Domestic violence support groups say the Budget's inclusion of refugee and migrant women fleeing violence is a 'game changer' for the national conversation.
Screenprinting display by artist Anthony Tungning Huang. Anthony TungNing Huang is an illustrator, printmaker and ballroom dancer. Upon taking his first printmaking class at SCAD last winter he immediately connected with the process.
“As a printmaker, my work primarily focuses on communicating the beauty in the simplicity of Nature,” Huang said. “This work is an exploration of how I view the world and my place within it.”
As a Taiwanese-American printmaker, born in Taipei and raised in Shanghai, China, his work is often inspired by traditional Eastern prints and influenced by the places he has lived: Los Angeles and Savannah.
The government will commit $164.8m over three years to establish escaping violence payments that will provide up to $1,500 in immediate cash and a further $3,500 in kind for goods or direct payments of bonds, school fees or other items. The payments will be provided under a two-year trial.
There will also be an additional $12.6m going to support accommodation for women and children experiencing family and domestic violence, and $35.1m for violence prevention campaigns.
The government will not proceed with a measure to extend the early release of superannuation to victims of family and domestic violence.
The 2021-22 budget includes measures to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, women with disability, and culturally and linguistically diverse women.
– WHO Magazine
“Powerfully peels back the insidious nature of domestic violence. A timely look at an issue ravaging the nation.”
– The West Australian
“An eye-opening series on the horrors of domestic abuse and coercive control. See What You Made Me Do should be compulsory viewing if we are to have any chance of eradicating this insidious and pervasive disease hiding in plain sight.” – The Daily Telegraph
On average, one woman a week is killed by a current or former partner in Australia and most Australians who experience domestic abuse will never report it and their abusers will never be called to account .