Media Releases
3 August 2010
Paid Parental Leave- Government and Opposition policies
The Opposition released their revised Paid Parental Leave Scheme on Tuesday August 3. The media release states: "The Coalition's Paid Parental Leave scheme will:
31 July 2010
Mumsy Taxation is causing workforce economy to bottom out
*LISA PRYOR - *IMAGINE for a moment if miners thought like women. Imagine if upon hearing about a government proposal which went against their interests, they simply accepted it. Imagine if Twiggy Forrest simply sat down at his home computer and looked for ways to redraw the budget, work a bit harder, juggle things a bit.
26 July 2010
Paid Parent Leave Scheme
The Government's Paid Parental Leave Scheme has been enacted, and the current stage of development by FAHSCIA will flow through to introduction on 1 January 2011, subject to the outcomes of the 2010 Commonwealth Election.
26 July 2010
NFAW Submission on Caring for Older Australians
The NFAW has prepared a submission to the Productivity Commission inquiry into Caring for Older Australians.
Events & activities
Journey to Gender Equality - 2010 Election Platform Recommendations
Women in Australia are demanding the 2010 Federal Election
makes a change towards gender equality.
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 supporting the Holroyd High Fund for education of refugee and migrant girls 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.