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The AAWAA Women’s Advocate

Meet your Women’s Advocates

Meet the voices behind The AAWAA Women’s Advocate podcast. Our women’s rights advocates are experienced communicators coming to you from across Australia, bringing insight, real-world experience, and incisive discussion to every episode. Our mission is to unpack legal, social, and advocacy issues affecting women and girls today with accuracy, empathy, and a commitment to open debate.

Emma, Far North Queensland.
Host.
Sue, Queensland.
Co-host, Local Action.
Megan, Canberra.
Project lead.
Amber, Western Australia.
Issues specialist.
Lucy, New South Wales.
Subject generalist.
Martine, Western Australia.
Strategy advisor.
Luci, Canberra.
International expert.
Suzi, New South Wales.
Guidelines analyst.
Liv, New South Wales.
Narrative analyst.

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Christmas wrap 2025: AAWAA's year of consolidation and strategic advocacy – The AAWAA Women’s Advocate

AAWAA's Christmas Wrap for 2025: Emma hosts Martine, Luci, and Suzi as they look back on a transformative year for AAWAA. They discuss coordinated national campaigns on sex self-ID and surrogacy prohibition, groundbreaking UN submissions on women's human rights, the 2025 federal election push to restore sex-based protections, international momentum against surrogacy, how we've built genuine cross-state collaboration on policy and strategy, and what it means to organise as feminists across Australia. Serious, strategic and upbeat – this is how to build a real movement.This podcast provides general information and opinion only and does not constitute legal advice. Listeners should seek independent, professional legal advice before acting on any matters discussed. The hosts and AAWAA accept no liability for decisions made based on this content.
  1. Christmas wrap 2025: AAWAA's year of consolidation and strategic advocacy
  2. Can the ALRC recommend surrogacy prohibition? What the law actually says
  3. Prohibition or regulation? The ALRC's surrogacy review and feminist resistance
  4. Beyond 'yes' and 'no': Structural inequality and the law of rape
  5. Evidence required: Why Australia must assess impact on women
  6. Institutional capture? The ABC, advocacy, and accountability
  7. Campaigning against the UN expert on women: DFAT's gender back-channels revealed
  8. Forced alignment: Defending our feminist tradition
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