All Publications
Sep 2009
The new Rudd Labor Government’s approach to domestic/family violence and homelessness has the capacity to radically address decades of neglect in these fields. This paper explores the potential impact of the Homelessness White Paper and the National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women. In particular it examines what impact the new approach may have on the incidence of domestic/family violence and the demand for crisis accommodation. It also discusses the impacts on the specialist service provider sector and what risks may need to be addressed.
Sep 2009
Please use this nomination form if you wish to nominate for one of the Committee positions up for election in November 2009.
Sep 2009
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Feb 2009
Annual Report for the Women's Services Network for the 2007-08 financial year.
Dec 2007
Annual Report for the Women's Services Network for the 2006-07 financial year.
Dec 2006
Annual Report for the Women's Services Network for the 2005-06 financial year.
Feb 2006
The WESNET Committee has made it a priority to respond to the issue of perpetrator programs. This is an issue which for ten years now has been of great interest and concern to women’s services, and which has seen a real growth in programs and policies. In 1996 the National Forum on Domestic Violence hosted by the Commonwealth Office of the Status of Women made a series of recommendations regarding perpetrator programs. It is timely that women’s services nationally make some comment.
Feb 2006
WESNET has an ethical sponsorship policy to ensure that sponsorship received by WESNET is ethical. We will only accept funding from organisations that promote and practise a work environment that is free from sexism, racism, homophobia or any other form of employee oppression.
Dec 2005
Annual Report for the Women's Services Network for the 2004-05 financial year.
Aug 2004
This report, funded under the former Partnerships Against Domestic Violence (PADV) Program as part of project examining accommodation and outreach options for women, provides an assessment of the progress that has been made in expanding accommodation and support options available to women experiencing, or escaping, domestic violence and what options or directions might be pursued in the future.
