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Firing the imagination WHILE old-time machinery, draught horses and the glow of the blacksmith forge were among popular attractions with the older folk at Upper Yarra Museum s Crank Up on the weekend, it was Jeri the Dragon who captured the imagination of two-year-old Edward from Launching Place. Master blacksmith, Dieter Fleckhammer and his team put in more than 300 hours working with fire-breathing forest last year to shape each scale, claw and wing on Jeri who now greets visitors to the forge. See more on Crank Up on page 8. 152379 Picture: GREG CARRICK.
■ Premier Daniel Andrews firm on family violence...
‘No more excuses’ By KATH GANNAWAY THE Royal Commission into Family Violence released Wednesday 30 March has delivered a raft of 227 recommendations to the Victorian Government. Premier Daniel Andrews responded with a broad commitment to implement every one of the recommendations and said work was already underway on recommendations around risk
management and information sharing. “There can be no more excuses,” he said. “Our work begins today to overhaul our broken family violence system from the bottom up.” The commission’s recommendations that call for new approaches cover a number of key areas including the establishment of support and safety hubs in local communities to make it
easier for victims to find help and access a greater range of services. Other recommendations are for: Victims’ safety being forefront over ‘privacy issues’ with a Central Information Point to funnel information about perpetrators to the hubs. An immediate funding boost to services that support victims and families with additional resources for Aboriginal community initiatives, and with a dedicated funding stream
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for preventing family violence. Expanded investigative capacity for police and more specialist family violence courts that can deal simultaneously with criminal, civil and family law matters. Stronger perpetrator programs and increased monitoring and oversight by agencies. Family violence training for all key workforces, including in hospitals and schools.
Among these recommendations, two address the recurring and underlying issues that the Mail touched on in its six-week ‘Stop the Violence Campaign’ in 2011. They are a lack of accommodation for victims, which effectively stops them leaving a violent situation, and the need to address the cause of family violence from an early age. Continued page 3
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