Law Reform

The Women's Law Centre is committed to advocating for social change through law and legal policy reform in the interests of women. WLC has a particular focus on achieving reform in the areas of women's equality and access to justice.

We lobby for reform of the law itself as well as reform to the administration of the law. We also undertake law reform work to resist changes to the law or legal policy that may negatively impact on women, particularly those women most disadvantaged in their access to justice.

A table of our policy and law reform projects can be viewed below:

Date
Author
Submission
13.10.2009 DVLWN Submission to PM endorsing Recommendation 18 of NHRC Report to enact a Federal human rights legislation
July 2009 YWCA & WLSA NGO Report on the Implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in Australia 
13.07.09 WLSA Submission to the Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee's Access to Justice Inquiry
20.03.2009 DVLWN Submission to Expenditure Review Committee regarding an adequate budget for a NPoA to Reduce Violence against Women and Children
29.05.2009 DVLWN  Submission to National Human Rights Consultation in Recommendation of Federal Human Rights Legislation
31.10.2008 WLC Submission to the EOC Inquiry into Discrimination in the Private Rental Market
31.07.2008 DVLWN Submission to the National Council's National Plan of Action Consultation
21.03.2008 DVLWN Submission to the EOC Inquiry into Discrimination in the Private Rental Market

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