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WESNET Media Release 1 June 2004 “This Commonwealth Government just doesnt get it. It goes from bad to worse” said Maria Hagias, National Chair of WESNET the national peak body working on behalf of women and children who experience domestic and family violence. “WESNET is dismayed that the Commonwealth Governments planned media campaign to address […]

WESNET MEDIA RELEASE 13 May 2004 WESNET The Womens Services Network is pleased to see the Labour Partys Plan to Combat Violence Against Women released today at Australian Parliament House. This comes at a time when the Howard government for the first time in 20 years failed to release a womens budget statement at all. […]

WESNET MEDIA RELEASE 20 February 2004 WESNET, the national peak advocacy body working on behalf of women and children who experience domestic and family violence, is dismayed that the planned media campaign to address domestic violence has been apparently stopped by the Commonwealth Government. On the 17th February 20004 the 7.30 Report (ABC) disclosed that […]

MEDIA STATEMENT 7 September 2001 Australia’s Inaugural Domestic & Sexual Violence Conference Gold Coast, Queensland 5-7 September 2001   More than 450 participants at Australia’s Inaugural Domestic and Sexual Assault conference today condemned the decision of the Victorian Government to refuse Heather Osland’s petition for mercy for the killing of her abusive partner. Conference delegates […]