Pages tagged "policy_community"
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The harms of social media on young people
There is a growing conversation around the potential harmful impacts of social media on young people- particularly when it comes to their mental health - and we would like to hear your thoughts.
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Interview with ABC Radio about technology-facilitated abuse
ABC News, 1 August 2024
Kylea speaks with Craig Reucassel about the need for legislation and education to address how tracking devices, banking apps, email and other technologies are being used in cases of domestic abuse.
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‘It’s insidious’: The rise of technology-facilitated abuse in domestic violence
Women's Agenda, 30 July 2024
Technology-facilitated abuse is quickly becoming one of the most insidious and fastest growing forms of domestic and family violence, but is an issue that very rarely gets raised, Women's Agenda reports.
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Interview on Afternoon Briefing on domestic violence and technology-facilitated abuse
ABC Afternoon Briefing, 30 July 2024
With four out of five Australian women reporting having experienced technology facilitated abuse, Kylea has convened a roundtable of women’s safety frontline workers, service providers, researchers, advocates, peak bodies and public sector leaders to tackle what she considers "one of the most insidious forms of abuse in our country".
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Urgent need for education on use of technology in domestic abuse: Kylea Tink
The Guardian, 30 July 2024
Kylea is developing an action plan for the Federal Government to tackle technology-facilitated abuse. "Amid our domestic violence crisis, and with tracking and other non-physical abuses on the rise, it’s crucial we start addressing the role of technology in gender and family violence," she says.
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Baby Boomer Community Services Survey
The Northern Sydney Local Health District and USYD have begun recruiting participants for their survey to assess expectations for aged care services and accommodation infrastructure amongst baby boomers in Australia. They are investigating if existing aged care services and infrastructure will meet BB expectations as they become octogenarians. They will also identify changes needed to support services and infrastructure for the BB cohort.
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Independents push for 'right to housing'
RN Drive, 24 June 2024
Kylea speaks with ABC RN about her National Housing and Homelessness Plan Bill and changes to national vaping laws.
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Australia to take Canada's lead with proposed housing laws
Canberra Times, 24 June 2024
Tenants and first home buyers would be better represented through a new housing body under a new crossbench proposal that aims for a "human rights-based approach to housing".
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Pocock, Tink push for 10-year housing and homelessness plan in law
Australian Financial Review, 24 June 2024
Kylea says access to safe and secure housing is a “most basic human right” and that she and Senator Pocock have put forward a Private Members Bill to end the piecemeal, short-term, “too hard basket” approach to national housing policy.
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Should Australia recognise housing as a human right? Two crossbenchers are taking up the cause
The Guardian, 24 June 2024
Paul Karp writes that while "private members’ bills are usually doomed by government indifference to go nowhere", given the current political focus on the housing crisis, "the crossbench are planting a seed in fertile terrain".