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Gabrielle Journey Jones is a poet, drummer, activist, and social worker. She is a co-founder of Creative Womyn Down Under, a group that, since 2006, has encouraged women in their creativity by organising festivals and performances. She confronts the oppression of...
Marion Brown has been making a feminist difference for women for at least the past 30 years, in fact for her whole working life. She began through her work as a lawyer at The Women's Legal Resource Centre where she advised women, including Aboriginal women, on legal...
Erika Addis is one of Australia's most highly regarded cinematographers and has worked in film and television since graduating in cinematography at the Australian Film and Television School in 1979. In an area of the media still highly dominated by men, Erika has been...
For many years, Jude Finch has worked with women and families in the Blue Mountains through The Blue Mountains Women's Health Centre, and The Blackheath Area Neighbourhood Centre in areas such as mental health, children and family services, and health promotion....
Nina Angelo's Workshops, The Fabric of Our Lives give women, whether city or rural, the opportunity to tell their stories, offering a fun and safe place to explore and share life, history and community needs. Here women discover their often hidden abilities and...
Lewina Jackson is known throughout the NSW Sexual Assault sector for her outstanding contribution. Based at the Eastern and Central Sexual Assault Counselling Service she has worked tirelessly for over fifteen years to assist survivors, going to court with clients,...
Simone is a remarkable and committed feminist activist who has devoted her personal and professional life to advocacy on behalf of some of Australia's most vulnerable women, those who live with sexual and family violence. She is a specialist counsellor at the Rape and...
In 2013 Erin Wen Ai Chew established the Asian Australian Alliance, and the following year the Asian Australian Alliance Women's Forum (AAAWF), both providing a network which has grown interstate. The Women's Forum is currently conducting a survey to identify the...
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,...
Older Women’s Network NSW
8-10 Victoria Street,
Newtown NSW 2042, Australia.
+61 – 2 – 9519 8044
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.
