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Digital Literacy for Older Australians

To develop the digital literacy and online safety of older Australians by providing funding:

(a) to develop and deliver a national online portal for older Australians, including developing digital and smart device training materials and online safety tools for inclusion on the portal ; and

(b) for service providers to develop and deliver:

(i) a national telephone helpline to provide training and support to older Australians who make, or who attempt to make, digital communications or to community organisations to assist such older Australians; and

(ii) educational and training resources for community organisations to use in supporting older Australians to make digital communications; and

(iii) training workshops for people working with older Australians to assist older Australians in making digital communications; and

(iv) training sessions to facilitate school children assisting older Australians to acquire the skills needed to make digital communications; and

(c) for particular community organisations to support older Australians to make digital communications, including by:

(i) delivering training courses to older Australians; and

(ii) purchasing smart devices and internet connection services for the benefit of older Australians; and

(d) for a service provider to administer the funding referred to in paragraph (c); and

(e) to develop and deliver a communications and marketing strategy to promote the measures described in paragraphs (a) to (c); and

(f) for an independent evaluation of the measures described in paragraphs (a) to (e).

This objective also has the effect it would have if it were limited to providing funding for activities:

(a) in relation to postal, telegraphic, telephonic, and other like services (within the meaning of paragraph 51(v) of the Constitution); or

(b) in exercise of the executive power of the Commonwealth.

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Prevention of Domestic Violence

To provide funding:

(a) to develop guides and resources to assist local communities to implement strategies to prevent domestic violence; and

(b) to develop a framework for shared understanding and collaborative action in relation to preventing violence against Indigenous women and children; and

(c) for community-led strategies to prevent domestic violence, particularly in culturally and linguistically diverse communities; and

(d) to develop educational resources to enable witnesses of violence against women and children to take safe and appropriate action; and

(e) to develop and disseminate information and advice to men who have become fathers for the first time about the importance of their involvement in the development and care of their child, including by positive role-modelling; and

(f) for local projects aimed at supporting men who perpetrate, or are at risk of perpetrating, domestic violence in order to reduce the likelihood that they will perpetrate such violence; and

(g) to develop resources to raise awareness of non-physical forms of abuse and the misuse of power and control insofar as these behaviours can lead to domestic violence; and

(h) for domestic violence prevention strategies focussing on education, employment and empowerment, particularly for women from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

This objective also has the effect it would have if it were limited to providing funding for activities:

(a) in relation to postal, telegraphic, telephonic, and other like services (within the meaning of paragraph 51(v) of the Constitution); or

(b) with respect to the people of any race for whom it is deemed necessary to make special laws; or

(c) in relation to aliens or immigrants; or

(d) to meet Australia's obligations under:

(i) the International Covenant on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights (particularly Article 6(2)); and

(ii) the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (particularly Article 7); and

(iii) the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (particularly Articles 2, 3, 5(a) and 16); and

(iv) the Convention on the Rights of the Child (particularly Articles 4, 18 and 19).

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Domestic Violence Frontline Services

To provide funding:

(a) for alternative accommodation for women escaping domestic violence, with a particular focus on mothers with teenage sons; and

(b) for workers in the financial counselling and financial capability sector to equip them to better recognise, and respond to the needs of, women who have experienced domestic violence; and

(c) to develop and deliver service delivery models to meet the needs of women with disabilities, and women who are non-citizens or migrants, for integrated, wrap-around services relating to domestic violence; and

(d) to develop and deliver training to disability sector workers in identifying, and supporting, the needs of women with disabilities who experience violence.

This objective also has the effect it would have if it were limited to providing funding for activities:

(a) in relation to aliens or immigrants; or

(b) to meet Australia's obligations under:

(i) the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (particularly Articles 2, 3, 5(a) and 16); and

(ii) the Convention on the Rights of the Child (particularly Articles 4 and 19); and

(iii) the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (particularly Article 6(2)); and

(iv) the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (particularly Article 7).

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Revenge pornography complaints mechanism and countering the impact of pornography on young people

To establish a complaints mechanism for revenge pornography and to counter the influence of pornography, particularly on young people, insofar as it contributes to domestic and sexual violence by:

(a) establishing an online mechanism for persons to report instances of their intimate images being disseminated without their consent; and

(b) providing support to such persons; and

(c) developing and implementing strategies to change the attitudes and behaviours of young people with respect to the dissemination of intimate images.

This objective also has the effect it would have if it were limited to providing funding for activities:

(a) in relation to postal, telegraphic, telephonic, and other like services (within the meaning of paragraph 51(v) of the Constitution); or

(b) to meet Australia's obligations under:

(i) the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (particularly Articles 2, 5(a) and 16); and

(ii) the Convention on the Rights of the Child (particularly Articles 4 and 19).