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.
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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
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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
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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 Reflections of these women. I have also included mine at the end. Happy International Women’s Day to everyone! Professor Shirley Randell International Women’s Day I
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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
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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
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 work for them. Public input was sought to help the Indigenous Voice co-design groups to further develop and refine the proposals so that final recommendations
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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 Nations International Women’s Day Conference. Recent and ongoing shocking revelations of the misogynist sexist treatment and sexual abuse of women in Parliament House including Brittany
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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 to draw attention to on International Women’s Day 2021, and what is one way to address this? I would like to thank the women who
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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 lack of progress in gender equality has exacerbated the Covid-19 pandemic’s gender impact, will countries strive to achieve global gender equality in a post Covid-19
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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
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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
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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
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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. The Global Inclusivity Report 2020 includes a brief review commentary by ACLW’s Director Dr Diann Rodger-Healey. The survey, undertaken just prior to the pandemic’s spread
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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 Statement says: “The Coronavirus pandemic is exceptionally difficult for everyone and is having a huge impact on all our lives. So far, a gender analysis