Submissions

This section provides a brief description of submissions made by 2020women and other women's organisations to Australian Government reviews and inquiries on women's issues.  You can download the submissions you are interested in reading by clicking on the title.

November 2009

Submission to the Advisory Group on the Reform of Australian Government Administration

Headed by the Secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Mr Terry Moran AO, this Advisory Group has been given the task of delivering a plan to reform Australian Government Administration by early 2010.  Individuals and organisations were invited to make submissions to comment on any matters they believe are relevant to the work of the Advisory Group.  The 2020women response focuses on building a public service that takes better account of women's needs.

Submission to the Department of Health on a National Women's Health Policy for Australia

In 2007 the Australian Government made an election commitment to develop a National Women's Health Policy. The Policy will recognise gender as a basic determinant of health, which gives rise to different health outcomes and different needs for women and men.

In line with international developments and the Government's social inclusion agenda, the National Women's Health Policy will emphasise prevention, health inequalities in our society, and the social determinants of those health inequalities.

As part of the consultation process, 2020women made a submission supporting the submissions prepared by WomenSpeak and the Australian Women's Health Network.

Submission to the Australian NGO Beijing +15 Review

In 1995 the Fourth World Conference on Women was held by the United Nations in Beijing.  Attended by 39,000 women from 150 countries, the Beijing Conference developed the Beijing Platform for Action, an agreement that identified the actions to be taken by governments, the UN and by women's groups, to make women's human rights a reality.  Every five years, this document is reviewed by the UN, and governments, including the Australian government, seek the views of its citizens on progress against the Platform for Action to feed into a country analysis.

The 2020women submission provides comment on each of the actions agreed under the Beijing Platform for Action.

October 2009

Submission to the Review of the Equal Opportunity for Women Act 1986 

This Act aims to encourage organisations to identify the problems and remove barriers faced by women in employment.  It covers organisations with 100 or more employees and higher education institutions.  The submission is based on one of our surveys, with the attachment to the survey providing the full survey report.