The Relationships Australia federation collaborates with providers of legal assistance services within the scope of the review to deliver integrated, expert professional services to people of all ages who are experiencing legal problems alongside relationship, adverse mental health and psycho-social challenges, and the effects of structural and systemic barriers to full participation in the commun. [...] Relationships Australia recognises the indivisibility and universality of human rights and the inherent and equal freedom and dignity of all. [...] Principle 2 – An expanded understanding of the nature, experiences and implications of poverty Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have different ways of knowing the dimensions of poverty; indeed, the drivers of poverty and the mechanisms and conditions for escaping from poverty are different from those applying to other groups in the community. [...] The connection to Country, and the context-specific experiences of kinship, for example, do not countenance the hyper-individualism that pervades Western assumptions about distribution of resources and obligations between the Western nation-state and individual taxpayers and among individual taxpayers. [...] There is a risk that, without proper funding of these functions, the amendments will exacerbate the dissatisfaction and distress of children and their parents without achieving the aim of better recognising children as rights-bearers (especially pursuant to Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child).
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