Love, Sex and Intimacy: Respect and Safety in Relationships
This booklet is designed to help you think about love, intimacy and respectful relationships. It is designed to support conversations and encourage a greater awareness of relationship safety.
2018-2019 Engender Equality Annual Report
Our Annual Report summarises achievements and key considerations for 2018-2019.
2019 Submission: Religious Discrimination Bill
This amendments proposed in the Religious Discrimination Bill work against the national framework for the prevention of violence against women by allowing for statements that condone violence against women, limit female independence, and reinforce negative gender stereotypes
2019 Submission: #letherspeak Section 194K Evidence Act
Engender Equality's submission in support of the #letherspeak campaign. Engender advocates for changes to the Evidence Act (Tas) to allow sexual assault survivors to speak about their experience when and how they like to. Shame about sex and sexuality, which extends to sexual assault, is a burden that women have carried for many thousands of years and it is a shame that needs to be abolished. The wide spread experience of shame enables sexual assault perpetrators to target women and if the law can support community initiatives to annihilate this experience then it must do so vigorously.
2019 Submission: Bullying Laws
As a specialist service we support people who have experienced family violence and are intimately aware of the adverse effects and long-term suffering that can result from bullying within intimate relationships and following separation. We are very much interested in raising the profile of coercive control and the range of actions and interactions that cause harm and humiliation to the people who access our services.
Alcohol and other Drug Worker's Guide to Domestic and Family Violence
Women using alcohol and other drugs may be reluctant to contact family violence services for support and AoD services may be the only point of contact for women in violent or abusive relationships. This resource aims to provide basic information to assist you in working with clients who may be experiencing domestic and family violence.
When your patient talks to you about the violence or abuse.
This resource has been developed to assist people working in the health to identify and respond to patients who have experienced or are experiencing family violence. Published in 2015
Supporting Individuals Experiencing Family Violence: A Guide for Mental Health Professionals
The resource has been designed to assist mental healthy professionals to effectively support those why work with who are or have been impacted by family violence.
2017-2018 Engender Equality Annual Report
Our Annual Report summaries achievements and key considerations for 2017-2018.
2018 Opinion Piece: Low Literacy & Women
Given the established links between literacy levels and a range of outcomes for children, women’s low literacy has flow-on effects for society more broadly.
People with lower literacy, whether due to educational attainment, intellectual ability, neurodiversity, health or age, should not be at risk of social exclusion, stigmatisation or being relegated to subordinate roles in society.
2018 Submission: Intergenerational Welfare Dependence
There is clear and compelling evidence that the adverse effects of family violence contribute to inter generational disadvantage. In this submission Engender Equality urges the House of Representative Select Committee to reject an individualistic blaming approach that perpetuates further stigmatisation and harm to the most vulnerable in our communities.
2018 Submission: Family Violence Reforms Bill
Engender Equality asserts that the law should be used as a guide for behaviour and a tool for changing community attitudes towards gender inequality and family violence. This submission outlines Engender Equality's view point on the proposed Family Violence Reform Bill 2018