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Labor calls for action on domestic violence

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stop-domestic-violenceFederal Labor has called on the Abbott Government to hold a ‘national crisis summit’ on family violence to tackle the growing epidemic of violence against women. According to recent statistics, the biggest risk factor for being a victim of family violence is being a woman. These same statistics also reveal that a shocking 1 in 3 Australian women have experienced physical violence since the age of 15. According to Federal Labor, these underlying statistics reveal a deep crisis that needs urgent government and community attention.

Specifically, the latest research also shows that 17 per cent of Australian women have experienced violence by a current or previous partner in their lifetime and that only 20 per cent of Australian women who have experienced current partner violence actually reported it to police.

Labor has announced that it will make a series of critical investments in services and programs that directly support women and children escaping family violence, with an interim package of more than $70 million over three years.

Failing any inaction from the Abbott Government, Federal Labor has promised that it would hold a summit within 100 days of being elected and invest in interim measures to address the issue.

For more information about Labor’s policies to address domestic violence, please visit http://bit.ly/1GRE4hF

Unions hail National Day of Action a ‘huge success’

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The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) has declared the 4th March National Day of Action as a huge success, with nearly 100,000 people marching in 17 cities and towns around Australia. The event was organised by the ACTU to send the Abbott Government a message that the union movement will fight to protect workers rights and living standards.

Of deep concern to the union movement are proposals by the Abbott Government to:-

  • Put workers onto individual contracts that would strip away penalty rates and cut take home pay;
  • Allow workers to be paid with something other than money;
  • Make it easier for bad employers by having workers sign away their right to compensation;
  • Take away the right to strike by allowing bad bosses to veto industrial action;
  • Make it harder for workers to be supported by their union at work; and
  • Move Australia towards an American style system of low wages and zero conditions.

The ACTU has indicated that the community based campaign would continue and is now seeking to mobilise every worker across the country whilst the threat from the Abbott Government continues.

For more information about the ongoing campaign, please visit www.australianunions.org.au/stop_abbotts_laws

A video of the recent National Day of Action is presented below:-