MELBOURNE: A woman who has shown no remorse, regret or sorrow for holding another woman captive as a slave for eight years will spend the same period behind bars. In case you should think that there is no slavery in Shepparton, just think of the cook who was kept as a slave and never paid in a Shepparton restaurant some few years ago.
Greater Shepparton City Council is committed to fostering cultural celebration and engagement of our diverse community and annually develops a calendar of culturally significant dates. The calendars are distributed to staff, service providers and the community. Here is an opportunity to contribute to the Calendar and win a prize for participating!
About the Goodbye COVID campaign: We are working with local community leaders to encourage people to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Getting vaccinated protects yourself and your loved ones. When enough of us are vaccinated, life will be better for everyone. Here we have Goodbye Covid video in 20 languages, plus text – all to help you.
Stories from women of Chinese-Taiwanese, French-Canadian, Greek-Cypriot, Indian-Malaysian, Italian, Maltese, Nigerian, and Sri Lankan heritage reveal historical events that made a big impact on their life before, and after, coming to Australia.
All NDIS participants aged 16 years and over and carers aged 16 years and over of NDIS participants of any age are now eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. For more information, visit the Department of Health’s website or call the Disability Gateway on 1800 643 787. For help in your language, call TIS on 131 450.
The Department of Health and state-run vaccination services are focusing on increasing access to COVID-19 vaccines. Several strategies are put in place to improve the vaccination rate.
The Ethnic Communities Council of Victoria is establishing a New and Emerging Communities Policy Advisory Committee and is are inviting people from new and emerging communities to work with them to set up this policy committee.
Tokyo: Peter Bol has spent his life running from something and to something. On Wednesday night he might reach his goal. Bol will run for Australia in the 800 metres final at the Tokyo Olympics and is a favourite for a medal. It will be the culmination of a journey that began in Sudan. At the age of four, his family escaped the civil war that would engulf that country for more than two decades.
The German Cycling Federation’s sporting director has been sent home from the Tokyo Olympics after a microphone caught him shouting a racial slur during Wednesday’s men’s time trial. Here, the director of Team Africa Rising responds:
To understand humanity and the effect our words and actions have on one another, we must take the time to understand our place in society in relation to others who may not look like us or follow the same religious tradition or come from a similar country.
As the Development Director for Team Africa Rising, I, along with another colleague, were behind the social media Twitter storm the past two days. Yes, we are still calling for your resignation. And yes, we still believe the German Cycling Federation and the UCI need to take a stronger stance regarding your racist outburst and your conditional apology. However, I do believe, you, the cycling world and frankly, most of us, can learn something from this event and learn some valuable lessons.
A third of migrant and refugee women in a new survey said they experienced some form of domestic and/or family violence.
And temporary visa holders consistently reported proportionately higher levels of domestic and family violence, including controlling behaviours. Temporary visa holders also reported much higher patterns of migration-related abuse and threats (such as threats to be deported or separated from their children).
These are the main findings of a survey of nearly 1,400 migrant and refugee women across Australia, the most comprehensive of its kind in the country.