There has been unprecedented attention at the national and state level over the last decade on improving and reforming responses to domestic, family and sexual violence across Australia. Significant national...
Outgoing Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins: “We are on the precipice of change” Kate Jenkins became the nation's Sex Discrimination Commissioner in 2016. Her purpose is to advance gender equality...
ACLW welcomes the Workplace Gender Equality Amendment (Closing the Gender Pay Gap) Bill 2023 being passed by Federal Parliament today. Thanks to the Albanese government and especially to Senator Katy...
Melanie Hawkes started writing in 2019 and enjoys flash fiction and poetry. She also makes art with bottle tops and other found items, and enjoys pyrography (wood burning). She joined...
This year to mark International Women's Day, I invited a group of women to reflect on what International Women's Day means to them personally. I am proud to present the...
The Australian Government announced in the Women’s Budget Statement 2021-22 a targeted review of the Workplace Gender Equality Act 2012. On Wednesday 20 October 2021, the Minister for Women published...
Tharunicaa and Kopika inside the Christmas Island Detention Centre Dr Diann Rodgers-Healey Recently, former High Court chief justice, Sir Gerard Brennan condemned the Christmas Island detention and treatment of the...
Submission by Dr Diann Rodgers-Healey as featured at The National Indigenous Australians Agency https://haveyoursay.voice.niaa.gov.au/submissions/view/sbm179d379e08759ec06a4ef Individuals, communities and organisations were invited to provide feedback on how they think the proposals could...
Dr Diann Rodgers-Healey "The standard you walk past is the standard you accept” said former Australian Army Chief, Lieutenant General David Morrison in 2013 in his address at the United...
To mark International Women’s Day 2021, leading women in Australia were invited to respond to the question: Given the issues women continue to face in Australia, what would you like...
In a year marked by the unprecedented global Covid-19 pandemic, the stark reality of its impact on women globally in 2020 could not be clearer. With an awareness that a...
Louise Milligan is an investigative reporter for ABC TV's Four Corners and the bestselling author of Cardinal, which won the Walkley Book Award and broke massive international news about the court case and...
In the lead up to Budget 2020-21, there were many constructive calls for a gender responsive budget with Covid19 worsening gender inequality. Over 100 organisations committed to gender equity and...
Sue Salthouse. Photo source: Women with Disabilities ACT We at ACLW mourn and grieve the tragic loss of Sue Salthouse, Sue was an Ambassador of ACLW from 2016 onwards. Sue...
A global* study by Emerald Publishing highlights the barriers preventing inclusivity in society, the role of research in helping to solve these issues, and systemic issues within the academic research sector....
Over 80 organisations committed to gender equity and women across Victoria have made a joint statement calling for State and Federal Governments to recognise the gendered impacts of COVID-19. The...
ABC Radio National Interview with Diann Rodgers-Healey by Richard Aedy on the Unique Leadership of Minority Women research. 16 September 2017. http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bestpractice/diann-rodgers_unique-leadership-of-minority-women/8946694Sydney Morning Herald, When Age and Life Experience become a...
ACLW’s Honours Roll honours all the winners of ACLW’s Awards since 2006 whose achievements demonstrate their valuing of women in the Organisations and/or in the community. Table of ContentsWinners and...
The Australian Centre for Leadership for Women between 2000 and 2019 invited prominent national and international female and male leaders in different sectors to focus on how they became leaders,...
Panel of Judges for ACLW's Awards 2006 - 2009 Leadership Achievement Award (LAA) 2009 Leadership Achievement Award’s Panel of Judges Dr Jocelynne Scutt, Barrister & Human Rights Lawyer, First Anti-Discrimination Commissioner, Executive ProducerChristine...