The Australian Women’s Health Network (AWHN) is calling on all political parties to support the vital work it does to improve health outcomes for women, including urging parties to support the first Australian Women’s Health Charter, launched by the organisation at the end of last month. AWHN lost government funding at the end of last [...]

This week, the National Women’s Alliances launched womenvote.org.au, an online platform where women can access information on how to cast an effective, informed and independent vote. As we head to the polls on 2 July, we want to ensure that women’s voices are being heard, and that our issues are taken seriously. If you have [...]

It’s official! Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has called a double dissolution election and Australia is heading for the polls on 2 July 2016! Throughout the election campaign, we will be discussing what this election means for women. Women’s Agenda has already started the conversation, with a recent article on what we know about Labor and [...]

The Australian Government released its budget for 2016-17 yesterday! We attended budget lock up with other women’s organisations and watched it all unfold. So is the government committed to improving the lives of women? We believe this budget evades the hard challenges, and its response to violence against women is not proportionate to the scale [...]

After a short break due to staff leave, our round-up is back! Last week, the NSW government introduced its domestic violence disclosure scheme, allowing people at risk of violence to find out whether their partner has a history of violent crime offences. In addition, third parties such as friends, family members and social workers can also [...]

We have great news from Victoria this week! The Victorian government has agreed to implement every single recommendation made in the report of the Royal Commission into Family Violence, which was released last Wednesday. The report, consisting of eight volumes, details 227 recommendations aimed at making systemic changes to family violence response and prevention mechanisms. [...]

The 60th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women came to an end last Friday, with the adoption of the agreed conclusions. The conclusions were reached after long and extensive negotiations, resulting in some significant steps forward, as well as some less promising developments. Some achievements include the stand-alone paragraph on [...]

The sixtieth session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW60) continues this week! Julie Oberin, Margaret Augerinos, Bonney Corbin and Maria Delaney, AWAVA’s delegates at CSW60, have been updating us all week. Follow us (@AWAVA_women) on twitter to keep up to date with the meeting. For more on CSW60, follow this link [...]

Welcome to this week’s round up. The United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is being held in New York from 14 to 24 March. AWAVA Chair Julie Oberin and Advisory Group members Bonney Corbin, Margaret Augerinos and Maria Delaney Group are joining civil society and government representatives from around the world to [...]

Happy International Women’s Day to all our friends and supporters! To mark International Women’s Day, we would like to share Celeste Liddle’s insightful piece on the need to ensure that all women’s stories are heard, and that the unique struggles of Aboriginal women are brought to centre stage. As Liddle puts it - ‘A “herstory” [...]