LINKS TO OTHER SITES OF INTEREST

Australian Domestic & Family Violence Clearinghouse

Anti-Discrimination Board of NSW
http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/adb

Australian Women's Health Network http://www.awhn.org.au/

The Australian Women's Health Network (AWHN) is a community based, non-profit, consultative organisation that provides a national voice on women's health issues. AWHN was established in 1986 and operates as a women's health advocacy, information and lobbying organisation, working with Government policy makers and other agencies to improve the health and well-being of Australian women.

Bessie Smyth Foundation www.bessiesmyth.org.au

This website contains information on pregnancy decision making resources such a Values Clarification and Pregnancy Decision making Guide and some history material about Bessie. It also has the complete list of NSW abortion clinics and, though it is being updated it is still OK to use. The fees information will be changed because of the change in directives to providers of Medicare

Child Care Pay Equity Case

The NSW Childcare Pay Equity case commenced on Wednesday 24 th August, 2005. There will be further hearings of the Childcare Pay Equity case at the NSW IR Commission on Wednesday and Thursday 24th-25th August and also September 20th, 21st, 22nd. There will be witnesses and submissions from the union and the 4-5 employers associations involved.

Anyone is welcome to attend any of the hearing dates.  This is really the first time that the principle of "work value" will be genuinely tested in the NSW jurisdiction - and unfortunately, it may be the last pay equity case we hear at the NSW IRC if the Federal Government takes over state jurisdiction.

Check out http://www.lhmu.org.au/childcare/index.html for more information.

FPA Health
http://www.fpahealth.org.au

Jessie Street National Women’s Library
http://www.jessiestreetwomenslibrary.com

NSW Charter of Human Rights Group http://www.nswcharterofhumanrights.org/

Older Women's Network http://www.own.org.au/index.php

Paid Maternity Leave campaign by National Foundation of Australian Women www.nfaw.org

Pay Equity Now! is an e-newsletter produced by Public Services International as part of its pay equity campaign. It provides information on pay equity concerns and achievements, including reports of union activities, information on collective bargaining and equality issues, job evaluation schemes, training and capacity building initiatives and details of new research and publications. It is produced bi-monthly in English and Spanish. Subscribe on-line at www.world-psi.org/subscribe, or email: equality@world-psi.org. Contributions and comments are welcome.

Preterm Foundation
http://www.pretermaust.org

www.annesummers.com.au

WEL History Project:
Marian Sawer and Gail Radford of the ANU's WEL History Project have completed a number of interesting reports on:
* the survey research conducted for the project
* WEL in the media 1972-2002
* the Location of WEL Groups
* WEL submissions
* references to WEL in Hansard
The reports are online at http://wel.anu.edu.au

WEL's submission to the Australian Industrial Relations Commission on Work and Family: http://www.airc.gov.au/familyprovisions/other/WEL_Final_Nov04.pdf

Wirringa Baiya Aboriginal Womens Legal Service
http://www.wirringabaiya.org.au/aboutus.htm

The WiSER View: http://the-wiser-view.blogspot.com

The hope is that the blog will serve to generate discussion of the social and economic issues impacting on women and the broader community. You are welcome to leave a comment - please note that your comment will not appear on the blog straight away as it passed through a vetting process first - this is in the interests of preventing spam entries. Read WiSER's response to Joe Hockey's criticism of the recently released national report into Women and WorkChoices. There is hope that everyone will become active readers and contributors to The WiSER View! 

Working Women’s Centre NSW
http://www.wwc.org.au

WEL Victoria: visit this updated web site: http://www.welvic.org.au/