Vine Quick Reads: 26 June 2025

Vine Quick Reads: 26 June 2025

Welcome to our Quick Reads format. Each week we share selected news bites relevant to family violence and sexual violence in Aotearoa.

New report: Whakapakari Kaimahi Māori: mō te oranga me te hiranga

He Whare Wāhine - Te Rau Ora have released the Whakapakari Kaimahi Māori: mō te oranga me te hiranga (2025), prepared for Te Pukōtahitanga as part of the Workforce Development Project for kaimahi Māori in the family violence and sexual violence workforce. The report informs a workforce plan and strategy that ensures the sector is equipped to support whānau and communities effectively and sustainably. Key themes include:

  • Workforce resilience and development
  • System improvements
  • The role of hapū and iwi
  • Indigenous models of care and practice
  • The strategic necessity of kaupapa and mātauranga Māori.

Government reinstates Three Strikes sentencing

The Government has reinstated the Three Strikes sentencing regime as of 17 June 2025. The legislation is intended to deter repeat offenders with the threat of progressively longer mandatory terms of imprisonment. The modified regime now includes a strangulation and suffocation offence. Some warnings that were previously given under the former three strikes law from 1 June 2010 to 16 August 2022 can be reactivated. Waipapa Taumata Rau | University of Auckland Associate Professor Carrie Leonetti wrote an opinion piece on the repeal of Three Strikes in 2022. For more information see RNZ.

Toi Hau Tāngata | Social Investment Agency (SIA) webinar recordings now available

SIA hosted two webinars in June giving an overview of the newly announced Social Investment Fund. Recordings of the webinars can be found on the SIA website. Q&A sessions were hosted with each webinar and frequently asked questions will be published shortly. More information about the Social Investment Fund can also be found here.

New research on LGBTIQ+ housing instability

New research, Flatting amongst LGBTIQ+ people in Aotearoa New Zealand (2025), has been released by Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka | University of Otago (UoO). For more on this research, read the Spinoff's interview with Brodie Fraser, one of article's authors, New research finds over half of LGBTQI+ flatters experience housing discrimination. Fraser’s co-author Mary Buchanan recently published a related article along with other UoO academics: The importance of housing assistance on reducing youth offending in New Zealand (2025). For more on this, see UoO's press release and RNZ's coverage.

New report from Good Shepherd on women experiencing financial harm

Good Shepherd has released a new report: Issues facing women experiencing harm and hardship (2025). This discusses three strategic focus areas — dignified income, financial wellbeing, and family violence economic harm — and the ways these factors can collectively disadvantage women in Aotearoa.

Welcome to our Quick Reads format. Each week we share selected news bites relevant to family violence and sexual violence in Aotearoa.
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