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Ensuring Housing for All: The Vital Role of Community Voices in Victoria's Housing Policies
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Nurturing Health and Nature: Our Submission to the National Health and Climate Strategy
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Pride Month blog: The prevention of discrimination and bigotry must be a collective effort
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Striving for Gender Justice: A Vision for an Equitable Australia and Solutions for Change
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A Call for Systemic and Cultural Change: WHGNE's Submission to the CSIRO's Transforming Australian Food Systems Discussion Paper
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International Women's Day 2023
Lifting girls and women out of poverty and financial hardship, increasing opportunities to contribute and connect, and fostering equitable access to technology and safer online spaces has become integral to the achievement of gender equality.
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Realising housing equity: the Future Fund and beyond
Urgent measures are needed to transform housing from “profit-creating asset” to universally accessible human right and basic service.
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Statistics are only part of the picture when it comes to raising awareness
How can we know so much about gender-based violence – its prevalence, its causes, strategies for prevention, early intervention and response – yet continue to live with the devastating loss of one woman a week because of intimate partner violence, while many more suffer pain, distress, fear and loss of autonomy in their daily lives?
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Hearing Benambra Community Consultation
Our organisation aims to represent the needs and elevate the voices of women and gender diverse people living and working in northeast Victoria and the Goulburn Valley – the region we serve. With that in mind, we recently undertook the Hearing Benambra Community Consultation Project, to find out what matters to people in northeast Victoria.
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My Powershift Experience
Hey there! I’m Charlie, and I co-run the Climate Letter Project with my cousin Eadie. This week, Eadie and I were fortunate enough to be funded by Women’s Health Goulburn North East, and sent to the radical online Power Shift Youth Climate Summit by the Australian Youth Climate Coalition.
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Gender Equity Community of Practice
The WHGNE Gender Equity CoP aims to build practitioner understanding of gender inequality as the root cause of gender-based violence through regular, two-hour capacity building sessions. Sessions allow time for a guest presentation and subsequent reflection on the issues raised.
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Stay or Leave? 16 Days of Activism Animation
For 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence in 2021, WHGNE formed a creative collaboration with author Cate Kennedy and animator Annie Murray to develop an animation which captured the heart-wrenching experience of women from rural communities in the aftermath of disaster.
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Bushfire Affected Communities
Communities affected by bushfire and its aftermath have unique and specific needs when it comes to the prevention of violence against women and gender responsive recovery. WHGNE provided support and guidance around gender equity and bystander action to regional councils responsible for bushfire affected communities.
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Gender and Disaster (2022)
The GAD POD was formally established by WHGNE and Women's Health in the North in partnership with Monash University Disaster Resilience Initiative in 2015
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The WHGNE Gender Equity Pathway
The Gender Equity Pathway is a whole-of-organisation partnership approach to regional systemic change
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WHGNE and Australia reMADE
The work investigated the idea of the Public Good – what does this mean for Australia, how do we imagine a future that puts Public Good at the center of it, and what can we do to shape that future? After significant work, Australia remade: Reclaiming our purpose has been published.
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16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence 2022
25 July 2022
WHGNE is pleased to mark 16 Days of Activism, starting on 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, and running until International Human Rights Day on 10 December 2022.
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Be brave, make change: Embedding cultural learning in everyday practice
30 May 2022
By embedding shared learning and story-telling in its everyday practice, WHGNE hopes to develop a stronger understanding of the rich culture of First Nations peoples that drives our everyday actions for solidarity.
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Creating a values-based workplace
WHGNE’s work is focused on cultural change that leads us towards gender equality. We believe this good work starts with us, so we have developed a set of values that guide how we work together as a team, and how we work with others in our community.
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16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence 2021
25 August 2021
Against the backdrop of the global pandemic and the bushfires of 2020, WHGNE's 16 Days of Activism will focus on supporting communities to keep women and children safe before, during and after natural disaster.
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Invest in social housing and give women and children somewhere to go
July 28, 2021
Domestic and family violence makes a woman’s home the least safe place she can be. But house price and rental inflation is making finding somewhere new to live so difficult, that many women fleeing violence return to perpetrators and the risk of violence. Or into homelessness. We're joining the call on the federal government to invest in changing that.
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A fairer, healthier world for all
April 7, 2021
Realising the "fairer, healthier world for everyone, everywhere" that we are calling for this World Health Day relies on recognition at every level of government and community that such a world can only be achieved by eliminating inequities of every kind.
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We marched, now what?
March 16, 2021
Since walking the streets of Wangaratta with our friends and allies of gender equality and safety for women yesterday, we've been asked so many times, "What happens now?"
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Stand in solidarity with First Nations people this January 26
January 22, 2021
We choose to mark January 26, 2021 in reflection, mourning and solidarity with First Nations communities.
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GE4NY 2021 - Implement a gender equity policy
January 20, 2021
One big way you can create meaningful change when it comes to gender equality is to encourage your community group, sporting club or workplace to implement its own gender equity policy.
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GE4NY 2021 - Support businesses that champion diversity
January 19, 2021
When you need to make buying decisions, use it as an opportunity to "vote with your wallet" for businesses that show women and men as equal and diverse in their advertising, that depict people of all life stages, backgrounds, body shapes, ethnicities and roles and that portray images of an inclusive, gender equal community.
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GE4NY 2021 - Diversify your local arts scene
January 14, 2021
A diverse arts scene can go a long way to building understanding, respect and equality in our communities.
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GE4NY 2021 - Include gender non-conforming toys in play with your child
January 13, 2021
The gendered labelling, marketing and display of toys, and the unconscious bias that lies behind our own buying choices, shape children's identities, perpetuate harmful gender stereotypes and can cause children to internalise the attitudes and values that shape gender inequality in later life.
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GE4NY 2021 - Call out sexist behaviour
January 11, 2021
Did you know that gender inequality is propped up by the sexist banter we engage in with each other, the things we say to our kids, the jokes we tell (and laugh at) at work or at the pub, the subtle implications that women and their voices, experience and expertise are worth less than that of men?
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GE4NY 2021 - Share the care
January 10, 2021
Traditional gender roles and stereotypes that place women "in the kitchen" have a lot to answer for, when it comes to the burden of unpaid work that falls on women. And this, in turn, means that women face a disproportionate amount of time out of paid work.
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GE4NY 2021 - Make space for women's voices
January 9, 2021
Every one of us occupies positions in the community where we might make a difference to whether women and gender-diverse people are truly heard or not.
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GE4NY 2021 - Include your pronouns in your email signatures
January 8, 2021
By introducing yourself and your own pronouns, you're taking one small but important step towards creating a community where people feel safe and comfortable being their authentic selves.
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GE4NY 2021 - Use gender-inclusive language
January 7, 2021
We challenge you, in 2021, to ditch the gendered language that is typically thrown around with friends and colleagues - you know, things like, "Hi guys!", or "Ladies and gents..." - and dream up something more inclusive for those collective addresses!
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GE4NY 2021 - Diversify your bookshelf
January 6, 2021
A diverse reading list is a great way of understanding different perspectives on the world, challenging unconscious bias, and stretching that all-important brain muscle.
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16 Days of Activism - Get comfortable being uncomfortable
December 8, 2020
Stay present with discomfort to bring gender equality and social justice into your world.
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16 Days of Activism - Enable and support women's health and rights at work
December 6, 2020
More than ever, workplaces across all sectors need to ensure that they address existing gender inequities and create safe, inclusive settings where women’s rights and health, including their sexual and reproductive health, are enabled and supported.
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16 Days of Activism - Create a culture that embraces difference
December 4, 2020
This 16 Days of Activism, learn about how to look at the intersections of social identity, privilege and oppression, and see how they “sometimes compound themselves, and...create obstacles that are not understood within conventional ways of thinking” (Crenshaw).
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16 Days of Activism - Call out gender-based violence at home and work
December 2, 2020
Employees, employers and the community at large have an obligation to make inclusive, safe, and respectful workplaces and environments the norm, not the exception.
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16 Days of Activism - Empower women as leaders
November 30, 2020
When we empower women as leaders and decision-makers, the community and economy benefit.
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16 Days of Activism - Create work security for women
November 28, 2020
Let’s use this 16 Days of Activism to amplify the discussion about women's economic and work insecurity, and pave the way for future women in our workforce.
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16 Days of Activism - Share and value care
November 26, 2020
This year, in recognition of 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence, we call on you to share and value care in your homes, families and communities. In your workplaces, we ask that you make it possible for others to share the care.
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State budget must not replicate federal failures
October 19, 2020
The Victorian Government has an opportunity and an obligation to respond, via its upcoming budget, to the gendered impacts of COVID-19, and this is why.
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Federal budget fails women
October 7, 2020
Only a federal budget, considered and applied with a gendered lens, could have ensured that the economic and social fallout of COVID-19 resulted in a better, more equitable economy that supported and empowered women and responded to their diverse needs.
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16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence 2020
September 30, 2020
For this year’s 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence, Women's Health Goulburn North East (WHGNE) is advocating for communities to move beyond awareness raising, and towards tangible action, weaving women’s rights and gender equality into our everyday behaviour, practice and the economic, cultural and social fabric of our communities.
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Straightforward guides to sexual and reproductive health
September 23, 2020
We've launched a new set of information resources in plain English about menstruation, endometriosis, polycystic ovarian syndrome, contraception, abortion and menopause, for both community members and professionals working in health, education and community settings.
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The Great Game: Women and community sport
June 16, 2020
Participate in our new podcast series about women in community sport in Wangaratta.
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What is gender equality?
June 2, 2020
Gender equality or gender equity? What is the difference? And what does it mean for you?
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Story-gathering during COVID-19
May 19, 2020
Contribute your story about life during the COVID-19 pandemic to Women's Health Goulburn North East "Reflections from a Distance" story-gathering project.