The Ednas 2023

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Save the date! Join us for the Edna Ryan Awards 2023!

The Edna Ryan Awards 2023 will be held online this year on Thursday, 16th November. Please save the date and nominate a woman making a feminist difference in NSW or the ACT.

The Edna Ryan Awards celebrate women who contribute to improving the lives of womEn and girls

Women who persist, strive, advocate and fight to make a feminist difference. 

Women who are often unsung and unrecognised.

The Edna Ryan Awards are named in honour of a woman who fought valiantly for equal pay and equal rights for women.

The fight continues and so do these awards. 

Nominations are now open

Nominations close July 31, 2023

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“I felt from the youngest possible age that it was unfair, intolerable really, that females were regarded as second-class citizens. That was going to be the big thing that I wanted to change.”
Susan Ryan

Former Labor Senator, Minister and Age Discrimination Commissioner

Only when a society values distributive justice and multi-vocality, will the voices of its entire people be free. Only then will it be safe for each of us to add our narrative to the dominant social and political discourse. Only then will our country be equipped to engage in a fair and diverse feminist debate which has the potential to empower all.

Saba Vasefi

Journalist, academic, poet and filmmaker

“I have always known that as a woman I would need to work harder than my male counterparts to be seen as an equal, and I have made it my life’s work to do just that. It is important that we show the future generations of women that we can forge success in the face of oppression and sexism. We need to always remember that we are valuable, powerful, and we should never doubt ourselves.”

Erin Wen Ai Chew
Entrepeneur, social activist, founder of the Asian Australian Alliance 

2022 AWARd recipients

On Friday the 18th of November 2022, 17 Edna Ryan Awards were presented across 6 categories for women making a feminist difference across NSW and the ACT. Read more ›

Chanel Contos | Grand Stirrer

Chanel Contos | Grand Stirrer

Chanel Contos is an Australian student and sexual consent activist. She became known globally in 2021, following the responses to her request for young Australian women to report on their sexual assault experiences.

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Malaika Mfula | For Making a Feminist Difference in Leadership

Malaika Mfula | For Making a Feminist Difference in Leadership

Malaika Mfula, alongside Rizina Yadav, cofounded  ‘Her Future Her Decade’ a social impact organisation that aims to support and empower young women during the critical decade of 18 to 28 years old when young women make decisions that alter their career advancement, economic security, and happiness.

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Rizina Yadav | For Making a Feminist Difference in Leadership

Rizina Yadav | For Making a Feminist Difference in Leadership

Rizina Yadav, alongside Malaika Mfula, cofounded  ‘Her Future Her Decade’ a social impact organisation that aims to support and empower young women during the critical decade of 18 to 28 years old when young women make decisions that alter their career advancement, economic security, and happiness.

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Past AWARd recipients

“Pinch me, it’s a miracle handed out on my birthday. It could have been decided years and years ago. We’d given up hope, and now, bang, here it is in writing,”

Edna Ryan, aged 68, writing in her diary after the National Wage Case decision in 1972 that gave one and a half million women equal pay with men.

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