@matildagirl, We stand with you, holding you all in love.
Archie Moore has spent several months drawing his family tree back 65,000 years on the walls of the Australian Pavilion for the Venice Beinnale for which he won the Golden Lion.
With this year’s theme of “Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere,” Moore won the award for his artwork, kith and kin, at the Australia Pavilion.
Moore said he felt “honoured” to be rewarded for his work. “As the water flows through the canals of Venice to the lagoon, then to the Adriatic Sea, it then travels to the oceans and to the rest of the world – enveloping the continent of Australia – connecting us all here on Earth. Aboriginal kinship systems include all living things from the environment in a larger network of relatedness, the land itself can be a mentor or a parent to a child. We are all one and share a responsibility of care to all living things now and into the future.”
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Matildagirl
@matildagirl Fascinating story, thanks for sharing! BTW, I read a few days ago that the baby girl that got stabbed in the mall massacre is in stable condition and expected to survive. My heart went out to her and her family after her mother died trying to save her. Grateful that she survived and to all those physicians and nurses that took care of her!
@kathleen yes that is good news and apparently a go fund me request has raised over $430,000 for her.
The government is looking into strengthening our knife laws and getting together with the state governments to have the same laws Australia wide. So will see what happens there.
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Matildagirl
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/australia/rallies-across-australia-against-gendered-violence
A dozen rallies will be held in major cities and regional towns on Sunday as part of a series of national events calling for a break in the cycle of violence that has claimed the lives of at least 26 women so far in 2024, according to Destroy the Joint.
These rallies are against domestic violence and the Prime Minister will be joining the March in Canberra with the Government Minister for Women Katy Gallagher.
Last year it averaged 1 women a week being killed in DV so far this year it averaging 1 in 4 days but that includes the women killed in the Bondi Junction stabbing recently.
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Matildagirl
Speaking of homelessness and domestic violence.
In the stabbing incident in the Shopping Centre we had recently the main victims were women which seemed targeted and helped highlight domestic violence here as the number of women killed from domestic violence was rising from 1 a week to 1 every 4 days, there were protests around the country for the Government to act. Homelessness is also rising, we have a rental crisis here, not enough places to rent and landlords being human are raising rents because they can.
So the Albanese government will put an extra $1bn towards crisis accommodation for women and children leaving domestic violence, as part of a multi-billion-dollar housing and homelessness package agreed at national cabinet on Friday.
We already have guaranteed paid leave for people due to domestic violence of 10 days. The government is now also giving $5,000 leaving violence payment.
Homelessness
The commonwealth will double its funding for homelessness under the $9.3bn national agreement, while the states will get another $1bn to help speed up construction on infrastructure to support new housing.
Here is hoping it really does help.
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Matildagirl
@matildagirl Your government is quickly responsive! That's great!
@matildagirl I'm glad your government is being responsive, although I'm sure that more efforts and money will be needed in the future. In the US, we have a mostly non-profit and non-governmental funded network of domestic shelters in many local communities. Many of them are very good, and they get a lot of their monies from individuals and private organizations. Some of them in smaller communities struggle for survival. Please keep us posted on how it's working.
It helps that at the moment we have a Federal Labor government and most states as well. Labor governments over the years have given us things like universal healthcare, superannuation, disability insurance scheme, leave entitlements etc. and so on.
The funds are mainly to help people leave abusive relationships but there is a great need to reeducate men in behavioural changes. Violent men not only kill women but also other men.
I don’t know enough about domestic violence having never experienced it or thankfully knowing anyone who has. We also have the non government agencies, shelters, hotlines to call etc here as well.
Possibly the rise in D V has been due to cost of living increases, inflation and housing shortages which to its credit the government is trying to help with, but I think possibly is a world wide problem at the moment.
The new generations coming through may have different attitudes which will help break the cycles. Abused young people become the abusers and if help is provided early enough it could change that trajectory. Who knows, I don’t know enough to speak with an authority. It would be good though.
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Matildagirl
@matildagirl I'm a huge supporter of universal healthcare in the US, most recently referred to as Medicare for All. I worked on the business side of heath care management all my career, and I can say with confidence that most the inequities and lack of healthcare access in our current US healthcare system can be addressed if we have a broader population participating in the same efficient program that is now just for our seniors.