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Throughout her professional and voluntary career Jozefa Sobski has vigorously and effectively pioneered the elimination of sex discrimination in the national education system, and led feminist campaigns in education and social policy. Brought up in a migrant hostel,...
Jan Breckenridge has spent her long career concerned with the effects of domestic violence and sexual assault on women and children. Her approach has been via research, in academia, books and publications, and teaching and training. In 1992 she co-authored a book on...
In her work life over the last 35 years Jane Davidson has been passionately committed to empowering women and children against all forms of violence. In the 1970s she founded the Women’s School of Self Defence, giving confidence and self defence skills to hundreds of...
This award was accepted by Vicki Harding who was instrumental in establishing The Women's Library The Women’s Library opened its doors in 1994 and is currently located in Brown St Newtown behind Newtown Public Library. The library is an unfunded organisation,...
Heidi Zajac is the founder and director of Cooking Circles, a model that brings women together to share culture, stories, recipes and food, thus promoting relationships between women from different backgrounds. Heidi devloped the Cooking Circles model from her YWCA...
Darriea Turley leads in promoting the role of women in local government and the well-being of women in rural Australia. Born in Broken Hill, grand-daughter of a cameleer, Darriea served as City Councillor for many years, as Deputy Mayor and, since September 2016,...
Through their project, WomenCanPlay, Billi McCarthy-Price and Hannah Massingham aim to connect and empower women through sport. Set up with a small grant, this project is easy to use, web-based, and non-proft, providing women with information on how to get involved....
For 20 years, Julie Perkins has been the Regional Manager of the NSW/ACT Aboriginal Legal Service's northern zone. She has worked tirelessly to establish local regional services for Aboriginal women, run by Aboriginal women, and has demonstrated the success of this...
In 2015, Monica Davidson's thesis, Climbing the Celluloid Ladder, raised the issue of gender equality in the flm and television industry, which had been dormant for years. Many in the industry believed the issue had been dealt with in the 70s, 80s and 90s, and no...
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We acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which we work and live, and we pay our respects to Elders past and present.
We acknowledge the sorrow of the Stolen Generations and the impacts of colonisation on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Edna Ryan Awards supports the Uluru Statement from the Heart, the call for a First Nation's Voice enshrined in the Australian Constitution and a Makarrata Commission to oversee agreement-making and truth-telling.
