Abbott’s ‘budget crisis’, CALD women’s loss?: Service providers explore the impact of funding cuts

Lesley Pruitt; Gemma Hamilton; Georgina Heydon; Ceridwen Spark

doi:10.1080/10361146.2017.1332157

Abbott’s ‘budget crisis’, CALD women’s loss? Service providers explore the impact of funding cuts

Lesley Pruitt, Gemma Hamilton, Georgina Heydon, Ceridwen Spark

Politics & International Relations

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Abstract

Women have been disproportionately affected by funding cuts to services following the 2008 global financial crisis. Using a feminist intersectional analysis of austerity measures applied to family violence (FV) services in Victoria, Australia, including 11 service provider interviews, we find that: the Australian government drew on global narratives of austerity in constructing a ‘budget crisis’, with subsequent cuts to funds addressing FV; budget cuts negatively impacted services’ abilities to address the needs of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) women; there is a lack of qualified interpreters and multilingual services, and; there are missed opportunities to engage and support young CALD people in FV services. Policy recommendations to support FV services and their abilities to help CALD women and young people are provided.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	335-350
Number of pages	16
Journal	Australian Journal of Political Science
Volume	52
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/10361146.2017.1332157
Publication status	Published - 3 Jul 2017

Keywords

Budget cuts
CALD
culturally diverse
family violence
global financial crisis
violence against women

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