-wide. The changeover will take effect on July 1, 2016. Read more of this press release here (PDF) APHN Mental Health Announcement...
SBS, 23 Nov 2015 – Updated 25 Nov 2015 The latest data from the Australian Institute of Criminology says 47 women died from intimate partner homicide in 2011-12. That equates to one woman dying from intimate partner homicide every seven-to-eight days in 2011-12. On White Ribbon Day, Campaigners have called for a dramatic reduction in domestic-violence deaths and injuries, as 76 women have...
Australian Bureau of Statistics, 29 October 2015 2014 saw the lowest recorded number of births to teenaged mothers (9,204). The proportion of all births to mothers aged 19 and under was 3.1 per cent, following a steady decline from 10.4 per cent in 1975. Further contents of this report include: Summary Births Fertility rates States and Territories Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander births and...