Diann Rodgers-Healey

On Aug. 15, 2021, two weeks before the U.S. military was to complete its withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Taliban entered Kabul and captured the capital as the culmination of a weeklong offensive in which the hardline Islamist movement rapidly seized control over most of the country, sometimes with barely a fight. A few days later, […]

Axe childcare activity test & extend single parent payment, introduce super on paid parental leave, Women’s Economic Equality Taskforce led by Sam Mostyn to recommend. The task force was set up in September 2022 to provide advice to the federal government on improving gender equality. Policy change will remove structural barriers for women & advance

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 evidence comprising the views and experiences of 1261 Australian victim-survivors of Domestic and Family Violence points to the need to criminalise coercive and controlling behaviours

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 and the rights of LGBTIQ+ communities, consistent with the Sex Discrimination Act and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.

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 Gallagher, Minister for Women for this significant reform. Employers can no longer keep gender pay gaps confidential. From early 2024 gender pay gaps of employers

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 the Society of Women Writers Western Australia in 2020 and has been published in their yearly anthologies since. She hopes to write her memoir one

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 a media release to announce the start of public consultation on the WGEA Review consultation. The WGEA Review Team, based in the Department of the

Dr Diann Rodgers-Healey Recently, former High Court chief justice,  Sir Gerard Brennan condemned the Christmas Island detention and treatment of the children of a Tamil family, 3 year old Tharunicaa and 5 year old Kopika, as “deliberate cruelty.” Tharunicaa was medically evacuated to a Perth hospital on 6 June 2021 for treatment and was diagnosed

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 successive and ultimately successful appeals involving one of the most senior members of the Catholic Church hierarchy. Among many awards for her work, she’s also

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 women across Victoria made a joint statement calling for State and Federal Governments to recognise the gendered impacts of COVID-19.  In his 2020-21 Budget speech

We at ACLW mourn and grieve the tragic loss of Sue Salthouse, Sue was an Ambassador of ACLW from 2016 onwards. Sue was a strong leader, feminist, champion & change agent in the disability movement. She was a remarkable Ambassador of ACLW, advocating for marginalised women. Sue was relentlessly passionate, committed and incredibly innovative in