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| | | The government will introduce new measures to target perpetrators of financial abuse, as part of its gender equality plan Building Australia's Future: Labor's Commitment to Women, launched yesterday by Labor senator Katy Gallagher and minister for social ... |
| | | | Over two million Australians, mostly women, have suffered financial abuse at the hands of an intimate partner, sometimes through the weaponisation of the tax system, with impacts that can be "devastating and long-lasting" to survivors and their families ... |
| | | | ... feedback in areas such as definitions and scope. It wants to provide clarification on how family violence and financial abuse occurs outside joint accounts that includes fraudulently or coercively opened accounts, as well as adjust the language around ... |
| | | | ... detailed framework will help Australian life insurers identify family and domestic violence situations, such as financial abuse, and respond "sensitively" to their customers' needs, as well as fostering trust and avoid re-traumatisation through the thorough ... |
| | | | ... access victims' retirement savings, while the current framework for self-managed super funds (SMSFs) enables financial abuse to flourish, a parliamentary inquiry found. The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services investigating ... |
| | | | ... opportunity for us as advocates and policy makers to work together to ensure super is not being used as a mechanism for financial abuse," Kowalczyk said. Minister Jones told Financial Standard that every incident of domestic violence is unacceptable. ... |
| | | | The financial advice profession "lacks consistent protocols" for handling suspected financial abuse and there are insufficient whistleblower protections, according to the Financial Advice Association Australia (FAAA). In its submission to the Parliamentary ... |
| | | | ... not-for-profit sector, last July, the Office for Women released a new resource, Guide to prevention and action on financial abuse within the financial services sector, aimed at helping the financial services sector prevent and address financial abuse ... |
| | | | ... and the UNSW Generated Violence Research Network (GVRN) partnership commented on findings showing economic and financial abuse is linked to domestic and family violence. Statistics show that one in four women and one in 13 men have experienced domestic ... |
| | | | ... for Women will assist the financial services sector to understand how its financial products may be used in the financial abuse of women. The new resource, Guide to prevention and action on financial abuse within the financial services sector, aims to ... |
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