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Australian Women
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National Council of Women of Australia (1931 - ) |
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| Function: Voluntary organisation | |||
The National Council of Women of Australia was founded in 1931, with Ivy Moss as President, to act is an umbrella organisation for the existing National Councils of Women in each state. The first of these, the National Council of Women of New South Wales, had been formed in 1896. Like all National Councils of Women, it functions as a political lobby group, attempting to influence local, state and federal governments as well as participating in international activities through its affiliation with the International Council of Women (established in 1888 at Seneca Falls in the United States of America) which has consultative status with the United Nations. The national Council grew out of the Federal Council of the National Council of Women, which had been established in 1924 ‘with the object of enhancing the power of the [state] Councils in dealing with matters of Australian concern.’ Later, Councils established in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory also affiliated with this national body. Until the 1940s at least, the Council was a major focal point for middle-class women’s activism. The current aims of NCWA are: |
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| URL: The home page for this entity is located at http://www.ncwa.org.au/ | |
| Location: Australian Women's Coalition NCWA 1st Floor 6A Thesiger Court Deakin ACT 2600 Phone: 02 6285 2337 Fax: 02 6285 2652 Email: ncwa@bigpond.com Mark Attention: AWC | |
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Additional Information: Each State and Territory has its own brnach of the National Council of Women, and these in turn have affiliated with them a number of women’s organisations with a wide diversity of aims and goals. But the common linkage is to improve the status of and conditions for women and their families in Australia. This body was preceded by the Federal Council of the National Council of Women, 1924-31 – records of which are contained in MS 7583, NLA, (http://www.nla.gov.au/ms/findaids/7583.html). | |
| Sources used to compile this entry: http://www.ncwa.org.au/ accessed 07062002 and Ada Norris, Champions of the Impossible, pp. 66-8. | |
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Published by National Foundation for Australian Women on Australian Women's Archives Project Web Site Comments, questions, corrections and additions: awap@womenaustralia.info Prepared by: Acknowledgements Updated: 4 September 2008 http://womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE0067b.htm |