Monash University research has backed a Wellsprings For Women report into the systemic challenges for refugee and migrant women experiencing family violence. Lack of cultural understanding, a rise in complex cases, cultural abuses like dowry related violence and forced marriages, women wrongly identified as the…
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About Town: The Carleen quaddie and boom gates gone
The ‘Carleen quaddie’ Pakenham-based jockey Carleen Hefel is coming off a red-letter week. She single-handedly rode all four legs of the quaddie at Ballarat last…
