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ACTCOSS CALLS ON YOU TO |
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by ACTCOSS
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21 Jun 2006
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Come show the ACT Government that these cuts are unacceptable. Housing is one of our most basic needs, and these decisions will have terrible impacts on the community, on homeless people, on anyone needing housing support in Canberra, and on the community organisations that provide that support. |
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Stand Up for Housing and Homelessness Services!
AN URGENT COMMUNITY SHOW OF SUPPORT FOR HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESS SERVICES IN CANBERRA
Housing and homelessness services in the ACT have been slashed in the ACT Budget, by:
. Cutting $7.3 million from the operating budget of Housing ACT
. Cutting $1.7 million from the Supported Accommodation Assistance Program for homelessness services
. Cuts to community housing organisations
. Drastic funding cuts to Canberra's housing peak bodies: ACT Shelter and CCHOACT
. A projected reduction of over 300 public housing properties by June 2007
. Lowering the maximum income threshold for public housing applicants
Come show the ACT Government that these cuts are unacceptable. Housing is one of our most basic needs, and these decisions will have terrible impacts on the community, on homeless people, on anyone needing housing support in Canberra, and on the community organisations that provide that support.
When: Thursday 22 June 2006,
12 noon
Where: Civic Square
outside the Legislative Assembly
http://www.actcoss.org.au/about/
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Prisons are public housing
by Justice Action
The proposed new prison is an investment of $130 million dollars and recurrent annual expenditure of $20m. Spent in the name of human rights of prisoners and their families, rather than leaving NSW to continue using its prisons for no capital and less cost.
We represented prisoners of Australia a few weeks ago before a Senate Committee hearing defending our right to vote. And we have worked in welfare and advocacy for many decades, currently serving on NSW prisons health and women's boards and supervising community service orders for over twenty years.
Prisoners of the ACT and their families don't want the jail. It is acknowledged by everyone including ACT bureaucrats, that the rate of imprisonment in the ACT will increase from the lowest in Australia - half the average. In fact the proposed prison has 374 cells and the ACT only has 180 prisoners.
Magistrates will use the jail as a more attractive option than sending prisoners one or two hours away to Junee or Goulburn. Prisoners will be twice as likely to go to prison and will spend twice as long away from their families. Yet the ACT has a low crime rate now.
The greater use of prison will cause crime by the dislocation and degradation that is its inevitable consequence.
We desperately speak to you ACT community representatives. Take our housing budget, and let us live with our families with proper support, restorative justice and mentoring.
Jusice Action
http://www.justiceaction.org.au
Related:
Stanhope breaches own Human Rights Act
Jon Stanhope, Chief Minister of the A.C.T has breached his own Human Rights Act by refusing the distribution of a letter to prisoners to consult on the proposed $130 million jail.
http://adelaide.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/15811
Canberra Crimes:
Anyone who's experienced a Canberra winter knows that wintering in a caravan would be a pretty miserable experience. The only thing worse would be out on the street. But that's exactly what's in store for 200 people who have just received eviction notices from the Narrabundah Longstay Caravan Park in Canberra's south.
http://adelaide.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/15883
2 Billion on choppers
The government is spending 2 Billion dollars on death machines
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/06/115165.php
Defence to spend $51b upgrading equipment
The Federal Government plans to spend $51 billion over the next decade on upgrading Defence equipment.
ABC 20/6/06 |
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ACTCOSS CALLS ON YOU TO |
by ACTCOSS
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Current rating: 0
21 Jun 2006
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Stand Up for Housing and Homelessness Services! |
