Media Releases
8 June 2009
Paid Parental Leave Best Mothers Day Present Ever
The Australian Children’s Commissioners and Guardians and the National Foundation for Australian Women warmly welcomed the announcement of the introduction of national Paid Parental Leave entitlements for Australia’s babies and their working mums and dads.
8 June 2009
The Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and Outcomes for Australian Women
NFAW, in association with Security for Women and the WomenSpeak Alliance, is coordinating a project to assess the gender implications for Australian women and girls of the GFC.
8 June 2009
New National Women's Health Strategy
NFAW attended a RoundTable convened by the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing to consider strategic approaches to a new national women’s health strategy. Subsequently, DoHA offered NFAW ( and others present) a grant to assist with the costs of consulting with our stakeholders on the proposed strategy.
8 June 2009
Update on Child Care and Out of School Hours Care
In our submission to the Henry Review of Australia’s Future Tax System we discussed inter alia the losses to the revenue from taxation expenditures, and developed the argument specifically in relation to taxation expenditures and child care.
Events & activities
NFAW Annual Dinner
22 July 2009
National Foundation of Australian Women - Annual Dinner -
Brisbane
Winter Tales 2009
26 July 2009
Jennifer Coombes – Special Collections Archivist, NGA
Artistic silences: women and art in the NGA Research
Library collections
Sunday 26 July at 2pm, 4th floor conference room, National
Library
*Entry $15
**Bookings 62621271* (NLA)
or Patti Kendall on 62478102 or
kendall@netspeed.com.au[mailto:kendall@netspeed.com.au]
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.