Quarterlies

Read about our next community kōrero star, Dr Emma Espiner, the impact of this lockdown on Auckland women, and some positve government policy changes for mums.

At our forum with Khylee Quince, Dean of Law, AUT, Khylee mixed humour with straight-talking to offer a blueprint for change-makers.

Cervical Cancer: Government funding urgently needed for HPV self-testing; What is a Feminist Green New Deal? It’s the deal to save the world!; Gender Gap Facts Did you know…

Meet our new Women’s Services Coordinator, Kaitlin Henderson; Compulsory Gender and Sexuality Education Needed to Re-shape Gender Expectations; Bold Leadership Required to Prevent Authorities Sexism.

Use the Covid rebuild to presure and support shovel-ready sectors to shed their patriarchal ethos and hire women. Secondly invest in health, education and community devlopment – this will create jobs while increasing well-being.

What Women Need from the Next Government, lawyers and politicians attack proposed protection for sexual violence survivors, Supporting the best future for wāhine Māori.

Spending for a better future for women especially wāhine Māori and others who carry a greater burden. Meet some of AWC’s wonderful voluneers.

Aotearoa New Zealand needs multipronged violence prevent campaigns, Tracey McIntosh’s remedies for our unequal society, our Youth Coordinator reports on her Consent Club work at summer festivals and a year after Christchurch: Lets Deal With It.

Taking misogyny out of mainstream porn, Coming up: A kōrero with Prof Tracey McIntosh, and Equal Pay Bill creates more problems than it solves.

National strategy required for contraception, Report on our abortion law reform forum, Law Commisson advice: to reduce court stress for victims of sexual and family violence.

Abortion Law Reform: Demand the Best Option for Women, Young People Want Restrictions on Porn and Relationship Property Law Changes Coming.

The National Council of Women’s He Toa Takitini (Strength in Diversity) conference, RBG and the Auckland Feminist Actions protest against the disturbing gender imbalance in National Design awards.

#MeToo Forum, the Motherhood Penalty, scrap the sanction on single mum beneficiaries, High School Feminism Project Forges Ahead

Come to our #MeToo Forum, Family Court Review should focus on Domestic Violence, New Youth Coordinator AND MORE.

Supporting Young Feminist Activists, #Times Up in 2018, Government Listens on Pay Equity, Feminist Art for a change AND MORE.

Read a report on our forum featuring the courageous and inspirational Austarlian Feminist, Clementine Ford. Enjoy profiles of the 17 new female MPs in our new parlaiment.

Includes a report on our comedy night, the need to tackle the root causes of domestic violence, and a review of the feminist play ‘If there’s not dancing at the revolution I’m not coming.’

Includes a report on our Feminist Parenting Forum, an analysis of the new Equal Pay BIll, and the Government’s performace over the last nine years.

Includes the second part of our report on our Women in Prison Forum, Stop the Sanctions on Single Mother Benefciaries, and a welcome to our new Counsellor, Jane Tyrer.

Includes a report on the powerful forum ‘Women in Prisons, an article articulating Young Women’s needs and info about our fabulous Charity Comedy

Includes a report on the wonderful forum ‘Women of the Polynesian Panthers’ and Feminists at the Auckland Writers Festival and more. Check out our new look and title.

Pornography’s impact on young people’s sexual knowledge and practices, and introduction to new Governance Collective members, and the state of migrant and refugee women in New Zealand are discussed.

Meet our new Collective members, read about the Pornography Symposium and our Women and Climate Justice Forum.

A report on “A night with Alison Bechdel” and our forum on preventing sexual violence. Learn about the Women’s Election Agenda and meet some of our wonderful AWC volunteers.

We welcome new members to the AWC’s collective; have important dialogue around the Livingstone tragedy; discuss justice for rape survivors; and look at the principles that must be followed in order for the Vulnerable Children’s Bill to be successful.

Enjoy a report on our recent Women’s Talk forum and on the women’s Living Wage forum.  And learn about the Pro-choice Highway and the doco “Love and Sex in an Age of Pornography”.

Meet our FAB new Governance Collective members, learn about the reforms to the Family Court, how television affects women’s employment choices and about a historic pay equity court case.

Read about the myths that the Government’s DPB policy is based on, an interesting perspective on the Marriage Equality Act and all the events, services, workshops and courses you can enjoy at the Centre.

Read about the myths that the Government’s DPB policy is based on, an interesting perspective on the Marriage Equality Act and all the events, services, workshops and courses you can enjoy at the Centre.

Hope you enjoy this edition with information about the proposed changes to the Family Court, what CEDAW thinks of women’s position in NZ and 40 years of feminism with one of our Governance Collective members, Aorewa McLeod.

An analysis of the Child Support Amendment Bill, support for the Human Rights Commission’s report on the EEO issues in the aged care sector and info re Women’s Talk, Sing for your Supper and a seminar on women and the family law courts.

We hope you enjoy this issue with full coverage of AWC happenings, the bias of the Family Court, an open letter to DB Breweries re Tui’s sexist advertisng and a short article on the need to extend paid parental leave.

Meet the new women involved with the Centre this year.  Great article on how we can improve the criminal justice system for sexual violence victims.  A campaign to stop Tui’s sexist TV ads and an invitation to Women Talk – a celebration of International women’s Day.