National Labor Women’s Conference 2002
Women Setting the Agenda
Held 27-28 April 2002, Canberra, Australia
Celebrating 100 years of women’s suffrage &
40 years of Aboriginal women's suffrage
Conference outcomes
Resolutions
The Conference resolutions are sent to relevant Party forums for input to rule and policy debates. The resolutions do not constitute official party policy. They represent the views of more than 300 Labor women, including more than 50 past and present members of Australian Parliaments, and women members from all parts of the party and the country, who attended the Conference in Canberra 2002. Conference delegates will work to bring the resolutions into official policy and rules.
A. Party Policies text
B. Party Structures and Targets text
Speeches
Dr Maj Britt Theorin, Member, Parliament of the European Union, European Women and Powertext
Professor Margaret Wilson, Attorney-General and Minister for Labour, New Zealand, The New Zealand Experience, Rebuilding and Social Development. text
Associate Professor Carol Johnson, the University of Adelaide, Gender Politics and Public Policytext
Professor Marian Sawer, the Australian National University, A Perspective on Women’s suffrage in Australiatext
The Hon Carmen Lawrence MP, Women's Working Lives text
Ms Jenny Macklin, MP, the Policy Review and Challenges text
The Hon Simon Crean MP, Labor - Working for Women text
Acknowledgements
Conference run by the ACT ALP Status of Women Policy Committee
Conference Co-ordinator - Karen E Mow
Conference Management Team - Elizabeth Boyle, Jenny Ransley, Eleanor Bates, Meg Martin, Rosemary Webb, Melissa Fairhall, Susan McCarthy, Arwen Mow-Lowry, Sandy Pitcher, Jacqui Bear, Helen Cooney, Amy Haddad, Melanie Wedgwood, Eva Cawthorne, Erica Lewis
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