Media Releases
9 February 2010
Call to Remove Women's Workforce Barriers
The National Women’s Alliance has called on Commonwealth and State/Territory Governments to reduce the systemic barriers to women with family responsibilities who wish to enter or return to the workforce.
22 January 2010
The Review into the Governance, Efficiency, Structure and Operation of Australia’s Superannuation
The NFAW has made a submission to the Phase 3 Governance Discussion Paper of the Cooper Review of Australia’s Superannuation System. The Cooper Review is addressing a range of management issues, and does not cover the broader policy issues concerning superannuation which are being investigated by the team headed by Dr Henry, Secretary of the Treasury.
Events & activities
Barriers to Women's Employment
Report to be launched 9 February 2010. The final
consolidated national report on the project initially
established to inquire into the impact of the recent
recession on Australian women will be launched at
Australia’s Parliament House on 9 February 2010.
Current projects and activities
- Australian Women’s Archives Project – a strategy to identify and support preservation of women’s records and make them accessible to researchers, and it includes an online Register of the location and content of women’s records
- Social policy work - This group is working on women and tax, paid maternity leave, sex discrimination and pay equity issues.
- National History Challenge - This contest encourages Australian school students to learn about Australia's past. NFAW sponsors the Women's Category prize to raise awareness of the role women played in Australia's history.
- NFAW preferred donor fund supports a diverse range of activities. Examples include administering the Marian Eldridge Award (an annual award for aspiring women writers) and supporting the Pamela Denoon lecture presented on International Women’s Day every year (speakers have included Professor Hilary Charlesworth, Judy Horacek and Anne Summers).
Membership of NFAW is open to anyone interested in supporting the goals of NFAW.
Donations to NFAW are tax deductible, and donors can also choose to make tax deductible donations to our own specific projects (Australian Women’s Archives Project, the Social Policy Committee and the National History Challenge) as well as to other women’s organisations and projects through the NFAW preferred donor arrangements.
Protecting our IP we are often asked for permission to reprint material from our web-sites-www.nfaw.org and www.womenaustralia.info. We welcome use of our material, but ask that it be acknowledged on each occasion it is used or cited. If anyone wishes to reprint items in full, then links to our relevant web-site should be provided.