Institutional capture? The ABC, advocacy, and accountability
In this episode of the Women's Advocate, Emma and Megan discuss the ABC’s relationship with ACON, the LGBTQ+ advocacy organisation behind the Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI). Following the ...
20 Nov 202510min
Campaigning against the UN expert on women: DFAT's gender back-channels revealed
We unpack revelations from a Freedom of Information release showing how the Australian Government works behind the scenes to push back against independent UN scrutiny of our nation's women's rights re...
12 Nov 20259min
Forced alignment: Defending our feminist tradition
Emma and Liv push back against the mischaracterisation of women's rights organisations advocating for sex-based protections as 'right-wing', 'reactionary', or 'extremist'. They trace the feminist line...
30 Okt 202512min
FOI evidence of systematic exclusion: Stakeholders versus submissions
Emma and Megan unpack shocking FOI evidence showing systematic exclusion of women's groups from policies affecting our sex-based protections and rights. Whilst LGBTQIA+ organisations receive formal ad...
23 Okt 202510min
From sex self-ID to women's sex-based protection: NT leads the way
In this episode, Emma and Martine explore the Northern Territory’s landmark decision to ban all male prisoners from women’s jails—an “on my watch” promise from Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro that has ...
16 Okt 20259min
Inquiring into uncertainty: The AHRC's unused powers
Emma and Megan examine how forty years after the Sex Discrimination Act was passed to implement CEDAW, confusion over sex-based protections is leaving women's services, sporting bodies, and advocacy g...
13 Okt 20258min
Local Action: Janet Fraser — roots, backlash, and the renaissance ahead
Emma and Sue unpack Janet Fraser’s journey from second‑wave roots and lesbian organising in the ’90s to founding Joyous Birth after a traumatic hospital transfer, being branded for saying ‘birthing wo...
7 Okt 20254min
Women shut out: Inside WA’s surrogacy overhaul
Emma hosts Amber and Martine to unpack Western Australia’s surrogacy ‘reform’: how an industry‑led process sidelined women’s voices, abolished ex‑ante safeguards, and bundled ART with surrogacy to fas...
5 Okt 202511min
