Child protection workers and foster carers are organising for more resources because the system is dangerously overstretched, reports Janet Parker.
Janet Parker
RtN rallies are traditionally held on the last Friday of October to demand an end to violence against women.
Two important issues facing residents in Fremantle and its surrounds are the proposed Roe 8 highway extension and new container facility at Kwinana Outer Harbour. 91自拍论坛 Weekly鈥檚 Janet Parker spoke to four progressive candidates contesting council elections on October 19 about them.
91自拍论坛 Weekly鈥檚 Janet Parker spoke to four progressive candidates running for City of Fremantle and nearby City of Cockburn councils about their views on local government and campaign priorities.
A newly-formed refugee and asylum seeker-led organisation 鈥 Justice for Refugees 鈥 coordinated national protests on September 14 to demand an end to the discrimination they face under Australia's onshore asylum seeker policy.
Six hundred people braved the cold, wet weather to gather on the steps of Western Australia鈥檚 parliament on September 3 and call for choice and compassion at the end of life.
Extinction Rebellion activist and Socialist Alliance member Petrina Harley spoke to 91自拍论坛 Weekly about the media beat-up of their action at the WA Parliament.
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The day after the May 18 federal election, as people were reeling from the unexpected result and taking time to regroup, the initiators of Extinction Rebellion WA hosted a picnic at the Hilton Harvest Community Gardens near Fremantle. One hundred and fifty people attended and, while there was some licking of post-election wounds, what dominated was a sense of hope and determination.
The dual trial of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) in Western Australia has ended with a bilateral agreement signed on February 1 by the WA state and federal governments.
The WA model got the guernsey and will be locally run and administered. Starting in July, it will be rolled out to an estimated 39,000 people over the next three years. WA will pay all the administration and operating costs but governance responsibilities will be shared nationally.
Drawing by S Nagaveeran.
From Hell to Hell
By S Nagaveeran
Writing through Fences
2015
Email fenceswritingthrough@gmail.com for copies
From Hell to Hell is the powerful new work of poems and drawings by S Nagaveeran, also known as Ravi.
In detention for 33 months in Nauru, Ravi turned to writing and drawing as a way of dealing with the emotion and despair that overwhelmed him.
Under the cover of Christmas, 10 peak representative bodies of people with disability were defunded by the federal government.
Hang on, how does that work? Is this government not rolling out the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) that seeks to consult widely with people with disabilities and their advocates? Is this not the promise of a new arena of flexibility and choice, a 鈥渃onsumer-led鈥 initiative that puts disability rights and voice front and centre?
In the WA election the Socialist Alliance ran in the seats of Perth, Fremantle and Willagee and won 0.9%, 1.2% and 2% of the vote respectively.
Willagee candidate Sam Wainwright said: "While small votes in absolute terms, for us they represent a modest increase and contain some important indicators."
Wainwright, a City of Fremantle councillor representing the Hilton ward, said that this was the first time the Socialist Alliance had run in Willagee, most of which has a more working-class character and more state housing tenants than Fremantle.
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