ACT Women's Consultative Council (1989 - 2001)

The ACT Women’s Consultative Council was established in 1989 by the then chief minister Rosemary Follett to advise the chief minister on the status of women and women’s issues. It ceased operation in 2001.

The ACT Women's Consultative Council was established in 1989 by the then chief minister Rosemary Follett. The Council was given the following terms of reference:

• to advise the Chief Minister on the status of women in the ACT;
• to develop a broad overview of women’s status in the ACT, with a particular emphasis on identifying gaps in programs or services and on advising priorities for attention, acknowledging that all programs, services and policies affect women to a greater or lesser extent;
• to provide to, and receive from women, and the organisations involved in women’s issues, information about issues of concern to women; and
• to prepare a yearly work program for approval by the first ACT Women’s Consultative Council under these terms of reference.

The following women were members of the Council:

First Women's Consultative Council, 1989-1992
Pamela Cahir (Convenor to April 1990)
Susan Bambrick (Convenor September 1990-March 1991)
Maureen Bromfield (to May 1991)
Danielle Hyndes (Convenor March 1991-May 1992)
Gillian Boyd
Kathryn Cole
Elizabeth Grant, AM
Winsome Hall
Margaret Munro
Koula Notaras
Vanda Podravac
Alison Purvis (to July 1991)
Karen Richards (to May 1991)
Julia Ryan
Margaret Timpson

Second Women’s Consultative Council, June 1992-June 1994
Julia Ryan (Convenor)
Ann Quadroy (Deputy Convenor from December 1993)
Dorothy Broom (until March 1994)
Grace Coe
Jennifer Bradley
Beverly Ch'ng
Jacklynn Draper
Jane Grace
Gwen Gray
Charlotte Palmer
Jayne Pilkinton (until February 1994)
Heather Ponting
Felicity Rafferty
Betty Searle
Lorraine Weatherall

Third Women’s Consultative Council, July 1995-June 1996
Jenny Morison (Chair)
Danielle Hyndes (Deputy Chair)
Robyne Bancroft
Paula Calcino
Margaret Carmody
Betty Craig
Elizabeth Grant, AM
Donna Holden
Ingrid McKenzie
Anne Ranson
Dennise Simpson
Jean Thomson
Lita Vidal

Fourth Women’s Consultative Council, July 1996-March 1998
Danielle Hyndes (Chair)
Elizabeth Grant, AM
Margaret Carmody
Jean Thompson
Betty Craig
Karen Sorensen
Dennise Simpson
Linda Crebbin
Ingrid McKenzie
Robyne Bancroft
Lita Vidal

August 1998-June 2000
Karen Fogarty (Chair)
Jacqueline Pearce (Deputy Chair)
Aysun Adams
Libby Bell
Myriam Bonazzi
Betty Craig
Margaret Head
Cathi Moore
Glenda Munro
Julia Nesbitt
Margery Smyth, OAM
Megan Thompson
Jean Thompson
Lulu Turner
Ann Wentworth, AM

July 2000-September 2001
membership as above, with the addition of:
Matilda House

Related Exhibitions

• Women in the making of Canberra

Related People

• Follett, Rosemary (1948 - )

  Rosemary Follett established the ACT Women's Consultative Council in 1989

See also

• Lake, Marilyn, Getting Equal: The History of Australian Feminism, Allen & Unwin, St Leonards, New South Wales, 1999, 316 pp. [ Details... ]