WA Health awards $1.56 million for family and domestic violence prevention
WA Health has allocated $1.56 million for a three-year program to improve screening rates for family and domestic violence during pregnancy, starting this year. Western Australia has the second highest rate of reported physical and sexual violence perpetrated against women in Australia, second only to the Northern Territory. The nationwide projected health burden of family …
Midland Child Advocacy Centre receives $4.5 million grant
A child advocacy centre in Midland, set to help thousands of children and families experiencing trauma, has been given $4.5 million in State Government funding. The Lotterywest grant will support the construction and fit out of the new Midland Child Advocacy Centre, run by Parkerville Children and Youth Centre. The centre will wrap services around …
McGowan Government levels the playing field for women’s sport
Women’s sport is set to benefit from a new $250,000 annual fund to enable the State’s grassroots clubs to revitalise change rooms and other facilities to accommodate booming participation levels. A lack of adequate facilities has for many years forced women’s sporting teams to use public toilets, cars, bushes or the sidelines of playing fields …
Over $1 million funding allocated to support animal welfare in Western Australia
The RSPCA WA has been provided with two combined State Government grants worth more than $1 million to support animal welfare activities and continue the Pets in Crisis program. A Lotterywest grant of $922,780 will assist in purchasing essential equipment and upgrades for RSPCA WA’s Malaga facility. It will also support RSPCA WA’s regional work …
Winterfold Primary Receives State Government Water Wise Grant
Member for Fremantle, Simone McGurk, has congratulated Winterfold Primary School which is among the WA schools to benefit from more than $100,000 worth of school projects being funded by the McGowan Government to give students practical tools to divert waste from landfill. The school has been awarded a $4,393 grant. Successful schools around WA will …
Real stories to guide State Government’s 10-Year Strategy on Homelessness
Western Australians who have experienced homelessness are being encouraged to share their stories as part of the development of the State Government’s 10-Year Strategy on Homelessness. Announcing the strategy as part of Homelessness Week 2018, Community Services Minister Simone McGurk said the strategy needed to consider first-hand accounts of how individuals coped with homelessness and …
Local groups share in community grants to wage the war on waste
Member for Fremantle, Simone McGurk, has congratulated local community groups Fremantle Education Resource Network, Waste Recycling Education, Hamilton Hill Community Group, and Hilton Harvest Community Garden set to benefit from a share in $242,657 worth of funding under the McGowan Government’s Community Grants Scheme (CGS). Environment Minister Stephen Dawson today announced 4 grants $20,315 for …
Federal Labor commits $5 million for Fremantle Urgent Care Clinic
State Member for Fremantle, Simone McGurk, has applauded Labor’s Federal Candidate for Fremantle, Josh Wilson, for securing a $5 million commitment for the Fremantle Urgent Care Clinic. A Shorten Labor Government will invest $5 million for the new Urgent Care Clinic at Fremantle Hospital. The Urgent Care Clinic will deal with urgent but non-life threatening illnesses and …
Southwell Primary School to receive big boost in science resources
Southwell Primary will receive a funding grant of $10,000 from the McGowan Government to purchase new science equipment for their classrooms. The school is among the more than 60 small public primary schools which will receive funding from the McGowan Government to equip their schools with much-needed science resources. The selected schools, each with less …
Revenge porn reform
The McGowan Government has today introduced new legislation into State Parliament which criminalises the non-consensual distribution of intimate images, a phenomenon colloquially known as ‘revenge porn’. Intimate images are commonly distributed via the electronic posting of images on social media platforms, such as Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram and Twitter, sharing via a text message or email, …