LIFE Campaign Newsletter 17 Oct 2021
Two Online Events coming up
7.30 pm Tues 19 Oct Single Mothers vs poverty
7.30 p, Wed 27 Oct Climate Change, Jobs and Living Incomes - the Links
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Single Mothers vs poverty: from ‘Melbourne’s Moral Decay’ to the UN 7:30pm Tues 19 Oct (Australian Eastern Summer Time)
Please join us, and help us to get the word out in anti-Poverty week, for our next tutorial, via Facebook live stream and Zoom.
We ask you to:
1. RSVP at the Facebook event, and if you’d like to participate by zoom, register at the zoom link also.
2. Invite your friends, preferably by personal direct message / email / text, or else by sharing the Event to your Facebook friends.
3. Share the Event with any Facebook Groups you belong to.
4. Invite members of your organisation, group, union.
Our presenters at this LIFE tutorial, will make the vital links between this year’s inspiring mobilisations for women’s rights to personal safety, and the underlying government policies that put women in danger, and must be changed.
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Terese Edwards from The National Council For Single Mothers and Their Children, and Aradia Sayner, founder of Women in Poverty a board member of NCSMC are the presenters. Terese is a tireless advocate with a great depth of understanding of how government policies are responsible for women, and especially single mothers, and their children, living with poverty, insecurity, homelessness, and domestic violence.
Terese, Aradia and the NCSMC find brave and creative ways to work with women who want to speak out and win changes to government policies that make their lives, and the lives of their children, so difficult.
At this LIFE tutorial they will talk about the most recent issues that NCSMC has taken up. These include:
* Speaking at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, in support a complaint against the Australian Government lodged under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women to the United Nations.
* Winning the support (along with ACOSS) of the Australian Human Rights Committee’s recommendation to make the punitive ParentsNext program voluntary, but losing to a tied vote in the Senate.
* Calling out the government’s Women’s Safety Summit for its silence on the social safety net, and detailing to it eleven ways that social security works to harm women.
* Appearing before the Select Committee on Job Security, with statements from single mothers.
They will also explain how NCSMC was established and is governed, how it is fearless in speaking out against the government despite being government funded, how NCSMC manages to both provide a nurturing community for women who need privacy and security, and to elicit brave statements of personal struggles to build the case for change and win support.
There will be time for brief questions and comments, especially to discuss how the LIFE demands address these issues, and how to generate wider solidarity with single mothers and their children.
Climate Change, Jobs and Living Incomes - the Links
7.30 pm Wed 27 Oct 2021 (Australian Eastern Summer Time)
Guests: Colin Long – Just Transitions Organiser, Victorian Trades Hall Council (VTHC), Luke Skinner – Climate Justice Union (CJU) Western Australia, And others TBC.
Save the date and watch the LIFE Facebook page for the event link, more speakers and registration details.
1. Keep the Rate! 2. No-One Left Behind!
3. End Harassment! For Social Security with Dignity. You can read our "Statement of Demands" in full: click here
The Statement is in 2 parts: first, why the Demands are necessary, second the Demands in more detail.
The Statement is reinforced with supplementary statements about essential issues associated with Living Incomes for Everyone. You will see these in future newsletters.
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