Association of Non-English Speaking Background Women of Australia (1987 - )

The Association of Non-English Speaking Background Women of Australia (ANESBWA) was established in 1987, with the aim of promoting access and equity for the culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) women of Australia.The founding members argued that women could not rely on the male heads of existing multicultural, ethnic and feminist organisations to represent their interests and that they must speak up for themselves.

As well as networking with women in state and territory Ethnic Community Councils, ANESBWA sought to link up with existing organisations that catered for women, such as social, cultural and political groups. A key feature of the organisation was that it was not ethnically aligned and was therefore in a position to cut across multicultural politics to lobby on behalf of all CALD women.

Convenor

• Mottee, Matina (1931 - )

  Matina Mottee was a founding member and inaugural convenor of the Association of Non-English Speaking Background Women of Australia

Featured Organisation

• Being Seen And Heard: Migrant Women Organising In Australia, A Documentary History (2006 - )

Founded

• Buckland-Fuller, Dorothy (1922 - )

Related People

• Mulder, Beryl (1941 - )

  Beryl Mulder was a founding member of the Association of Non-English Speaking Background Women of Australia

  [1987 - ]

Reports

• Eliadis, Maria; Colanaro Rosetta and Roussos, Patricia, Issues for non-English speaking background women in Multicultural Australia/ Australian Office of Multicultural Affairs Policy Options Papers Series, National Agenda for a Multicultural Australia, Association of Non-English Speaking Background Women of Australia and the Office of Multicultural Affairs, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Canberra, 1988, 47 pp. [ Details... ]

See also

• Sawer, Marian, 'Double Disadvantage: Migrant and Aboriginal Women', in Sisters in Suits: Women and Public Policy in Australia, Allen and Unwin, North Sydney, 1990, pp. 107-139. [ Details... ]