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AWC joins wave of criticism of transphobic education proposals

Media release, 1 May 2025 Auckland Women’s Centre is the latest in a growing number of organisations expressing serious concerns regarding the draft Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) Framework for schools. Leonie Morris, Project Lead for the Centre’s Aotearoa Free From Stalking campaign described the draft framework as “a significant failure in supporting the diverse ...

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Confused about equity, ethnicity and healthcare? The experts got you covered

These descriptions are drawn from our community kōrero about the health system with Lady Tureiti Moxon and Dr Elana Curtis in March 2025.  Healthcare for Māori should not just be needs-based but also rights-based Whereas “equitable outcomes” can refer to any two or more groups – not just ethnic groups, and not just Māori – ...

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Posted: April 29, 2025Categories: , ,

“Shame on your undies!” – health experts on racist governments

From the current “evil layer” of emboldened racism here and around the world, to a vision of aroha and equity at the centre of healthcare, health system experts Lady Tureiti Moxon (Ngāti Pāhauwera, Ngāti Kahungunu, Kāi Tahu) and Dr Elana Curtis (Ngāti Rongomai, Ngāti Pikiao, Te Arawa) covered sooo many topics that you really need ...

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Posted: April 29, 2025Categories: , ,

Your opportunity to push back on cruel & dangerous “education”

The government is attempting to impose its extremist transphobic, racist, colonial and misogynistic views on the next generation via wholesale changes to education about relationships & sexuality. You can let them know what they’re doing is unacceptable. The sensitive and vital curriculum area of relationships and sexuality can have enormous impact on how children & ...

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Tautoko to Tamatha Paul

Tautoko to Tamatha Paul and everyone else working hard to ameliorate authorities’ immediate and ongoing responses to crisis and emergency – whether due to violence, other crimes, and/or health emergencies including mental distress.  Many individuals and communities have reason not to trust the police, including many women experiencing family violence, sexual violence or other forms ...

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Posted: April 3, 2025Categories: , , ,

Meet Veronica – our Counselling Services Coordinator

Our expanded counselling programme now has a fantastic coordinator to provide supervision to students on placement with us, and to match women seeking counselling with the best-fit counsellor for them. We’re delighted that our inaugural counselling services coordinator is Veronica Cusack, one of our very first placement students (after a career change), now graduated! Veronica ...

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Posted: March 19, 2025Category:

Letter to Minister Stanford – RSE Guidelines

Hon. Erica Stanford Minister of Education E.Stanford@ministers.govt.nz   17 March 2025   Tēnā koe Minister Stanford, I write on behalf of Auckland Women’s Centre to join our concerns to those of Sexual Wellbeing Aotearoa and the Mental Health Foundation regarding the removal of the Relationships and Sexuality Education Guidelines from the Ministry of Education website. ...

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Posted: March 17, 2025Categories: , , ,

Happy International Women’s Day! 10 (or more) Things to Read Watch Learn

(aka: don’t sleep on MāoriPlus, they have amazing material from Aotearoa and around the world) International Women’s Day is celebrated on Saturday 8 March this year – so we’ve curated a weekend reading/watching/learning list for you all – several parts fun to some parts serious – on the extremely timely 2025 United Nations theme: “For ...

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Posted: March 7, 2025Categories: , , , ,

Speak your truth to power: a guide to making oral submissions

Karawhiua – you can do it! Telling personal stories can make a difference.  Part of the usual process of law-making – turning Bills into Acts of Parliament – is the public getting to have their say on the proposed new law. Anybody can write a submission to whichever select committee of MPs is reviewing the ...

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Posted: February 28, 2025Categories: ,

Our submission on the anti-stalking bill

Ma te kotahitanga e whai kaha ai tātou In unity we have strength   The Auckland Women’s Centre “Aotearoa Free From Stalking” submission on the anti-stalking bill (aka the Crimes Legislation (Stalking and Harassment) Legislation Bill) made 15 recommendations urging critical changes to ensure the bill meets its goals.  Our submission is informed by the 90 ...

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Posted: February 25, 2025Categories: ,