Latest news
15 May 2008
Celebrate our Queensland board members
Please join Quentin Bryce and the National Foundation for Australian Women
to celebrate the appointment of two new Queensland
Board Members.
Thursday 5th June, Brisbane Powerhouse, New Farm
13 May 2008
Rudd government budget impacts on women
Some aspects of the Rudd government’s first budget will have a significantly greater impact on women than on men.
6 May 2008
Maternity leave: who should pay for what?
The majority of working families currently carry the cost of maternity leave, with help from the Government’s baby bonus.
NFAW supports the Perry Plan of providing 28 weeks full earnings replacement maternity leave for working mothers, funded through a combination of the Baby Bonus (provided to all women) plus a levy on all employers of 0.5% of their total wage bill and 0.5% of the wages of employees earning $10,000 or more per year.
7 May 2008
National Press Club Gender Equity Forum – Equal Pay: the bottom line
A panel of eminent government, business and academic figures discuss why the disparity persists and what, if anything, can or should be done about it.
13 April 2008
Media Release – First woman GG for Australia
The National Foundation of Australian Women (NFAW) congratulates Quentin Bryce on her appointment as Australia’s first female Governor-General for Australia.
9 April 2008
Winters tales 2008 – National Library, Canberra
Three speakers will give their ‘take’ on life in Canberra, women’s lives, their choices, or lack of them, and prospects for the future.
7 March 2008
Media Release – Roadmap for Australian women
The National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW) calls on the Rudd government to agree to develop a National Women’s Agenda to establish its credentials on women’s issues.
18 February 2008
Productivity Commission to Investigate Paid Maternity Leave
The Hon Julia Gillard MP and The Hon Jenny Macklin MP announce that the Government will ask the Productivity Commission to examine ways the Government can provide improved support to parents with newborn children.
25 January 2008
Media release – Call for action on pay equity
NFAW welcomes the EOWA report showing that pay inequity in Australia is alive and well, and calls for the Rudd government to take action
20 January 2008
NFAW 2008 Budget submissions
In response the government's request for submissions for the coming budget, NFAW has presented submissions on three topics:
- Wage equity
- Paid maternity leave
- Child abuse and neglect
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
- Women on Boards – a network focussed on mentoring women into directorships
- Social policy work - in 2006 this group is working on benchmarking working women's wages and conditions, and problems in the income support available to women wanting to re-skill themselves.
- Women’s History Month– in March each year, a specific contribution of Australian women is promoted; this year it was 'Arm in Arm: Indigenous and non-Indigenous Women Working Together'
- 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, Australian Women’s History Forum and the Social Policy Committee) as well as to other women’s organisations and projects through the NFAW preferred donor arrangements.