The Women’s Leadership Group (WLG), which is made up of women employed at FLS who have experienced incarceration and criminalisation, wrote a powerful submission calling for an end to the expansion of prisons in Victoria. The WLG's submission collated the voices of numerous women who had experienced incarceration to document how punitive bail laws and an under-funded and rigid service-system drive women's incarceration, and women's experiences in prison perpetrate further harm and fuel cycles of...
We made a submission to the Department of Treasury outlining concerns with proposed changes to Governance Standards for Registered Charities.
We made a submission to this Inquiry containing nineteen recommendations.
Our submission highlighted that the criminal justice system fails, and manifestly has done so over decades, despite enormous and blind commitment and investment, to deliver to Victorians meaningful public health outcomes in the context of the ‘war on drugs’.
We provided a submission in relation to impacts on the communities we serve, who are facing the burdens of the pandemic and associated measures within a frame of significant economic, social and health-based disadvantage. The social determinants of health and risk factors are not static and for many, the COVID conditions have amplified the impact of particular or intersecting determinants, such as stress, addiction/ drug or alcohol dependence.
We supported the development of a submission by the Women Transforming Justice Project Women’s Leadership Group, to the Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System
Our submission to the Royal Commission into Victoria's Mental Health System