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This Re-cap of the Asia-Pacific Beijing+25 Regional Review Meeting is by Romy Listo from Equality Rights Alliance. Romy Listo Romy Listo is the Project Coordinator at Equality Rights Alliance. She has an...
Election Day is your chance to vote for a party that will act to fix the broken housing system. The National Everybody’s Home campaign has urged all candidates not to...
Women’s votes count in the 2019 Federal Election. The Women's Electoral Lobby has outlined what the Coalition, Labor and Greens are promising for women in relation to 12 key priorities....
For International Women's Day 2019, ACLW decided to focus on what does feminism looks like today and what strategies are being developed to advance women under this banner. As such,...
Associate Professor Clare Wright Clare Wright In her new book, You Daughters of Freedom, historian Associate Professor Clare Wright brings to life a time when Australian democracy was the standard...
Will the Liberal Party ever be led by a Woman? Dr Diann Rodgers-Healey It is hard to not believe that gender was a dominant factor in Julie Bishop losing the...
Shifts in Ideologies Matter, Beyond a Political Party’s Identity Dr Diann Rodgers-Healey Former Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull The sudden painful political annihilation of Malcolm Turnbull, former Prime Minister and Leader...
More voices are needed to bring about increasing the Newstart Rate. Please consider some of the reasons and add your voice to the Australian Council of Social Service's Call to the...
https://womensagenda.com.au/latest/eradicate-sexual-harassment-in-workplaces/ Dr Diann Rodgers-Healey Recent workplace sexual harassment revelations by many women sharing their stories abroad and in Australia have woken hearts and minds to the pain, indignity, injustice and wide-reaching impacts of...
Dr Diann Rodgers-Healey, Director, The Australian Centre for Leadership for Women (ACLW) In her concession speech on Wednesday, Hillary Clinton said, “I know we have still not shattered that highest and...
The Federal Government has tabled amendments to the paid parental leave scheme which will effectively limit the Paid parental Leave (PPL) scheme to 18 weeks for thousands of Australian women. Currently...
ACLW adopts the Australian Women’s Health Charter launched by the Australian Women’s Health Network (AWHN). The Australian Women’s Health Charter seeks to influence all political parties in the lead up the...
ACLW is supporting the #VoteHome campaign led by an alliance of Homelessness Australia, National Shelter with the aim of getting major parties to commit to a national strategy to end...
The five National Women’s Alliances have come together to encourage women to use their votes in the 2016 Federal election. It’s important that women’s voices are heard in this election.We...
Our Family Law system is in crisis. Every day women are left traumatised and children are left in the hands of abusive parents as the family law system struggles to...
By Diann Rodgers-Healey Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull with his new female cabinet ministers. Picture: AFP As Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s new Cabinet begins, there is much excitement in the air...
By Diann Rodgers-Healey As worldwide displacement hits an all time high due to wars, conflict and persecution, the Australian government recently highlighted its record of stopping the boats and being...
Mandatory detention of women and children on Nauru and Manus Island has become a long-term, indeterminate, unreviewable and unjust course of action as the Australian Human Rights Commission found in...
10 Organisations Encouraging Female Professionals In AustraliaPublished in Business Review AustraliaAuthor: Laura Close on 07 Aug 2015 http://www.businessreviewaustralia.com/leadership/1566/10-Organisations-Encouraging-Female-Professionals-In-Australia 10. Australian Centre for Leadership for Women The Australian Centre for Leadership for Women (ACLW),...
https://www.womensagenda.com.au/talking-about/opinions/understanding-the-power-of-a-woman Recently the association of ‘Women’ and ‘Power’ has emerged in Former Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s advice to Hillary Clinton and other women in power where she pointed out that...