Budget 2018 has unprecedented chance to address social disadvantage

By Professor Patrick O’Leary, Professor of Social Work, School of Human Services and Social Work
The 2018-19 Federal Budget has the opportunity to make a social impact on equity, safety and restitution to people disadvantaged structurally by violence. Over the past five or so years, there has been significant attention to ravages of violence and abuse, particularly on children and women across the life course.
The costs to society and restraint on human potential can never be underestimated. Rosie Battie was Australian of the Year in 2015 on the basis of her lived experience of domestic violence and her activism to bring about change. Former Chief of Defence David Morrison followed as Australian of the Year on the basis his efforts to challenge gendered violence and raising societies recognition of discrimination and sexism. December 2018 saw the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, after a watershed

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