Australian Feminists for Women’s Rights
@ozwimmsrights.bsky.social
We are women of the Left who BRAVE THE STORM. We stand for women’s sex-based rights. www.af4wr.org.au
From The Australian this weekend. The video accompanying the article is particularly worth a watch.
Archived article available here: archive.md/kyPZF
Archived article available here: archive.md/kyPZF
November 8, 2025 at 2:35 PM
From The Australian this weekend. The video accompanying the article is particularly worth a watch.
Archived article available here: archive.md/kyPZF
Archived article available here: archive.md/kyPZF
‘The world’ is also here. Supposedly peaceful countries like Australia are responsible for exporting weapons to belligerents in wars and those who arm them. This recent report shows the Australian arms export trade is particularly opaque. www.quakersaustralia.org.au/wp-content/u...
November 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
‘The world’ is also here. Supposedly peaceful countries like Australia are responsible for exporting weapons to belligerents in wars and those who arm them. This recent report shows the Australian arms export trade is particularly opaque. www.quakersaustralia.org.au/wp-content/u...
News from the UK. A teeny step in the right direction? or a move that will end up reinforcing the idea that some pornography is ‘acceptable’? (if it isn’t snuff or gonzo, if it doesn’t have choking….). In any case it’s a step better than Oz! www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Pornography depicting strangulation to become criminal offence in the UK
Legal requirement to be placed on tech platforms to prevent users from seeing such ‘choking’ material
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM
News from the UK. A teeny step in the right direction? or a move that will end up reinforcing the idea that some pornography is ‘acceptable’? (if it isn’t snuff or gonzo, if it doesn’t have choking….). In any case it’s a step better than Oz! www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
‘[Displays span]…the beautiful, the menacing and the extremely cool.’ Richard Marles, speaking at the Indo Pacific International Maritime Exposition in Sydney, 4 November.
Yet, Australia’s growing arms industry lacks transparency.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/08....
Sure, Richard. Really cool.
Yet, Australia’s growing arms industry lacks transparency.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/08....
Sure, Richard. Really cool.
Joint Statement: Civil Society Calls for Accountability in Australia’s Military Trade
Australia’s military trade is not transparent. Policy experts describe defence export systems as “at best opaque and at worst negligently poor." Australia has a legal and ethical obligation to ensure ...
www.hrw.org
November 4, 2025 at 9:42 AM
‘[Displays span]…the beautiful, the menacing and the extremely cool.’ Richard Marles, speaking at the Indo Pacific International Maritime Exposition in Sydney, 4 November.
Yet, Australia’s growing arms industry lacks transparency.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/08....
Sure, Richard. Really cool.
Yet, Australia’s growing arms industry lacks transparency.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/08....
Sure, Richard. Really cool.
« A crisis of apathy ». This is how one senior UN official characterises the world’s attitude to the war in Sudan.
www.unwomen.org/en/news-stor...
Women and children have as always been particular targets, as last week’s attack by the Rapid Support Forces on el-Fasher maternity hospital shows.
www.unwomen.org/en/news-stor...
Women and children have as always been particular targets, as last week’s attack by the Rapid Support Forces on el-Fasher maternity hospital shows.
Statement: UN Women calls for urgent protection of women and girls in El Fasher, Sudan | UN Women – Headquarters
UN Women expresses deep alarm and condemns, in the strongest possible terms, the ongoing attacks against women, girls, and civilians in and around El Fasher.
www.unwomen.org
November 3, 2025 at 3:14 PM
« A crisis of apathy ». This is how one senior UN official characterises the world’s attitude to the war in Sudan.
www.unwomen.org/en/news-stor...
Women and children have as always been particular targets, as last week’s attack by the Rapid Support Forces on el-Fasher maternity hospital shows.
www.unwomen.org/en/news-stor...
Women and children have as always been particular targets, as last week’s attack by the Rapid Support Forces on el-Fasher maternity hospital shows.
Congratulations @labwomendec.bsky.social on your amazing stall and fringe event at the recent UK Labour Party Conference. We in Australia on the left look up to you that you can do this!
🌹Always a pleasure to welcome Minister of State for Health Karin Smyth to our #Lab25 conference stall🌹
#LWDLiverpool25
#LWDLiverpool25
October 5, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Congratulations @labwomendec.bsky.social on your amazing stall and fringe event at the recent UK Labour Party Conference. We in Australia on the left look up to you that you can do this!
AF4WR have written to the Qld Minister for Health, Tim Nicholls, re Jillian Spencer’s case. Spencer was suspended then sacked from her job as child psychiatrist at Qld Children’s Hospital after raising objections to the so-called ‘gender affirmation’ model used in treatment of minors.
af4wr.org
September 18, 2025 at 10:10 AM
AF4WR have written to the Qld Minister for Health, Tim Nicholls, re Jillian Spencer’s case. Spencer was suspended then sacked from her job as child psychiatrist at Qld Children’s Hospital after raising objections to the so-called ‘gender affirmation’ model used in treatment of minors.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre.... In the social media brouhaha about Charlie Kirk, the Epstein files have been all but forgotten. But if we are to grieve for anyone this week, let us grieve for the hundreds of women and girls who were trafficked and abused by Epstein.
Jeffrey Epstein’s birthday book is a horrifying document | Moira Donegan
Conspiracy theorists wonder about what Epstein and his powerful friends may have done to cover up his crimes. But they barely were covered up
www.theguardian.com
September 17, 2025 at 7:10 AM
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre.... In the social media brouhaha about Charlie Kirk, the Epstein files have been all but forgotten. But if we are to grieve for anyone this week, let us grieve for the hundreds of women and girls who were trafficked and abused by Epstein.
Minister for Women: Who are your real stakeholders?
Minister Katy Gallagher, are you aware you appear to be captured by forces opposed to feminism who are destroying women's rights?
See letter to the Minister at bottom of this linked post.
##restorewomensrights
womensadvocacy.net/2025/09/03/m...
Minister Katy Gallagher, are you aware you appear to be captured by forces opposed to feminism who are destroying women's rights?
See letter to the Minister at bottom of this linked post.
##restorewomensrights
womensadvocacy.net/2025/09/03/m...
Minister for Women: Who are the real stakeholders?
The Minister for Women, Senator Katy Gallagher, has referenced the range of stakeholders she engages with on a day-to-day basis when shaping policy that affects women’s health, safety, privacy, and…
womensadvocacy.net
September 3, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Minister for Women: Who are your real stakeholders?
Minister Katy Gallagher, are you aware you appear to be captured by forces opposed to feminism who are destroying women's rights?
See letter to the Minister at bottom of this linked post.
##restorewomensrights
womensadvocacy.net/2025/09/03/m...
Minister Katy Gallagher, are you aware you appear to be captured by forces opposed to feminism who are destroying women's rights?
See letter to the Minister at bottom of this linked post.
##restorewomensrights
womensadvocacy.net/2025/09/03/m...
We have many questions. How was this allowed to happen?
Where is the condemnation of these neo nazis by our political leaders who previously defamed us women at the Let Women Speak rally in 2023 by confusing us for the neo nazis?
Where is the condemnation of these neo nazis by our political leaders who previously defamed us women at the Let Women Speak rally in 2023 by confusing us for the neo nazis?
September 1, 2025 at 11:13 AM
We have many questions. How was this allowed to happen?
Where is the condemnation of these neo nazis by our political leaders who previously defamed us women at the Let Women Speak rally in 2023 by confusing us for the neo nazis?
Where is the condemnation of these neo nazis by our political leaders who previously defamed us women at the Let Women Speak rally in 2023 by confusing us for the neo nazis?
Thank you for your national leadership Senator Malarndirri McCarthy.
September 1, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Thank you for your national leadership Senator Malarndirri McCarthy.
Our political representatives and activist groups continue to use the scare tactic of heightened suicide risk among transgender-identified youth. But here's the thing. *The risk is not borne out by the evidence*.
See for example: segm.org/Suicide-Gend...
See for example: segm.org/Suicide-Gend...
August 15, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Our political representatives and activist groups continue to use the scare tactic of heightened suicide risk among transgender-identified youth. But here's the thing. *The risk is not borne out by the evidence*.
See for example: segm.org/Suicide-Gend...
See for example: segm.org/Suicide-Gend...
Well, the SMH/Age have woken up a week late: finally reporting on the Giggle v. Tickle appeal with the headline “case centred on what a ‘woman’ means”. archive.md/L4pie
archive.md
August 14, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Well, the SMH/Age have woken up a week late: finally reporting on the Giggle v. Tickle appeal with the headline “case centred on what a ‘woman’ means”. archive.md/L4pie
We need to #restorewomensrights.
This week's #gigglevtickle appeal in the Federal Court has again shown that Human Rights Commission is interpreting our SDA to give precedence to males who claim to have a gender identity over the sex-based rights, safety and dignity of women. #auspol
This week's #gigglevtickle appeal in the Federal Court has again shown that Human Rights Commission is interpreting our SDA to give precedence to males who claim to have a gender identity over the sex-based rights, safety and dignity of women. #auspol
August 7, 2025 at 11:07 PM
We need to #restorewomensrights.
This week's #gigglevtickle appeal in the Federal Court has again shown that Human Rights Commission is interpreting our SDA to give precedence to males who claim to have a gender identity over the sex-based rights, safety and dignity of women. #auspol
This week's #gigglevtickle appeal in the Federal Court has again shown that Human Rights Commission is interpreting our SDA to give precedence to males who claim to have a gender identity over the sex-based rights, safety and dignity of women. #auspol
The legal 'idea' that discrimination law can be constructed to coerce us all to 'see' some males as girls and women has serious unintended consequences for girls and women's participation.
Why was Parliament's intention hijacked like this? And, who will fix it?
archive.is/2025.08.06-1...
Why was Parliament's intention hijacked like this? And, who will fix it?
archive.is/2025.08.06-1...
August 6, 2025 at 11:18 PM
The legal 'idea' that discrimination law can be constructed to coerce us all to 'see' some males as girls and women has serious unintended consequences for girls and women's participation.
Why was Parliament's intention hijacked like this? And, who will fix it?
archive.is/2025.08.06-1...
Why was Parliament's intention hijacked like this? And, who will fix it?
archive.is/2025.08.06-1...
The legal 'idea' that discrimination law can be constructed to coerce us all to 'see' some males as girls and women has serious unintended consequences for girls' and women's participation.
Why was Parliament's intention hijacked like this? And, who will fix it?
archive.is/2025.08.06-1...
Why was Parliament's intention hijacked like this? And, who will fix it?
archive.is/2025.08.06-1...
archive.is
August 6, 2025 at 11:07 PM
The legal 'idea' that discrimination law can be constructed to coerce us all to 'see' some males as girls and women has serious unintended consequences for girls' and women's participation.
Why was Parliament's intention hijacked like this? And, who will fix it?
archive.is/2025.08.06-1...
Why was Parliament's intention hijacked like this? And, who will fix it?
archive.is/2025.08.06-1...
Background on Tickle v Giggle case (Sall Grover’s appeal being heard by full bench of Federal Court in w/b 4 August). archive.md/nw8PA? You can also support Sall Grover’s fundraiser for her court fees here: gigglecrowdfund.com.
archive.md
July 26, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Background on Tickle v Giggle case (Sall Grover’s appeal being heard by full bench of Federal Court in w/b 4 August). archive.md/nw8PA? You can also support Sall Grover’s fundraiser for her court fees here: gigglecrowdfund.com.
This. (Those who read The Australian yesterday may recognise the photo.)
July 23, 2025 at 7:59 AM
This. (Those who read The Australian yesterday may recognise the photo.)
Unwitting or not, it is certainly a manual for doctor-assisted self-harm, and it wouldn’t be the first time in medical history we’ve seen it, particularly as concerns medical harms done to girls and women.
July 20, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Unwitting or not, it is certainly a manual for doctor-assisted self-harm, and it wouldn’t be the first time in medical history we’ve seen it, particularly as concerns medical harms done to girls and women.
“One does not make a baby like one makes a cake”: read our submission to the Australian Law Reform Commission on its review of Australian surrogacy legislation. af4wr.org/wp-content/u...
af4wr.org
July 16, 2025 at 10:14 PM
“One does not make a baby like one makes a cake”: read our submission to the Australian Law Reform Commission on its review of Australian surrogacy legislation. af4wr.org/wp-content/u...
The fireys, blue collar unions – and some male politicians – continue to live up to their reputation for overt sexism. The slogan ‘ditch the bitch’ directed at Victorian premier Jacinta Allan echoes that levelled at Julia Gillard when she was PM. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
‘Disgusting’ slogan apparently directed at Victorian premier seen at rally attended by Brad Battin and union boss
‘Ditch the bitch’ was emblazoned on a fire truck at a rally against the state’s new emergency services levy
www.theguardian.com
July 16, 2025 at 5:31 AM
The fireys, blue collar unions – and some male politicians – continue to live up to their reputation for overt sexism. The slogan ‘ditch the bitch’ directed at Victorian premier Jacinta Allan echoes that levelled at Julia Gillard when she was PM. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...