🧵New report released today by Anne Summers confirms women are being forced to choose between staying in violence or living in poverty; between an unsafe home and potential homelessness.
The report doesn't look at the experience of First Nations women in depth, but we did 👇🏾
The report doesn't look at the experience of First Nations women in depth, but we did 👇🏾
We worked with Aboriginal Family Violence Prevention Legal Services all around the country to release our National Report #PathwaysToSafety which drew together the expertise of First Nations women and services.
We identified key barriers to safety: punitive, poverty-level social security payments (including #ParentsNext), a lack of affordable housing, threat of child removal and discriminatory and racist policing.
Government failings have driven communities into poverty and force women to make impossible choices between staying in dangerous situations and facing homelessness, seeking help and potentially risking custody over their children and the constant threat of being disbelieved /end
You can read #PathwaysToSafety here: changetherecord.org.au/pathwaystosafe…
And Anne Summers' report 'The Choice: Violence of Poverty' here: violenceorpoverty.com
And Anne Summers' report 'The Choice: Violence of Poverty' here: violenceorpoverty.com
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
