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Paid Maternity Leave: the question is no longer if, but when... (2008)

It is a great pleasure to attend my first national PIR group conference here in Canberra. My predecessor always spoke highly of the conferences so when Heather offered me the opportunity, I was keen to participate. I have met with Heather and Stephen on a number of occasions now and there are areas where it makes sense to come together. I would like to talk about one of these areas – PML - in some detail today.

Category, Speech
Sex Discrimination

Work and family: The challenge for modern Australia

"Work and family: The challenge for modern Australia" Speech by Commissioner Pru Goward, Federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Royal Women's Hospital Tracy and Maund Address Royal Women's Hospital, 27 August 2002 Thank you for inviting me here this evening. It is a great privilege to have been...

Category, Speech
Sex Discrimination

Changing Demography with Public Policy: Pru Goward (2006)

Thank you for inviting me to speak this afternoon about the relationship between public policy and demography- policy, demography and destiny. The proposition that public policy can change the composition of our population- its age distribution, its ethnicity or even its class, in other words its demography is, as far as I can see, uncontestable. It has, it can and it will.

Category, Speech
Sex Discrimination

Valuing Parenthood: Paid Maternity Leave - Interim Options Paper Launch

Paid maternity leave: Opting for a future Valuing Parenthood: Paid Maternity Leave - Interim Options Paper Launch. Speech by Pru Goward, Federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner, 18 April 2002. Thank you for being here today in what I trust will be the beginning of an informed and fair-minded public...

Category, Speech
Sex Discrimination

Violence Against Women: A Men's Issue

Thank you for the invitation to speak today. How wonderful it is to see so many men here to support something that has for too long been placed in the "women"s issues" basket, as if violence against women is our problem.

Category, Speech
Sex Discrimination

Ausyouth Conference 2001

The creation of Ausyouth is an initiative that clearly picks up on the real-life needs of today's youth, an initiative that has the potential to foster the building blocks of a progressive caring society, and from a human rights perspective, it's an initiative that addresses some of Australia's obligations with respect to international instruments, to which we as a nation are committed.

Category, Speech
Sex Discrimination

Submission to Inquiry into Human Trafficking (2016)

Submission to Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement   Inquiry into Human Trafficking 4 March 2016     Download PDF (361.96 KB)   Download Word (239.66 KB)  

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Sex Discrimination

Striking the balance with work and family in rural Australia

In reality however rural and regional Australia is a significant employer of Australian women, and the two million women in regional and rural Australia contribute to their local communities and local economies while caring for their families. Certainly the women of Shepparton yesterday did not believe work-life balance was easy in Shepparton.

Category, Speech
Sex Discrimination

Making change happen: The media and violence against women

Let me begin by acknowledging the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation, the traditional owners of the land on which we are now gathered. I pay my respects to your elders, past and present, and all the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and men who work tirelessly to eliminate violence against women.

Category, Speech
Sex Discrimination

Firing up Women

Thank you for inviting me here this morning. I am delighted to have been asked to speak at this historic national gathering. I hope and trust this forum is the beginning of a more permanent forum for women in the Australian fire services.

Category, Speech
Sex Discrimination

Submission to Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women – Information for List of Issues on Australia (2017)

Australia’s record on gender equality is mixed. Despite very high attainment in education, Australia’s overall position on the Global Gender Gap Index is comparatively low at 46th. Economic participation and opportunity is one of the areas where Australia lags most significantly - it is 42nd on the World Economic Forum’s global gender gap index.

Category, Submission
Sex Discrimination

Effective access to services: What does it mean for sexual assault?

Let me also acknowledge that we are meeting on the traditional land of Ngunnawal people. I pay my respects to their elders past and present, and all the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men and women who have worked so committedly to eliminating sexual assault.

Category, Speech