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Massage & Myotherapy Australia has welcomed the second-round consultation on sex work decriminalisation in Queensland, as a responsible approach to implementing these reforms. ‘While we welcomed the recent findings of the Queensland Law Reform Commission (QLRC), they seem to have missed the fact that sex work disguised and advertised as massage has grievous consequences for … Continued
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Friends of the Earth’s Better Buses Campaign has welcomed the findings of Infrastructure Victoria’s Fast, frequent, fair: how buses can better connect Melbourne report launched today, showing the benefits of bus network reform and how the Allan Labor government should prioritise investment in better bus services. The report details how an uplift in Melbourne’s bus … Continued
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Announced today: The architects, designers, and students who emerged victorious in the ILLUMANATE Living Building Challenge® Design Competition. 6 December | The Living Future Institute of Australia (LFIA) today announces the winners of the ILLUMANATE Living Building Challenge® Design Competition, in partnership with Development Victoria. Through three categories, professional, student (university), and people’s … Continued
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Announced today: The architects, designers, and students who emerged victorious in the ILLUMANATE Living Building Challenge® Design Competition. 6 December | The Living Future Institute of Australia (LFIA) today announces the winners of the ILLUMANATE Living Building Challenge® Design Competition, in partnership with Development Victoria. Through three categories, professional, student (university), and people’s … Continued
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The Victorian Mental Illness Awareness Council (VMIAC) is leading a group of fifteen community sector peaks and mental health organisations calling on the Victorian Government to commit to a timeline and plan to establish a Consumer Leadership Agency as outlined in Recommendation 29 of the Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System. The Royal Commission … Continued
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The election of Labor’s Eden Foster to the Victorian seat of Mulgrave means that now, for the first time, women make up half the members of the State’s Upper and Lower Houses. EMILY’s List CEO Pamela Anderson said that equal gender representation in the Victorian Parliament – 64 women and 64 men – was testament … Continued
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Melbourne, November 28: Building 60,000 new social housing homes, an improved definition of ‘affordable housing’, tackling discrimination in the private rental market, and improving security of tenure are recommendations from the Inquiry into the Rental and Housing Affordability Crisis in Victoria that will help protect older Victorians from homelessness. Housing for the Aged Action Group … Continued
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Community Housing Industry Association Victoria is urging the Victorian Government to heed a parliamentary committee’s call for a surge in social housing, as the state grapples with a worsening rental crisis. The ‘inquiry into the rental and housing affordability crisis in Victoria’ recommends the government build an additional 60,000 social housing dwellings over the … Continued
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Road Safety Mobile Camera Operators Hit Back An application has been lodged today by the Community and Public Sector Union – Victoria with Fair Work Australia for a ballot of members who operate mobile road safety cameras to take protected industrial action to win a fair deal from the private operator, Serco Asia Pacific Pty … Continued
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With the second stage of sex work decriminalisation in Victoria set for 1 December 2023, Massage & Myotherapy Australia, is calling for protections for massage therapists against the grievous fallout of these reforms. Mrs Davey, CEO Massage & Myotherapy Australia said, ‘If sex work is to be normalised in the community as real work, and … Continued
