Australian Centre for Leadership for Women
It has been estimated that there are over 240 million children with disabilities worldwide. Within the Commonwealth 60% of the population are young people aged under 29 years, taking this into account with figures from WHO estimating that worldwide 1 in 6 people experience significant disability. During the Global Disability Summit 2025, Children & Young […]
On March 4, for the second time, WGEA (the Workplace Gender Equality Agency) will publish the gender pay gaps of over 9,000 private sector employers. Many companies are making progress. But progress is too slow for the many women and men disadvantaged by it. Only 56% of employers improved their organisation’s gender pay gap
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ACLW supported the amended LGBTIQ+ Equality Bill passed through the upper house of NSW Parliament to being law! The Bill passed 15 votes to 12 in the upper house, making it the largest package of LGBTIQ+ law reform in the state’s history. Among its many reforms, the Bill removes outdated barriers requiring trans people to
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Dr Rodgers-Healey This International Women’s Day, 8 March 2024, to honour the courage and remember the suffering of the thousands of women & children killed and terrorised in the Israeli-Hamas War, the war in Ukraine and Sudan, I will be pinning a piece of white cloth with a safety pin on the left side of the
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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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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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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
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 Government to raise Newstart. Aligning Government policy with public concerns is one of the core aims of democratic governance and key to this is the
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