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Oct 7, 2026
John CampbellHOST
In 2024, ministers in a bid to reduce the use of motels to house families introduced new categories under which people could get emergency housing assistance.
John CampbellHOST
Women's Refuge says that's resulted in extra barriers for people fleeing IPV.
John CampbellHOST
An example, not being able to access key documents while escaping unsafe conditions or not being able to return to get those documents.
John CampbellHOST
Sophie Beaumont is a researcher and development advisor for Women's Refuge and was one of the lead authors on this paper.
John CampbellHOST
Atamarie, Sophie, nice to have you with us.
Sophie BeaumontGUEST
Hi, thanks for having me.
7 MINS LATER
Sophie BeaumontGUEST
And so if that is done and then the knowledge of family violence isn't there, it's like, no, no, no, this was a very necessary action.
Sophie BeaumontGUEST
safety action, then are they potentially going to fall into that criteria for causing or contributing, even though the victim hasn't done anything?
Nicola WrightHOST
And you can hear from Mr. Tamihere shortly on Morning Report.
Nicola WrightHOST
Women's Refuge says emergency housing rules need to change to make provisions for people fleeing a violent partner.
Nicola WrightHOST
A 2024 policy change introduced stricter eligibility criteria to secure housing.
Nicola WrightHOST
A new report draws on the experiences of 338 survey respondents, many of them had fled from a violent partner.
Nicola WrightHOST
Dr. Sophie Beaumont from Women's Refuge says women who leave can forfeit access to money, important documents, and support networks.
Nicola WrightHOST
She wants to see simpler pathways for victims to get emergency housing.
Nicola WrightHOST
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Christina ParaskosHOST
Matthew Shelton said he did not want the vaccine to cause harm and was not practicing medicine when he made the statements.
Christina ParaskosHOST
Women's Refuge New Zealand says stricter housing-- stricter emergency housing requirements are putting victims of domestic violence at risk.
Christina ParaskosHOST
The 2024 policy changes introduce stricter eligibility criteria and ongoing requirements to prove their need and demonstrate attempts to secure other housing.
Christina ParaskosHOST
Dr. Sophie Beaumont, a research and development advisor at Women's Refuge and one of the paper's authors, says abuse can directly impact someone's ability to get housing.
Sophie BeaumontSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Abuse can leave victims without access to money, without access to their bank accounts, to their identification, important documents, you know, transport, support networks.
Sophie BeaumontSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
All of these things are kind of implicated.
Christina ParaskosHOST
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Christina ParaskosHOST
Women's Refuge New Zealand says stricter emergency housing rules are putting victims of domestic violence at risk.
Christina ParaskosHOST
The 2024 policy change introduced stricter eligibility criteria and ongoing requirements to prove their need and demonstrate attempts to secure other housing.
Christina ParaskosHOST
Dr. Sophie Beaumont, a research and development advisor at Women's Refuge and one of the paper's authors, says abuse can directly affect someone's ability to get housing.
Christina ParaskosHOST
It can leave victims without access to money, bank accounts, important documents, transport, and support networks, all of which are required to apply for emergency housing.
Christina ParaskosHOST
The Ministry of Social Development says if someone leaves their home because of family violence, they are not considered to have contributed to their need for emergency housing and would not be refused on that basis.
Amanda TattersallGUEST
I mean, in some ways, it's always been like that.
Amanda TattersallGUEST
Like the domestic violence, rape crisis centres, women's crisis centres that began, I live in Glebe and Elsie Women's Refuge was started here, not because the government went, oh, we think that's a really good idea, but because women occupied, right? Like women took over the space and made it happen.
Amanda TattersallGUEST
And I think...
Amanda TattersallGUEST
If only that didn't have to be the case, right? But I fear that it's an indication of power.
Amanda TattersallGUEST
And I think that that is also baked into the history of this space, right? So I've done research on what's called people power strategies.
Amanda TattersallGUEST
And one of them, this is going to sound a little bit abstract, so it's called prefigurative strategies, right? So what does prefigurative mean? That's a very...
Amanda TattersallGUEST
a strange term, to prefigure is to model the change you seek by doing it, right? So Elsie's Women's Refuge was a perfect example of this, where they, what a women's refuge, government's not going to give us one, we're just going to damn well do it, and we created ourselves.
Amanda TattersallGUEST
And the perfect thing about prefigurative work is that by the very act of doing it, you prove it's possible.
Alan CorcoranHOST
We'll get an update from Vicki and from Jane in a little while on the show.
Alan CorcoranHOST
But first off, I took a trip up, uh, to Wexford Women's Refuge yesterday, where they've just released their latest figures on domestic violence and the demand for their services.
Alan CorcoranHOST
The numbers are shocking, particularly in this day and age, and they highlight the scale of the problem facing women and children in our community.
Alan CorcoranHOST
This is what I found.
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JennySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Mm-hmm.
JennySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Not necessarily.
JennySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I think there's a big misconception about the refuge, because it's Wexford Women's Refuge, that that's the only service we offer.
JennySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But it's actually nearly the smallest part of services that we offer, because refuge should be the last point of call for a woman.
Brittany GoodwinGUEST
This is the result of an act of violence.
Brittany GoodwinGUEST
So we have partnered with a number of other organisations, so Women's Refuge, for example, Shine, who are another family violence organisation, FinCap, Community Laws, Aotearoa, and about 80 other organisations have endorsed this to say, look, we need to change this.
Brittany GoodwinGUEST
We need to shift these processes.
Brittany GoodwinGUEST
And we have nine recommendations on our website.
Brittany GoodwinGUEST
There are strong advocates for their clients, and they will absolutely go out to bat for you.
Brittany GoodwinGUEST
So there's that support service that's available often.
Brittany GoodwinGUEST
There are also incredible support services available through Women's Refuge, particularly if you have experienced a range of different family violence acts.
Brittany GoodwinGUEST
Your safety is always paramount.