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ALSA is committed to promoting the involvment of women in law. Historically, women have faced massive discrimiation and barriers to being involved in the legal system, at all levels. This page provides information for LSS's and law students on the orgnaisations working to reduce the discrimination that has been inherent in our legal system. Her Excellency, Ms Quentin Bryce, Governor-General of Australia presented a speech at the University of Melbourne that looks at extroadinary women and the way they have helped shape higher education and a woman's place in society today. http://newsroom.melbourne.edu/news/n-166 - courtesy of The Melbourne Newsroom. Categories
Women Lawyers Organisations - IndependentAustralian Women LawyersThis association is the peak body of women legal practitioners' associations across Australia. AWL is concerned with issues relating to the practice and advancement of women in the legal profession and with a wide range of legal, social justice and equity issues. National Womens Justice CoalitionThe NWJC is a coalition of organisations and individuals which aims to promote women's equality before the law in Australia. The NWJC aims to promote women's equality before the law by working at a national level. Womens Electoral Lobby (WEL) Australia IncWEL is a feminist political organisation founded in 1972 as a women's political lobby. WEL is non-sectarian and non-party-political and all political views are found within the membership. It is the national lobby organisation for all Australian women. International Labour Organization - Bureau of Gender EqualityThe promotion of justice and the improvement of working conditions of women and men have always been guiding principles of the ILO. The Bureau of Gender Equality examines and publishes information on the situation of women at work around the world, in terms of human rights ...
Commonwealth Government – Departments and OfficesOffice for Women‘The Australian Government Office for Women (OfW) is a policy advisory unit and a division of the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs in Australia. All of our work is founded on the goal of mainstreaming women's issues. This means working to ensure that a focus on women's experiences, issues or perspectives becomes everyone's business’. Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity CommissionThe Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission is a national independent statutory government body, established in 1986 by Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Act (Cth). The federal Attorney General is the Minister responsible in Parliament for the Commission. ... Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace AgencyEOWA’s role is to administer the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Act 1999 (Commonwealth) and through education, assist organisations to achieve equal opportunity for women. Cases and Legislation Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Act 1999 (Cth) Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (CTH) Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Decisions
Other Resources – Journals and Links Australian Virtual Centre for Women and the LawWomen and the lawPaid maternity leave: activities on gender equality in the workplaceGender and the LawEquality before the law: justice for women: [part 1] [part 2] ALRC report recommending changes to Australian laws so as to remove any unjustifiable discriminatory effects of those laws on or of their application to women with a view to ensuring their full equality before the law. After Ada: a new precedent for women in lawThis paper aims to critically evaluate the role and experience of women in the legal profession at the beginning of the 21st century and provides an agenda for change. Women Watch: the UN working for womenThis is a joint UN project to create a core Internet space on global women's issues. It was created to monitor the results of the Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing in 1995. It was founded in March 1997 by the Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW). SPEECH by the Honourable Justice Michael Kirby AC CMG (2003)SPEECH by the Honourable Justice Ruth McColl AO (2006)State Based Resources and Information ACTAustralian Capital Territory Discrimination Tribunal Decisions NEW SOUTH WALESAnti-Discrimination Act 1977 (NSW) Industrial Commission of New South Wales decisions New South Wales Anti-Discrimination Board New South Wales Office for Women Equal Employment Opportunity in the NSW Public Sector NORTHERN TERRITORYAnti-Discrimination Act 1992 (NT) Northern Territory Anti-Discrimination Commission decisions QUEENSLANDAnti-Discrimination Act 1991 (QLD) Anti-Discrimination Tribunal Queensland Decisions Anti-Discrimination Commission Queensland Queensland Government Office for Women SOUTH AUSTRALIAEqual Opportunity Act 1984 (SA) Equal Opportunity Commission of South Australia Office for Women, South Australia TASMANIAAnti-Discrimination Act 1998 (TAS) Office of the Anti-Discrimination Commissioner VICTORIAEqual Opportunity Act 1995 (VIC) Equal Opportunity Commission Victoria Victorian Office of Womens Policy WESTERN AUSTRALIA |