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'One of the nation's busiest community legal centres is on the verge of cutting half its staff.'

Women's rights advocates want a full overhaul of the way governments deal with domestic violence to stop the large numbers of women being killed. So far this year 34 women have been killed in Australia - including two women in New South Wales who were allegedly killed by their partners in the last week. Activists say governments need to prioritise anti-violence programs and give them the funding they need. They say domestic violence tears at the fabric of society.

Women's rights advocates have called for an overhaul of the way the Government deals with domestic violence to stop the rising number of women being killed.

Shiran Illanperuma, a recent University of Sydney graduate, came to Australia in 2010 from the United Arab Emirates. He finished his studies in Media and Communications last year, and returned to the UAE when his student visa expired. While at USyd, he helped found the Autonomous Collective Against Racism and served as one of the collective’s four inaugural Office-Bearers. Back at home, he’s found steady, albeit trying, work as a reporter and a junior editor for a health and science journal.

The Opposition has shifted-up a gear in its application of pre-Budget pressure on Human Services Minister Senator Marise Payne, bringing in a raft of welfare, charity and consumer law groups to detail their current problems with the massive Department of Human Services and its payments systems ahead of a massive $1 billion core technology overhaul.

Community legal centres around Australia will no longer have their budgets slashed by $25.5 million over the next two years, federal Attorney General George Brandis announced last week in a reversal of cuts handed down in the 2014 budget.

The case of Melissa Dunn, an Indigenous teenage girl violently arrested in 2012, shows why NSW needs a better approach to police complaints

Short of cash? Can't get a credit card? Can't get a bank loan? If you believe the ads from a new breed of short-term lenders you simply head for your local pawnshop, or even the internet, borrow the cash and move on. Photo: ABC website.

Watch the story of Melissa Dunn and her treatment by the NSW Police Force on the ABC website. March 2015 - ABC 7:30 Report

The federal government will use an extra $230 million in homelessness funding to encourage the states to better target people who most need help. The federal government will use an extra $230 million in homelessness funding to encourage the states to better target people who most need help. - See more at: http://www.skynews.com.au/news/national/2015/03/23/more-fed-funds-to-tac... The federal government will use an extra $230 million in homelessness funding to encourage the states to better target people who most need help. - See more at: http://www.skynews.com.au/news/national/2015/03/23/more-fed-funds-to-tac... The federal government will use an extra $230 million in homelessness funding to encourage the states to better target people who most need help. - See more at: http://www.skynews.com.au/news/national/2015/03/23/more-fed-funds-to-tac...