Opposition Leader Elizabeth Lee… calls for funding to Canberra Community Law.
CANBERRA Liberals leader Elizabeth Lee will move a motion in the Legislative Assembly today (June 2), calling on the ACT government to provide funding certainty for Canberra Community Law within the week.
Short-term covid-related funding for Canberra Community Law ceases on June 30 after the free, independent legal service, that’s run by community managed boards, had already been struggling with funding reductions over recent years.
A reduction in funds, the biggest funding hit it’s ever seen, means the organisation, which is the only ACT service that specialises in housing, Centrelink, disability and racial discrimination law, and homelessness law, will face a significant shortfall in resources to maintain current service levels.
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Published April 22, 2021
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Stealthing, the act of sneakily removing a condom during sex, is set to become a crime in the ACT – and not a second too soon.
As many as one in three women and one in five queer men have been a victim of stealthing, according to one Australian study, with female sex workers particularly at risk.
Assistant minister for families and community services Emma Davidson.
THE ACT government has rejected calls from the Opposition to establish a poverty taskforce to tackle the rising rate of Canberrans living in poverty, blaming the problem on the federal government.
Assistant minister for families and community services Emma Davidson said a poverty taskforce would delay action and divert resources from initiatives that address the root causes of poverty in the ACT, before she placed the blame on the federal government.
She stressed that the big levers controlling poverty in Canberra are held by the Morrison Government, and called for increased welfare payments, funding primary healthcare through the Medicare Benefits Scheme and funding for the Specialist Homelessness Sector.