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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.
Producer and 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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Silence from the top: Top officials say nothing as Australia's CSW record deepens – The AAWAA Women’s Advocate

Emma and Luci cover AAWAA's follow-up communication to the UN Commission on the Status of Women, ahead of the 1 August deadline for submissions to CSW71. They discuss the continued silence from Australia's CSW70 delegation since AAWAA first wrote to them in March, and what the new submission documents — Federal Court findings on the Sex Discrimination Act, the AHRC's refusal to act on them, self-ID data from New South Wales, and Western Australia's surrogacy law passed with no genuine parliamentary scrutiny.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. Silence from the top: Top officials say nothing as Australia's CSW record deepens
  2. 'Woman': What Australia's midwifery regulator left undefined
  3. TUF: Patriarchy — the structure we are not supposed to name
  4. The SDA timeline: CEDAW, the 2013 amendments, and the loss of women’s sex‑based protections and rights
  5. ‘A different time’ is not an argument: Reckoning with the 2013 SDA amendments
  6. Women take their questions to the AHRC in Adelaide — but are still waiting for answers
  7. TUF: Female‑only spaces and the politics of women’s safety
  8. "Celebrated, not debated": The AHRC's answer on deficient exemption guidelines
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