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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.
Executive Producer and Host, The Women’s Advocate and Local Action
Martine, Western Australia.
Host, The Unmoved Feminist.
Sue, Queensland.
Co-host, Local Action.
Lucy, New South Wales.
Subject generalist.
Luci, Canberra.
International expert.
Liv, Academic analyst, The Unmoved Feminist.
Amber, Western Australia.
Senior Editor and Issues specialist.
Suzi, New South Wales.
Guidelines analyst.
Megan, Canberra.
Editor-in-Chief

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Women are not for use and children are not for transfer: The Melbourne Declaration to Abolish Surrogacy – The AAWAA Women’s Advocate

As the Australian Law Reform Commission prepares to provide its report on surrogacy laws, Megan and Amber read the Melbourne Declaration to Abolish Surrogacy in full. The Declaration emerged from the National Conference on Surrogacy, ‘In the Name of the Child’, held in Melbourne in August 2026. It calls on Australian governments to abolish all forms of surrogacy and to protect the rights of those already affected without using those protections to justify future arrangements.__DonateIf you wish to donate to AAWAA you can do so by making a direct deposit or bank transfer to:Account name: Affiliation of Australian Women’s Advocacy AlliancesAccount number: 04201471BSB: 325-185__Disclosure statementVoices in this podcast are AI-generated clones of real, named AAWAA members, created and used with their informed consent to help amplify women's words and stories. All scripts and spoken content are written by AAWAA women, and all editorial judgement, fact-checking, and production decisions remain entirely human. AI is used only to voice this content: never to generate, alter, or invent what is said. Learn more at womensadvocacy.net.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. Women are not for use and children are not for transfer: The Melbourne Declaration to Abolish Surrogacy
  2. The convoluted ways of patriarchy: An interview with Reem Alsalem, UNSRVAWG
  3. The exemption problem: How a practical default is becoming a developing expectation
  4. UN Special Rapporteur sets out concerns at national surrogacy conference
  5. Dr Megan Blake on reforming the Sex Discrimination Act: An interview
  6. TUF. Female alignment with male power: What feminist theory says
  7. Redirected to writing, then left wondering about the surrogacy review: Our time with the ALRC
  8. Weaponising guilt: Tasmania’s Greens, forced teaming and conversion practices
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