Monday, January 2, 2012
COSBOA is pleased with the progress of engagement with government over the last year and fully expects that 2012 will see the removal of red tape and better recognition that small businesses are people. Peter Strong, Executive Director of COSBOA, stated that “at the beginning of 2011 the person in a small business had reached [...]
Monday, December 12, 2011
he Australian Government is investing an additional $130,000 to the National Women’s Alliances to ensure women across Australia have a strong voice on the issues that affect them. The National Women’s Alliances brings together women’s organisations and individuals across the nation to share information, identify issues that affect them and work with the Government to [...]
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Pacific women suffering in terrible silence “EVERYONE wept!” Penny Williams, Australia’s new Global Ambassador for Women and Girls, had eyes the size of saucers as she described the scene at a recent Australia-US discussion about violence against women in the Pacific. “They were loud tears too, and I mean really loud. We were all crying.” [...]
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Asia Pacific Women’s Watch APWW has circulated the Rio+20 Women’s Major Group submission summary which was presented on November 1st in response to the request for input by the Secretariat for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development. The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), also known as Rio+20, will take place in Brazil in [...]
Friday, November 11, 2011
Australia is second best ‐ almost but not quite the greatest place in which to live, according to the latest United Nations human development index. Norway pips us by a flared nostril. Australia scores 0.93 on a scale of 0 to 1, where 1 is the highest score possible. At 0.94, Norway’s margin over Australia [...]
Friday, November 4, 2011
Australian Human Rights Commission Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Elizabeth Broderick released the Report of the Review into the Treatment of Women at the Australian Defence Force Academy. The report details the findings and recommendations of a comprehensive examination of the current culture at ADFA and its impact on the treatment of women. “Generally, we found the [...]
Sunday, October 30, 2011
The world is in danger of missing a golden opportunity for development and economic growth, a “demographic dividend”, as the largest cohort of young people ever known see their most economically productive years wasted, a major UN population report warned last week. The potential economic benefits of having such a large global population of young [...]
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Civil society representatives gathered in Perth today for the start of the three-day Commonwealth People’s Forum to discuss and debate key issues facing Commonwealth People. The Forum was officially opened by the Hon. Julia Gillard MP, Prime Minister of Australia in a ceremony also addressed by Premier of Western Australia, The Hon. Colin Barnett MLA, [...]
Friday, October 14, 2011
U.S. Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered keynote remarks on the inclusion of women as an economic growth strategy at the first-ever Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Women and the Economy Summit (WES) in San Francisco, California on 16 September 2011.
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Kevin Rudd, Minister for Foreign Affairs A crisis of truly biblical proportions now faces the international community in the Horn of Africa. More than 12 million people — over half the population of Australia — are in need of urgent help because of famine and drought. In July, I visited Somalia and saw first-hand this [...]