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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,...

As governments prepare to finalise the National Plan on Violence Against Women and their Children that will set our country’s direction and framework for the next 12 years, ACLW joins...

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...

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ACLW has joined with more than 60 organisations to back a joint statement demanding governments not only act to improve the safety of everyone in our parliaments, but also in...

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...

For the first time violence and harassment in the world of work are covered in new international labour standards, adopted at the Centenary International Labour Conference and now open for...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Australian Centre for Leadership for Women is a signatory to the statement below which was sent to the Prime Minister, Leader of the Opposition, Leader of the Greens and...

This petition which ran from 8 October 2014 to 12 October 2014 in Change.org has now been closed. A copy of the petition with 258 signatories and comments have been emailed...

ACLW is an official Supporter of WGEA's Equal Pay is in Your Hands Campaign launched on 30 September 2014. Gender bias impacts performance rating and pay decisions creating instances of...

The Victorian Women's Trust has launched a Monster Climate Petition to the House of Representatives demanding immediate and effective action to significantly reduce carbon emissions.  The petition draws its attention to...

Amendments to the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 Submission to the Australian Government Current federal protections from racial hatred make it unequivocally clear that it is unlawful for a person to...

Dear Hon Julia Gillard MP The Australian Centre for Leadership for Women (ACLW) is extremely proud of your achievements as Australia’s first female Prime Minister. Your Prime Ministership has provided...

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