Mechanical engineer, social advocate, and writer What are you enjoying doing at the moment? Working on the script for a motorsport podcast and catching up on a lot of cycling with friends. What is the best thing that happened to…
The WRAP #41 – Mainstream Multiculturalism, Human Rights and 60 Seconds with Shabnam Daliri
Greetings WRAPpers! April has brought us the highly anticipated findings from the Royal Commission into Family Violence. As an organisation that works to promote women’s health, safety and well-being, we couldn’t be prouder that research we’ve undertaken has contributed to…
Family violence in Victoria: a mainstreamed multicultural response
This month family violence prevention came a long way here in Victoria. Not only were the 2000+ pages of the Royal Commission into Family Violence findings handed down, the government took immediate action by allocating half a billion dollars to…
International students’ rights: it’s time for change
It’s a little known fact but an important one: there are more people arriving into Australia as temporary migrants than there are recently arrived permanent migrants. As of December 2015 there were over 1 million people living in Australia on…
60 seconds with Shabnam Daliri
Community worker, international student and equality advocate What is the best thing that happened to you today? I talked to my big sister on Viber. She is my only sister, I do love her and she means everything to me.…
Who cares for our carers?
Nurse, doctor, teacher, lawyer: professions many of us and, no doubt, our parents would have typically cited as the things ‘to be’ as a grown-up. But aged care worker? For many immigrant and refugee families, caring for the elderly isn’t something…
THE WRAP #39- The power of language, our take on the Royal Commission and workforce diversity, and 60 seconds with Yue Gao
The WRAP is back! The Chinese Year of the Red Fire Monkey already seems to be whizzing past us so we’re grateful for the extra day this leap year brings us! MCWH have been busy – we hosted our NETFA…
FGM: Focusing on Girls' Minds
There is power in words. Because words make meaning and can have concrete, practical effects on people’s lives: they can liberate or denigrate. There’s a reason why it’s more appropriate, for example, to refer to women who have endured violence…
Why do we need a diverse violence prevention workforce?
It’s a well-known statistic by now: nearly half (46.8%) of the Victorian population and almost a quarter of Victorians speak a language other than English (ABS 2011). The reality today is that cultural diversity is closer to mainstream than marginal. Logically, you…
60 seconds with Yue Gao
GAP Project Officer and aspiring pole-dancer What are you enjoying doing at the moment? Exploring the city with my parents who are visiting from China and enjoying being with them. If you were a super-heroine, what powers would you like to…