16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence in 2024

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Upcoming events

Local food systems

Women Gathering facilitation training

16 Days of Activism to highlight prevention in action in northeast Victoria and the Goulburn Valley

Statement around Wangaratta's Rainbow Ball postponement

Women's Health Services Network Response to the 2023 Victorian Budget

Care through disaster

Whether it's climate impacts like fire and flood or a global pandemic, disaster is no longer unprecedented. So what do we need to care for each other well – before, during and after a disaster?

Flood Recovery Wellbeing Grants

Women's Health Goulburn North East Flood Recovery Wellbeing Grants are open for applications from Friday 31 March 2023.In the aftermath of the 2022 floods, WHGNE has heard from women across the flood impacted region.One consistent piece of feedback we heard is that women need opportunities to reconnect and link back in with their communities.Another is the drive to be empowered with the knowledge to navigate disaster safety in response to disaster emergency and recovery phases.  WHGNE understands that communities are best placed to inform what will be most helpful for their recovery, and we have allocated $40,000 to quick response funding.Grants of between $1,250-$5,000 are available for community-based activities, events and projects that support the mental wellbeing of women and girls in flood impacted communities across the Goulburn north-east region.

WHGNE’s Response to the 2022 Federal Budget

Local gender equity organisation, Women’s Health Goulburn North East (WHGNE), has welcomed elements of the federal budget, handed down last night but said it still neglected to fund some equity, care and wellbeing measures that a pandemic-weary public now expected of government.

Response to the National Plan to End Violence Against Women and Children 2022-32

Amanda Kelly, the CEO of WHGNE described the National Plan as thorough and ambitious, adding that WHGNE was pleased to see a focus on holistic, evidence-based solutions, as well as the meaningful acknowledgement of structural, systemic and social inequality as drivers of gender-based violence.

Current Government support for those impacted by the flooding

Joint Statement to increase energy efficiency of Australian homes successful

Building ministers agree to increase energy efficiency standards of Australian homes in 2023, following the submission of a joint statement signed by 105 organisations. The decision will contribute to reducing emissions, increasing health and wellbeing and mitigate the rising cost of living.

Women's Health Services unite on Roe V Wade

Women's Health Services across Victoria have issued a response condemning the imminent overturning of Roe v Wade, expressing solidarity with women and people with a uterus in the United States and calling upon the state and federal governments throughout Australia to expand the provision of affordable abortion through adequate funding and prioritisation of women's sexual and reproductive health.

Local councils secure Victorian funds to prevent violence against women

Women’s Health Goulburn North East is thrilled to see local councils across the Goulburn Valley and north-east Victoria take the lead in working to prevent family violence before it starts, with three councils sharing in state funding to understand and challenge the root causes of violence against women.

Not enough support for Victorian women in Federal budget

The investment in women’s health was a positive moment in a budget that, overall, still struggles to support women in our community. However, even this is not enough to support women in Victoria, with Women's Health Services calling for an extra $5.75 investment per Victorian women.

Joint statement: Victorian women are sick of small change

Victorian women have gotten sicker, more anxious and depressed since the commencement of the COVID19 pandemic. They must be prioritised in this year's Victorian budget.

Victorian women: Sick of small change

Victorian women have gotten sicker, more anxious and depressed since the commencement of the COVID19 pandemic. They must be prioritised in this year's Victorian budget.

Federal funds support domestic violence training for disaster responders

The Federal Government has funded Gender and Disaster Australia to enable the initiative to deliver training for disaster responders.

January 26 is not a day for celebration

The Women’s Health Goulburn North East team has collectively decided not to observe the January 26 public holiday as of 2022, recognising it not as a day of celebration but as a day of remembering, of mourning, survival, protest and resistance.

WHGNE Newsletter: End of year 2021

Wind down, reflect and look forward to 2022 with us...

WHGNE wraps up No Interest Loan Scheme project after 13 years

After 13 years of providing No Interest Loans (NILS) to women who need temporary financial support, Women's Health Goulburn North East is discontinuing its NILS program.

Federal budget lacks broader vision for equality

While the federal budget, delivered on Tuesday, provided long-awaited investment in the domestic violence, childcare, and women’s economic security spaces, these investments were not accompanied by a comprehensive, well-conceived plan for achieving gender equality in Australia, according to a Women's Health Goulburn North East.

Virtual conference explores gender and disaster

The intersections of emergency management, Indigenous land management, climate justice, LGBTIQA+ discrimination and violence against women will be focal points of a virtual, international conference hosted by the Gender and Disaster Pod.

We're marching for an end to violence and sexism

“We’ve had enough.” That is the message of hundreds of women who will march in Wangaratta on March 15 protesting violence against women, and the sexism and gender inequality that drive this violence.

State budget must be a gendered one

With the pandemic continuing to set back gender equality gains in what has been dubbed an Australian “she-cession”, Women’s Health Goulburn North East (WHGNE) has joined Victorian gender equity organisations to call for dedicated investment in gender equality initiatives as part of this year’s state budget.

WHGNE Newsletter: End of year 2020

The end of year is a natural time for reflection - join us in looking over some of our highlights of 2020..

Victorian budget a step in the right direction

Coming on the tail of the Covid-19 pandemic and the 2019-20 bushfires, the 2020/21 Victorian budget has heeded calls for greater investment in women's health, economic empowerment and safety from family violence, and is heading in the right direction when it comes to a gender equal response.

Government must consider gendered nature of homelessness

The cost of inaction on regional homelessness and its gendered drivers is far too great for us to ignore.

WHGNE welcomes violence prevention support

WHGNE Newsletter: Spring 2020

During the pandemic, WHGNE has been thinking about how this disruption might be used to move us forward - how we could 'snap forward', not back.

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