From: "Rosie Batty - Never Alone"
Subject: My letter to Malcolm Turnbull
Date: 16 March 2017 08:41:21 AM AEDT
To: <[email address suppressed]>

Dear OWNA: Aloma

Throughout Luke’s short life I found myself in and out of the court system more times than I could count. This was incredibly stressful.

Too many family violence victims face similar situations every day.

Many people cannot afford legal representation and one of the few avenues of support available is the Community Legal Centre network across the country. This also includes Women’s Legal Services.
Sign my letter asking the Prime Minister to save Community Legal Centres.

From 1 July 2017, Community Legal Centres across Australia will be forced to close their doors or turn victims away due to a 30% cut to Commonwealth funding.

The ripple effect of these cuts will be huge, family violence victims will have to face their abuser without legal representation and without additional support.

I am asking the Prime Minister to intervene urgently to reverse these cuts. You too can sign on to my letter here. 

As the federal budget nears, it is critical to ask the Prime Minister to reverse these proposed funding cuts and keep Community Legal Centres open. They must be able to adequately support family violence victims at their most vulnerable, particularly in regional and remote communities where access to justice is most difficult.

I hope you’ll join me  - add your name to the letter here.

Thanks for standing with me, 

And the Never Alone team

You have probably heard a lot in the media about the Pap Test Program changing. From December 1st , the current Pap Test Program (also known as Pap Smear) will be replaced by the Cervical Screening Program which will include a Primary HPV test rather than a Pap test.   There has been a lot of media about this so we wanted to give you the right information so you know how these changes will affect you.These changes are a result of new evidence, better technology and will help improve early detection of cervical cancer and save lives.   The new National Cervical Screening Program will: invite women to participate in the National Cancer Screening Register replace the Pap test with the more accurate Cervical Screening Test invite women aged 25 to 74 years to undertake the test increase the time between tests from two years to five years invite women 70 to 74 years to have an exit test   Please take the time to read more information about the changes and the reasons behind the changes on the ACCF website and if you would like to know more, here is the official website from the Department of Health.   We urge you to talk to your doctor or health practitioner about what these changes mean for you specifically and until 1st December, continue with your Pap tests if you are due to have one. We will update you as we find out more, but make sure you keep up to date on our Facebook page and our website at www.accf.org.au   Kind regards Joe Tooma CEO, Australian Cervical Cancer Foundation

View this email in your browser 2016-17 Aged Care Approvals Round – Allocation of  Short-Term Restorative Care Places The Minister for Aged Care and Minister for Indigenous Health, the Hon Ken Wyatt AM, MP today announced the allocation of 475 new Short-Term Restorative Care (STRC) places worth an estimated $34.7 million. A total of 400 STRC places will take effect in 2016-17 with a further 75 taking effect in 2017-18. The STRC results from the 2016-17 Aged Care Approvals Round (ACAR), including details of the successful approved providers, are available on the department's website. The STRC programme increases the care options available to older people, through a time-limited (up to 56 days), goal-oriented and multidisplinary package of services. The programme may be delivered in a home/community setting, a residential aged care setting, or a combination of both. Eligibility for STRC is determined by a comprehensive assessment undertaken by an Aged Care Assessment Team. My Aged Care comprehensive assessors will be able to begin assessing clients across Australia for STRC eligibility from Monday 27 February 2017. From this date, the new STRC providers will be able to add details of their new services and allocated places to the My Aged Care website. This information will support assessors in making service referrals, and will supplement the national list of STRC services now available on My Aged Care. For more information about STRC please visit the STRC website, or contact STRC@health.gov.au. The results of the second phase of the 2016-17 ACAR covering its residential aged care and capital grant components are anticipated to be announced by mid-2017. Ageing and Aged Care Group Department of Health Copyright © 2017 Advice to the Aged Care Industry, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you provided your details to the department or you opted in to receive our advice messages. If you are not already receiving these messages for the aged care sector, you can subscribe atagedcare.health.gov.au/AgedCareUpdates If you are unsubscribing from this service and you're a provider of aged care services (funded under theCommonwealth Aged Care Act 1997 or via a CHSP grant agreement), the department requests that you supply an alternate email address, for example a group mailbox, to continue receiving important information for your organisation. Do you need to update your contact details? You can update your subscription preferences in MailChimp and change your email address or organisation type. If you have problems updating your information, email aacei@health.gov.au for help.

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The Great Australian Dream–

Housing for ALL

 

Saturday February 11, 2017 (12pm – 2pm)

Speakers

Senator Lee Rhiannon 

•  Australian Greens Senator for NSW

Prof Alan Morris (UTS),

• Prominent urban and housing studies scholar
• Author: The Australian Dream

Emeritus Professor Frank Stilwell (PhD)

• Emeritus Professor in Political Economy at the University of Sydney.
• One of the preeminent economists in the field of Political Economy in Australia.
• Author of eleven books including ‘Economic Inequality’, ‘Who Gets What?’ & ‘Reshaping Australia’

Katherine McKernan

• CEO Homelessness NSW

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