National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW) Responds to the 2024 Federal Budget: A more ambitious and comprehensive action plan is needed
National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW) Responds to the 2024 Federal Budget: A more ambitious and comprehensive action plan is needed
The National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW) welcomes the Australian Government's release of its first-ever gender equality strategy, Working for Women: A Strategy for Gender Equality. NFAW President Jane Madden said it was an urgent necessity for the Australian Government to integrate gender equality across all facets of its policy and decision-making.
We welcome the Committee’s invitation to comment on the Australian Human Rights Commission Amendment (Costs Protection) Bill 2023 [Provisions]. NFAW previously made a submission to the Inquiry into the Anti-Discrimination and Human Rights Legislation Amendment (Respect at Work) Bill 2022 which adopted previous recommendations made by NFAW and other women’s organisations to better implement the recommendations of the Respect@Work report.
mproving decision-making around future pandemics requires an understanding of the decision-making that underpinned Australia’s COVID-19 response – not only how decisions were made, but also by whom and on what basis.
We respect the right of first nations women and girls to set the priorities for their future, grounded in first nation ways of working and understand of your own needs, as set out in the implementation statement.
We recommend that the issues around advocacy must be clarified though legislation to ensure consistency of administration. We are of the view that theNFP sector is currently under resourced.Donors, quite rightly, prefer to see their funding directed to the cause and not to administration costs. However, governance and increasing reliance on technology has limited the capacity of volunteers to resource and manage organisations.This can only be addressed through a level of professionalisation that must be funded appropriately through government support.
NFAW is dedicated to promoting and protecting the interests of Australian women, including intellectual, cultural, political, social, economic, legal, industrial and domestic spheres, and ensuring that the aims and ideals of the women’s movement and its collective wisdom are handed on to new generations of women. NFAW is a feminist organisation, independent of party politics and working Supporting women to achieve VET-based careers –Discussion Paper in partnership with other women’s organisations.
NFAW are honoured to share the opening address of the 75th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the Australian Ambassador for Human Rights, Bronte Moules.
The National Foundation for Australian Women supports in principle the imposition of a higher tax rate on high balance accounts. We are concerned that the principle of equitable outcomes will be lost in the discussion around the mechanics of how the charge will be calculated, particularly the characterisation as a tax on unrealised gains.