Collingwood $495,000 for social media push Ellen Ransley
Creditnot provided: News Corp AustraliaThe Collingwood Football Club and the Julia Gillard-led Women’s Leadership Institute have each received almost half a million dollars in federal funding to tackle technology-based abuse of women.
The Labor Party will distribute $3 million to seven community, health and research institutions in the first round of a $10 million program aimed at eradicating the growing pattern of abuse.
Communications Minister Michelle Rowland said women disproportionately experience technology-facilitated stalking, threats and coercion. This is why fighting this phenomenon was a “national priority” for the government.
The Collingwood Community Foundation will receive more than $495,000 for a social media campaign to tackle technology-based abuse against women.
NCA NewsWire / Josie Hayden Credit: News Corp AustraliaFor the $495,355 it received in funding, Collingwood will use its social media reach and the upcoming football season to “challenge social norms that contribute to abuse and promote positive and respectful behavior and responsibilities among men and boys and the broader foster community ”.
In its description of the project, the club’s community foundation said the project will promote a “series of campaigns and initiatives to raise public awareness”.
“And address the fundamental understanding that abuse of women is not only physical, but also psychological and emotional in the form of technology-based violence through coercive and threatening behavior,” the description reads.
The leadership of the Global Institute for Women will spend more than $494,000 on a project that “combines cutting-edge evidence and community engagement to develop a systems-based approach to preventing technology-based abuse of women.”
Communications Minister Michelle Rowland said the grants program will give more women access to “critical resources and services”.
Credit NCA News Wire / Gary Ramage: News Corp Australia Rowland said the grant program would ensure more women and children “have access to crucial resources and services.”
“Including proactive and preventative tools to stop this abuse in the first place,” she said.
Electronic Safety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant said the projects harnessed the “unique expertise” of people like Collingwood and the institute to tackle tech abuse from “different angles”.
“Online abuse is closely linked to family, domestic and sexual violence,” she said.“Too often we see technology being misused by perpetrators to harass, coerce and abuse women and children.
“Interventions like those funded today will help prevent gender-based technology abuse before it happens, build community capacity, and promote non-violent online spaces. »
