This is our new website – a place where you can find information on the Equality Rights Alliance and our projects, members and events, the latest news on gender equality advocacy in Australia, and actions you can take to make your voice heard. The website will continue to be under construction over the December/January period. […]
Lifeline Australia’s DV-Alert is a nationally recognised training program funded by the Department of Social Services as a key initiative under the National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and Their Children. Since 2011, the 2-day DV-Alert training course has been offered, free of charge, to the health, allied health and community frontline workers. The training […]
Justice Connect Homeless Law has recently released the report Keeping Women and Children Housed: Two Years, Ten Client Stories and Ten Calls for Change. The report is based on the work of Justice Connect’s Women’s Homelessness Prevention Project (WHPP), which has supported 102 women with 157 children who were either experiencing homelessness or on the brink of it. Informed […]
The Australian Government’s eighth periodic report on the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) is now available. You can find it here. In light of the Government’s CEDAW Report being available, the CEDAW Shadow Reports, prepared by YWCA Australia, are now publicly available here.
The National Foundation for Australian Women has released the following statement on the Centrelink Non Compliance Process: The National Foundation for Australian Women is profoundly concerned by the Ministerially approved processes for so-called debt-recovery from Centrelink clients, and calls on the Government to cease using the process pending receipt of a report from the Commonwealth […]
Check out our feminist playlist for the summer… Got any suggestions? Send us an email via the Contact Us page! You Don’t Own Me – Leslie Gore / Grace Independent Woman, Part 1 – Destiny’s Child I’m Just a Girl – No Doubt Fight Song – Rachel Platten Don’t Rain on My Parade – […]
ERA’s Young Women’s Advisory Group (YWAG) is after another member to join and be part of their work amplifying young women’s voices in the national policy space. YWAG is an opportunity to meet and work with young women from across Australia too advocate on issues that are important to young women. If you are between the […]
This study explores inheritance in farming families (‘farming’ includes all types of primary production in this context). Previous research on this topic has tended to focus on farm succession issues, and has involved farming parents and their successors, who are normally sons. This study aims to increase understanding of farming family inheritance by taking a more […]
One more week to register for the Women’s Policy Forum in Melbourne on 16 August! Women and men experience the impacts of policy differently. Recognising this, the Power to Persuade and Good Shepherd Australia New Zealand, have jointly initated the Women’s Policy Action Tank. This one-day forum will cast a gender lens over policy design […]
The United Nations Association of Australia will host a Consultative Forum in Melbourne, 5-6 September 2016, on the theme: The Economic Empowerment of Women and Girls This theme aligns with the focus for the 61st Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), to be held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York in March […]
Stay tuned for actions you can take in 2017 to advocate for women’s rights and gender equality in Australia