Pages tagged "policy_equality"
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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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It's time for a National Human Rights Act
House of Representatives, 30 May 2024
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Interview with ABC Radio about National Human Rights Act
Melbourne Drive, 30 May 2024
Kylea speaks with ABC Radio's Ali Moore about how a National Human Rights Act would work with existing state-based legislation and religious freedom in Australia.
Listen to the interview here (Kylea is featured two-thirds the way through the recording).
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Report backs call for federal human rights act
Canberra Times, 30 May 2024
Australia is one of the only democratic nations without an enshrined bill of rights or human rights act. Kylea, who serves on the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, has called for change. "This is not a time for cheap politicking... [or] to drive division," she says.
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Federal Human Rights Act could help prevent policy failures like robodebt, parliamentary inquiry says
The Guardian, 30 May 2024
A parliamentary inquiry has called for Australia to adopt its first ever federal Human Rights Act. Public policy disasters including robodebt and neglect in the aged care sector “may not even have happened if we had a Human Rights Act providing protections for Australians”, Kylea says.
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It’s time Australia had its own Human Rights Act
Media release, 30 May 2024
Kylea has welcomed the release of a new report from the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, which calls for the establishment of a national Human Rights Act to lay the foundations for a fairer, more sustainable, and more inclusive society, and ensure the rights of all Australians are adequately protected.
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Domestic and family violence
House of Representatives, 16 May 2024