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The AAWAA Women’s Advocate — 85 episodes

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TUF: Patriarchy -- the structure we are not supposed to name

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The SDA timeline: CEDAW, the 2013 amendments, and the loss of women’s sex‑based protections and rights

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‘A different time’ is not an argument: Reckoning with the 2013 SDA amendments

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Women take their questions to the AHRC in Adelaide -- but are still waiting for answers

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TUF: Female‑only spaces and the politics of women’s safety

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"Celebrated, not debated": The AHRC's answer on deficient exemption guidelines

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'No plans' for women and girls: AHRC says women must seek exemptions to keep female-only protections

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TUF: Counting women: Why sex‑based data still matters

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TUF: The feminist waves and why sex‑based feminism still matters

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Managing the mandate: How Australia handles the UN SRVAWG as a diplomatic inconvenience

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Beyond beds and referrals: Addressing the root causes of women's mental distress

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Tasmania's mental health reboot: Ensuring women aren't erased

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Did the AHRC seek costs against the Lesbian Action Group? A timeline

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Older women fall between every plan: Male violence, policy, and the gap no one is closing

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When consent law looks for excuses, not proof

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The Court has spoken: Women are no longer pre-eminent in our own law

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Dismantling stereotypes — or reinforcing them? The CEDAW Committee's confused framework

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TUF: Prostitution and the sexual contract

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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

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

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

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Her super, his payday: closing the male violence loophole

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Violence against older women: What Australia won’t count

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

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Repeat episode. Forced alignment: Defending our feminist tradition

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Local Action: Accuracy over approval, Dr Megan Blake

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The unintended consequences of Victoria's conversion ban

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

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Constructive reduction: How NCC 2025 cuts female‑only toilets

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

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

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Three commissioners, one conversation: Women's advocates brief the Australian Human Rights Commission

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Underground again: How governance failures erase lesbian rights

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Male violence against mothers: Making it visible

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

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

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

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

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

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Evidence required: Why Australia must assess impact on women

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Institutional capture? The ABC, advocacy, and accountability

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

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Forced alignment: Defending our feminist tradition

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FOI evidence of systematic exclusion: Stakeholders versus submissions

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

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Inquiring into uncertainty: The AHRC's unused powers

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

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Women shut out: Inside WA’s surrogacy overhaul

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

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

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

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

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Local Action: The builder, Feminist matriarch Merike Johnson

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Scotland’s abolition bill: How Australia must go further

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

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

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False equivalence: The wrongs of treating surrogacy as fertility support

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Local Action: Reclaiming lesbian space, The Carole Ann episode

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

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Holding Australia to account: Providing evidence to the United Nations

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Unintended chaos: The legal fallout of two missing words

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Revolutionising gender care: A call for comprehensive change

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

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Women's rights in Australia: A step backward?

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

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Local Action: Betty McLellan’s feminist ethic

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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

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Local Action: Advocating for biological reality, Stassja Frei

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Navigating gender law: UK vs Australia unpacked

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

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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