Series 18 - Violence (including Domestic violence, Sexual assault, Rape, Gun lobby and violence on television and video)


Date Range1978 - 2004
ProvenanceWEL Cairns
Description

Contains reports; letters; brochures; newspaper clippings on topics including domestic violence, child abuse, rape, firearms

ArrangedOrder imposed by Archives

Inventory Listing

Rape

Contains correspondence;
Reclaim the Night flyers and information;
Newsclippings;
Minutes of Sexual Violence Task Force;
Report "Impressions of a Government Medical Officer involved in examining rape victims for Police";
Position Paper - Department of Justice "The Law Relating to Rape in Marriage and Associated Matters".

Creator WEL Cairns
Date range 1978 - 2004
Inventory Identifier WELC00261 Box Number 56 Series 18
Taskforce on Women and the Criminal Code

Contains Issues Paper 4 - June 1999 - Sentencing, the defence of duress, economic crime, drugs and other addictions; Issues Paper 5 - June 1999 - Police powers and bail; Issues Paper 6 - June 1999 - Abortion and surrogacy; WEL Cairns response to No. 6

Creator WEL Cairns
Date range 1999
Inventory Identifier WELC00561 Box Number 56 Series 18
Draft report of the Vagrants, Gaming and other offences Act Review Committee

Contains copy of report

Creator WEL Cairns
Date range 1993
Inventory Identifier WELC00562 Box Number 56 Series 18
Firearms

Contains correspondence, brochure, copy of newpaper clippings:
Address by the Hon. Tim Fischer, MP titled "Legitimate Guns Forever or Guns Never", 19th June 1996.

Creator WEL Cairns
Date range 1993 - 1997
Inventory Identifier WELC00346 Box Number 56 Series 18
The Small Boarding House Submission
Closed
Child abuse
Child sexual abuse

Undated correspondence;
Information Kit - National Child Protection Council;
Invitations and flyers
Brochures - Queensland Centre for Prevention of Child Abuse;
Commonwealth Parliament Matter of Public Importance - Child Abuse - Senator the Hon Donald Chipp, MP, Leader of the Australian Democrats, 7 December 1983

Creator WEL Cairns
Date range 1983 - 1993
Inventory Identifier WELC00262 Box Number 56 Series 18
WEL Cairns comment to the Attorney General (QLD) on the Final Report of the Criminal Code Review Committee to the Attorney General, June 1992

January 1993 WEL Cairns comment on the Final Report of the Criminal Code Review Committee to the Attorney General

Creator WEL Cairns
Date range 1993
Inventory Identifier WELC00163 Box Number 56 Series 18
WEL Cairns comment to the Women's Policy Unit (QLD) on the Draft Report from the Violence Against Women Workshop 1993

WEL Cairns comment on Draft Report from the Violence Against Women Workshop, 28 July 1993;
Draft Report from the Violence Against Women Workshop, 22-23 April 1993;
Cross references between the original draft plan and the revised version.

Creator WEL Cairns
Date range 1993
Inventory Identifier WELC00264 Box Number 56 Series 18
Domestic violence

Contains brochures on safety for women;
Correspondence and news releases;
Minutes of Victims of Crime Association meetings;
Notes of a meeting of the Sexual Violence Task Force;
Victims of Crime Association "The Services, Structure, and Information Booklet";
National Committee on Violence Against Women Position Paper, May 1991

Creator WEL Cairns
Date range 1984 - 1996
Inventory Identifier WELC00345 Box Number 56 Series 18
Domestic Violence

Contains correspondence, letters to the editor, flyers, brochures;
Criminal Offence Victims Amendment Regulation (No1) 1997;
Family Court of Australia - Chief Justice's Direction as to the management of cases involving family violence - 15 January 1993;
Report on the National Committee on Violence Against Women prepared by Christine Nolan;
Public Meeting Address - Domestic Violence in our Community by Fleur Kingham - "Domestic Violence and the Law in Queensland" - 20 April 1988;
Social Survey Report - Public Policy Research Centre - "Community Attitudes Towards Domestic Violence in Australia" - February 1988;
Paper presented at the Australian Institute of Criminology Conference on Domestic Violence, 11-15 November 1985 - "The Foreigner within the Walls" by Alicia Lee, PhD;
Legal Services Bulletin - February 1985 - "Domestic Violence in the ACT, No Easy Solutions";
National Committee on Violence Against Women Position Paper and Operational Guidelines;
Ministerial Statement - "Woman's Sentence" by the Hon K.T Griffin, Attorney General

Creator WEL Cairns
Date range 1981 - 1997
Inventory Identifier WELC00263 Box Number 56 Series 18
Domestic violence

Contains correspondence;
Letter from Judi Moylan, MP Minister for the Status of Women - Issues of violence against women, 18 December 1997;
Cairns Post newsclipping; Stop Violence Against Women - Queensland Government Statement of Policy.

Creator WEL Cairns
Date range 1982 - 1998
Inventory Identifier WELC00386 Box Number 56 Series 18
Women in prison

Contains Amnesty International newsletters on women in prison

Creator WEL Cairns
Inventory Identifier WELC00560 Box Number 56 Series 18

Published by the James Cook University Library, December 2007
Listed by Alan Cockerill
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