INDIGENOUS WOMEN'S JUSTICE FORUM

IWJF Newsletter 2004

March |

IWJF Forum Minutes

2003

* 3 December 2003

* 16 September 2003

* 20 June 2003

2004

* 26 March 2004

* 4 June 2004 (Morwell)

* 14 July 2004

2005

VALS held an IWJF on the topic of family violence on 22 March 2005. The following Report contains information about the forum: Indigenous Women's Justice Forum Report - Family Violence Forum.

The following items which you may also find useful were not included in the Report in order to keep the Report as concise as possible:

* Program

* Family Violence Initiatives Booklet

* Minutes of Presentations

* Powerpoint Presentations:

* Community Action (Local and State Levels) - Karen Milward (Interim Co-Chair Indigenous Family Violence Regional Action Group Chairpersons Group and Daphne Yarram (Chairperson Binjirru Regional Council).

* Indigenous Australian Family Violence Task Force Partnership Forum - Estelle O'Callaghan (Aboriginal Affairs Victoria).

* Responding to Family Violence: The Victoria Police Code of Practice for the Investigation of Family Violence - Sandra Russell (Manager, Family Violence Unit - Victoria Police).

* Legal and Legal Related Services - Antoinette Braybrook (Chief Executive Officer - Aboriginal Family Violence Prevention and Legal Service).

* Family Violence Court - Claire Brown (Project Manager: Cultural Diversity Strategy Project - Family Violence - Department of Justice).

* Question Time

* Evaluation

* Feedback Forms

* Aboriginal Affairs Victoria Media Release: "Ten Year Plan to Tackle Indigenous Family Violence"- 11 October 2004.

* Full Report - In Search of Justice: Exploring Alternative Responses to Family Violence in the Victorian Indigenous Australian Community - produced September 2005 by Nicole Bluett-Boyd

* Summary - In Search of Justice: Exploring Alternative Responses to Family Violence in the Victorian Indigenous Australian Community - produced September 2005 by Nicole Bluett-Boyd