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The AAWAA Women’s Advocate — 68 episodes

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TUF: Prostitution and the sexual contract

2

Surrogacy is not 'fertility support': Our evidence to the NSW inquiry

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Power, proportionality, and the Lesbian Action Group: When the AHRC stands in its own shoes

4

Guardianship, not paternalism: a different way to think about surrogacy and the state

5

Agency ends when the surrogacy contract begins: lived experience, power and law‑making

6

Her super, his payday: closing the male violence loophole

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Violence against older women: What Australia won’t count

8

TUF: Women as a sex class in a world of 'identity'

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Repeat episode. Forced alignment: Defending our feminist tradition

10

Local Action: Accuracy over approval, Dr Megan Blake

11

The unintended consequences of Victoria's conversion ban

12

Equality Australia, tax perks and a Governor‑General beyond scrutiny

13

Constructive reduction: How NCC 2025 cuts female‑only toilets

14

CEDAW and the Netherlands: Why “sex work” isn’t women’s rights

15

Dismissed, delayed, doubted: The age pension audit and what it doesn't say

16

Three commissioners, one conversation: womens advocates brief the Australian Human Rights Commission

17

Underground again: How governance failures erase lesbian rights

18

Male violence against mothers: Making it visible

19

Criminalising advocacy: Why Australia's hate groups bill threatens political freedom

20

Christmas wrap 2025: AAWAA's year of consolidation and strategic advocacy

21

Can the ALRC recommend surrogacy prohibition? What the law actually says

22

Prohibition or regulation? The ALRC's surrogacy review and feminist resistance

23

Beyond 'yes' and 'no': Structural inequality and the law of rape

24

Evidence required: Why Australia must assess impact on women

25

Institutional capture? The ABC, advocacy, and accountability

26

Campaigning against the UN expert on women: DFAT's gender back-channels revealed

27

Forced alignment: Defending our feminist tradition

28

FOI evidence of systematic exclusion: Stakeholders versus submissions

29

From sex self-ID to women's sex-based protection: NT leads the way

30

Inquiring into uncertainty: The AHRC's unused powers

31

Local Action: Janet Fraser — roots, backlash, and the renaissance ahead

32

Women shut out: Inside WA’s surrogacy overhaul

33

Where there is no consultation: WA surrogacy, NSW ‘equality’, and QLD’s sex self-ID problem

34

Demanding accountability: Why we questioned the Sex Discrimination Commissioner at the National Press Club

35

Tasmania’s crossroads: Ending prostitution to protect women and girls

36

Losing our rights? Monitoring the AHRC’s turn away from women

37

Local Action: The builder, Feminist matriarch Merike Johnson

38

Scotland’s abolition bill: How Australia must go further

39

Not at the stakeholder table: The ongoing exclusion of women in policy

40

Hidden in plain sight: Australia’s failure to protect women’s rights

41

False equivalence: The wrongs of treating surrogacy as fertility support

42

From crisis to care: Putting women and girls at the heart of NSW’s Mental Health Strategy

43

Local Action: Justice and resistance, Isla MacGregor’s activist legacy

44

Bad law, silenced voices: WA’s ART & Surrogacy Bill

45

Blueprint for female toilets: The ongoing struggle for women-only facilities

46

Safeguarding our status: What women need from anti-discrimination law reform

47

A National Apology for women and girls in prostitution: Truth, reform, justice, and restoration

48

Guidelines or law? Why government policy doesn’t trump the Sex Discrimination Act

49

Female association on trial: Who belongs in women's spaces in Tickle v Giggle

50

Where’s the line? Balancing hate speech, women’s rights, and free speech in NSW

51

Local Action: Reclaiming lesbian space, The Carole Ann episode

52

Triple A for women: The path to the abolition of prostitution in Australia

53

Holding Australia to account: Providing evidence to the United Nations

54

Unintended chaos: The legal fallout of two missing words

55

Revolutionising gender care: A call for comprehensive change

56

Local Action: Everyday resistance every day, Nerissa Scott’s story

57

Women's rights in Australia: A step backward?

58

How AAWAA works: Principles, structure, and advocacy in action

59

Local Action: Betty McLellan’s feminist ethic

60

The secrets of strategic advocacy, AAWAA’s 2025 election campaign: Part 3, What real engagement looks like—Impact, insights, and lessons learned

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The secrets of strategic advocacy, AAWAA’s 2025 election campaign. Part 2, The big push: From preparation to real-rime political action

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The secrets of strategic advocacy, AAWAA’s 2025 election campaign. Part 1, Foundations: How national grassroots advocacy takes shape

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Unveiling the hidden rules of women's sports rights

64

Local Action: Advocating for biological reality, Stassja Frei

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Navigating gender law: UK vs Australia unpacked

66

Clarity in controversy: The UK ruling on ‘woman' explained

67

The hidden crisis of women's retirement security

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A new voice for women’s advocacy in Australia: The AAWAA Women’s Advocate