Time to invest in National FVPLS Forum members who work at the frontline of family violence #endvaw #Budget2022 #Aboriginalwomenslivesmatter Djirra Change the Record

Indefinite incarceration shows WA is not serious about reducing incarceration.More systemic racism still. Megan Krakouer Change the Record Justice Reform Initiative Prof Dr M Davis The Drum Sarah Collard
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Its hard to put into words the levels of grief this week -- Hearing Ms Rubuntja, Roberta Curry and Constance Watcho's stories on Four Corners, crying for Cassius, the inquest into beautiful Aboriginal artist Nish Cash, the inquest into Kumunjayi Walker continuing...

This line from his mum hurt.

'I've always told him, 'You're an Indigenous boy, they're going to look at you and think all these awful things, just try and be smaller'

On his behalf we must not be shrunk.

This economy, diligently tended in this budget, is not designed to meet human need. What would a benefit dependent single parent teetering on homelessness, picking a mutually exclusive path between bills and food make of their exclusion from these earnest national calculations?

For any of you who think this colony is not designed to enslave, cage and destroy us Blak fullas, just look at what it has done to us in just one week. The amount of lives it has destroyed and taken. 😢

Noongar-Yamatji woman Mechelle Turvey says her son, 15-year-old Cassius - who died after allegedly being beaten with a metal pole - will be remembered as a 'young leader.'

'He just loved all the young fellas around him.'

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This budget still leaves so many women in danger without the service support they need. We need major new investment over the term of the Albanese Government, starting from the next budget in May. 3/

When you consider the unacceptable rates of violence against Aboriginal women we have always known much of it has been enabled by police indifference to it. All laid out on #4Corners
My heart breaks for every life lost. Every woman treated like she matters little. Sickening.

We’re also very troubled to see that budget spending is forecast to increase by only 0.3% per annum when we know we must deliver critical essential services to meet community need.

We remain deeply concerned about the lack of action to lift the incomes of people living on payments like JobSeeker, which is just $48 a day. #raisetherateforgood

Children shouldn’t be locked in prisons - especially not adult prisons. The Judge is right - what is happening right now in WA is “barbaric', 'cruel' and 'a form of child abuse'. abc.net.au/news/2022-10-2…