Respectful Relationships News
Everyone in our community deserves to be respected, valued and treated equally. We know that changes in attitudes and behaviours can be achieved when positive attitudes, behaviours and equality are embedded in our education settings.
Respectful Relationships is about embedding a culture of respect and equality across our entire community, from our classrooms to staffrooms, sporting fields, fetes and social events. This approach leads to positive impacts on students' academic outcomes, their mental health, classroom behaviour, and relationships between teachers and students.
Together, we can lead the way in saying yes to respect and equality, and creating genuine and lasting change so that every child has the opportunity to achieve their full potential.
The EDSC Respectful Relationships Pledge:
"All members of our school community have a responsibility to stand up against family violence and the misuse of gender power and control. We foster relationships that are respectful, caring and fair."
If you or anyone you know is experiencing domestic violence the following services are available
If you or someone you know is in immediate danger call 000 and ask for the police.
For non-urgent help, please contact:
- 1800RESPECT: The national sexual assault, domestic and family violence counselling service. Phone and online services available 24/7.
- Doncare: (03) 9856 1500
- Eastern Domestic Violence Service (EDVOS): (03) 9259 4200
- Safe Steps Family Violence Response Centre: 1800 015 188
- Thorne Harbour Health support for the LGBTIQA+ community: (03) 9865 6700
- Migrant Information Centre support for people from diverse cultural backgrounds: (03) 9285 4888
- inTouch Multicultural Centre Against Family Violence at (03) 9413 6500
- Men's Referral Service: 1300 766 491
- Eastern Community Legal Centre: 1300 325 200
More resources/agencies can be found on our Wellbeing, Engagement and Positive Futures page of the East Doncaster Secondary College website
https://www.eastdonsc.vic.edu.au/wellbeing-engagement-positive-futures
Diversity and RRRR Calendar dates
Term 2
June- Pride Month
20th June- World Refugee Day
LGBTQIA+ Resources/Events
Minus18
DID SOMEBODY SAY POPCORN...??
Minus18 and The Victorian Pride Centre are joining forces to bring YOU a movie night full of PRIDE and Queer Youth pals!
We cannot WAIT to celebrate Pride Month with you at the most wonderfully comfy, bean bag filled, queer movie night ever, with popcorn provided by our friends from City of Port Phillip 🍿🍿
Join us on Saturday 3 June! Limited spots available so make sure you register!
Key Info
- Saturday 3 June, 2023
- 7:00pm - 9:30pm
- Victorian Pride Centre Theatrette, 79-81 Fitzroy St, St Kilda VIC 3182
- Ages 12 - 19 only
- Tickets are FREE - Registrations essential!
- A sweet, sweet popcorn machine provided by City of Port Phillip!
But what movie?
- None other than queer fav Love, Simon <3
What you need to know about tickets
- All tickets are gloriously FREE
- One ticket booking per person – make sure your pals don't miss out!
- This WILL sell out, so move quickly!
- When tickets sell out, a waitlist will be activated. Add your name to the waitlist, and when someone un-registers a ticket, it'll go to the next person on the waitlist. You'll have 48 hours to claim your spot before it goes to the next person!
- If you find out you’re unable to attend, please un-register your spot via Eventbrite so someone else can attend.
- No allocated seating
F.Y.P.P! It's a FOR YOU PRIDE PARTY!
It's June, it's Pride Month, and you better believe that means we're hosting a digital Pride Party for YOU – our LGBTQIA+ youth community.
Decorate your room and come dressed in your favourite pride gear – whether that's a rainbow, an identity flag, or anything else that shows your LGBTQIA+ pride in all its glory!
Expect a digital dance party filled with incredible talent, charisma and uniqueness of LGBTQIA+ performers, the chance to make new friends...
...and for the VERY FIRST TIME, we'll be hosting a TIK TOK DANCE CHALLENGE with amazing prizes to be won!
So prepare yourself for a dance party right from your lounge room or bedroom with new friends from all over the country. You could even invite some of your friends to your house and tune in to the party together for maximum vibes!
Key info:
THIS EVENT IS FOR LGBTQIA+ YOUTH AND THEIR FRIENDS!
- DATE: Saturday 10 June
- TIME:
VIC, QLD, NSW, TAS, ACT: 7pm - 9pm AEST
SA, NT: 6:30pm - 8:30pm ACST
WA: 4pm - 6pm AWST
- LOCATION: Zoom (we'll email you the link on the day!)
- COST: FREE!
- AGE: 12 to 19 ONLY
WATCH PARTY VIBES
Want to host a watch party with your mates?!? Or have a Queer Youth Group and want to get into the crew together for a lounge room dance party?
Check out our WATCH PARTY GUIDE HERE
LINE UP!
PERFORMERS
- Robert Baxter - Live music
- Manish Interest - Drag
- Candy Featherbottom - Drag
- Rosie Roulette - Live Music
COMPETITIONS
We have SO MANY PRIZES to give away, here's how you can snag one!
- JUST BY ATTENDING you go in the running to win one of 2 x $150 Dangerfield Vouchers!
- 🌈 PRIDE costume competition! Dress with PRIDE 🌈
- Strut your Stuff TIK TOK DANCE CHALLENGE!
- Kahoot!
ACCESSIBILITY
Auslan Interpreters on screen
Captions available
Youth Workers present
Social Script > CHECK IT OUT HERE
COMPLTELY FREE TO ATTEND!
Journalling with Minus18
Sometimes we love a glittery, loud dance party. But other times? We love a cosy, lo-fi, chance to get creative and make new friends. Creative, calming and cathartic, journaling is an awesome activity and skill to grow!
No matter your location, join Minus18 and your LGBTQIA+ youth community for a digital event full of cosy, lo-fi pride. Whether you want to zine or journal, you'll be able to express yourself however suits you best!
Key Info:
THIS EVENT IS FOR LGBTQIA+ YOUTH AND THEIR FRIENDS!
- DATE: Friday 23 June
- TIME: 5:00 to 6:00 PM
- LOCATION: Zoom (we'll send you the invite on the day!)
- COST: FREE!
- AGE: 12 to 19 ONLY
Free tickets will be released 4 weeks before the event. We’ll provide more information on what’s planned and who’s involved closer to the event!
For more events please visit
https://www.minus18.org.au/events
Manningham Council Events
Good Vibrations All Abilities Disco – Footy
https://www.manningham.vic.gov.au/events/good-vibrations-all-abilities-disco-footy
Saturday 17th June 2023
Time: 7 – 10pm
Scout Hall, 5 High Street, Doncaster
Join DJ Flash Gordon for the third Good Vibrations All Abilities Disco. This time the theme is footy! So dress up in your clubs’ regalia and come and boogie the night away.
Entry to the event is free.
Water, orange and apple wedges supplied. Drinks and chips will be available to buy. This event is presented by the Rotary Club of Doncaster and supported by the Bendigo Bank (Doncaster East and Templestowe).
Time to Recognise a Local Star in Our Community
Do you know someone in our community working to make Manningham a better place?
Whether it’s the parent who comes to help out at the footy on the weekends or a local committee member, we want to hear the stories of those working to improve our local community.
You can nominate in five categories:
- Citizen of the Year
- Young Citizen of the Year
- Doreen Stoves Volunteer of the Year
- Sports Volunteer of the Year
- Community Organisation of the Year
Nominations for the 2023 Manningham Civic Awards are open until Monday 10 July.
Talking about Consent
Documentary “Asking For It’ – SBS On Demand
Every day in Australia around 85 sexual assaults are reported on average [1] – which is likely to be a fraction of the total number that occur – with an estimated 90 percent of sexual assaults going unreported [2].
SBS’s ground-breaking new documentary series Asking For It explores the sexual revolution we’re all living through: one that’s taking us from the ‘sexual liberation’ of the 1960s and ’70s to the era of ‘enthusiastic consent’.
Journalist Jess Hill (See What You Made Me Do) returns to SBS with Asking For It, reigniting a national conversation about the epidemic of sexual violence impacting millions of Australians. From schools to universities, aged care, same-sex relationships, in institutions and at the highest level of government – this series asks: how can we change our rape culture into a consent culture?
https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-series/asking-for-it
https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-series/see-what-you-made-me-do
1] Based on ABS statistics from July 2022, there were 31,118 sexual assaults reported in 2021 – on average there were almost 600 (31,118 divided by 52 weeks = 596 per week) sexual assaults reported every week or on average there were 85 sexual assaults reported every day (31,118 divided by 365 days = approx. 85 per day). Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics. "Sexual assaults increase for tenth year in a row." ABS, 28 July 2022, accessed Jan 2023.
[2] In almost 9 in 10 incidents (87%, or 554,000), women who experienced their most recent aggravated sexual assault by a male in the last 10 years did not contact the police. Source: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2020. Sexual assault in Australia. Cat. no. FDV 5. Canberra: AIHW, accessed Jan 2023
RR Book of the Week
Work. Love. Body.
Future Women
By: Jamila Rizvi, Helen McCabe
The future lives of women have changed drastically. As a growing number of women agitate for change, it is time to demand what women want. Through the lenses of work, love, and body, this powerful and essential essay collection asks: Will the Australia of tomorrow be more equal than the one we were born into? Or will it be a country where women and girls remain left behind? One thing is very clear: The future is now and it is female.
While our country was shrouded in smoke in the early months of 2020, Australian women went about their daily business. They went to work. Picked kids up from school or checked in on sick neighbours. Made dinner. Ticked off their to-do list and postponed looking after themselves because life and commitments got in the way.
Then, in March, everything changed. Australians were told to lock down. Women held the health of our communities in their hands as they took on the essential jobs to care, to nurse and to teach despite an invisible danger. For all the talk of equality, it was primarily women who juggled the intense demands of work, kids, schooling and care of ageing parents. We were told to stay home and to keep each other safe. But one year later, women across the country would march on behalf of those who were not safe in their own homes.
Never before has change been thrust so abruptly on modern Australian women. 2020 impacted our working lives, relationships, and our health and wellbeing. So where do we go from here? Future Women have the answers.
About the Authors
Jamila Rizvi is Chief Creative Officer for Nine's Future Women and a bestselling author for adults and children. She is an opinion columnist for the Nine newspapers and hosts two podcasts, The Weekend Briefing and Anonymous Was A Woman. Jamila has advised governments at the highest levels on gender equality, child care, media and employment. She was named in the Australian Financial Review's 100 Women of Influence and is a 2020 Women and Leadership Australia award winner.
Helen McCabe is founder and managing director of Future Women. She began working in radio and television in Adelaide before moving to the Canberra Press Gallery with the Seven Network. In 2004 Helen was appointed Night Editor of The Australian newspaper, and later Deputy Editor of The Sunday Telegraph, and also spent six years as editor in chief of the Australia Women's Weekly, winning a number of industry awards including editor of the year. She is one of the few women to deliver the Andrew Olle lecture on journalism. Helen is active in the not-profit sector holding a series of board roles and also held senior executive roles at Nine before launching Future Women in 2018.
Rebecca James
Respectful Relationships Coordinator