Australian Feminists for Women’s Rights
@ozwimmsrights.bsky.social
We are women of the Left who BRAVE THE STORM. We stand for women’s sex-based rights. www.af4wr.org.au
Women were there, right at the beginning of the UN shaping of human rights. How many of their names do we remember now? www.un.org/sites/un2.un...
December 12, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Women were there, right at the beginning of the UN shaping of human rights. How many of their names do we remember now? www.un.org/sites/un2.un...
World tennis Number 1 Aryna Sabalenka has weighed into the debate over trans-identified males in women’s sport. Good for her! www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/d...
Aryna Sabalenka says ‘not fair on women to face basically biological men’ in tennis
Aryna Sabalenka has weighed into the participation of transgender athletes in women’s sport, saying it would be unfair for women to face ‘biological men’
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:25 AM
World tennis Number 1 Aryna Sabalenka has weighed into the debate over trans-identified males in women’s sport. Good for her! www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/d...
Today is Human Rights Day. Last year, the Oz government buried the report of its own human rights inquiry. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
The report, and our submission, had recommended a Federal Human Rights Act af4wr.org/wp-content/u.... So we still have no protection of our sex-based rights.
The report, and our submission, had recommended a Federal Human Rights Act af4wr.org/wp-content/u.... So we still have no protection of our sex-based rights.
Australia’s human rights report has been quietly buried
The world marks Human Rights Day this Wednesday 10 December. But a comprehensive parliamentary report calling for a national Human Rights Act remains unanswered. Its silence speaks volumes about the g...
johnmenadue.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Today is Human Rights Day. Last year, the Oz government buried the report of its own human rights inquiry. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
The report, and our submission, had recommended a Federal Human Rights Act af4wr.org/wp-content/u.... So we still have no protection of our sex-based rights.
The report, and our submission, had recommended a Federal Human Rights Act af4wr.org/wp-content/u.... So we still have no protection of our sex-based rights.
Another win for women in the UK. When will the Australian political class and judiciary wake up?
December 8, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Another win for women in the UK. When will the Australian political class and judiciary wake up?
This Wednesday 10 December is international Human Rights Day. See this statement by UN Women.
www.unwomen.org/en/news-stor...
(Unfortunately, this laudable statement is undermined by UN Women’s position that males with a gender identity are women.)
www.unwomen.org/en/news-stor...
(Unfortunately, this laudable statement is undermined by UN Women’s position that males with a gender identity are women.)
Statement: Human rights, our everyday essentials | UN Women – Headquarters
UN Women statement for Human Rights Day, 10 December 2025
www.unwomen.org
December 8, 2025 at 3:47 AM
This Wednesday 10 December is international Human Rights Day. See this statement by UN Women.
www.unwomen.org/en/news-stor...
(Unfortunately, this laudable statement is undermined by UN Women’s position that males with a gender identity are women.)
www.unwomen.org/en/news-stor...
(Unfortunately, this laudable statement is undermined by UN Women’s position that males with a gender identity are women.)
The 2025 US HHS Report found serious conflicts of interest driving medical bodies to suppress the 2024 UK Cass Report. It is not harmful to discuss it!! #NHMRC
December 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
The 2025 US HHS Report found serious conflicts of interest driving medical bodies to suppress the 2024 UK Cass Report. It is not harmful to discuss it!! #NHMRC
We have reached a point where identifying the sex of a person can lead to multiple legal cases and potential financial ruin.
This is why more women don't speak up.
We stand with Kirralie and every woman punished for speaking the truth.
#Gaslighting #auspol #CoerciveControl #Equality #women
This is why more women don't speak up.
We stand with Kirralie and every woman punished for speaking the truth.
#Gaslighting #auspol #CoerciveControl #Equality #women
December 5, 2025 at 1:18 PM
We have reached a point where identifying the sex of a person can lead to multiple legal cases and potential financial ruin.
This is why more women don't speak up.
We stand with Kirralie and every woman punished for speaking the truth.
#Gaslighting #auspol #CoerciveControl #Equality #women
This is why more women don't speak up.
We stand with Kirralie and every woman punished for speaking the truth.
#Gaslighting #auspol #CoerciveControl #Equality #women
Using hate crime law instead of discrimination law to protect people identifying as trans: "As far as I'm concerned you are giving people already misusing the criminal justice process which appears not to have insulated itself against this misuse giving that group of people an additional weapon."
Good to see Sarah Vine KC is @thetimes.com Lawyer of the Week. Listen here to her wit and wisdom on the government’s sex & gender policy plans at our #LWDLiverpool25 fringe meeting in Liverpool
Labour Party Conference 2025 Fringe Event: Sarah Vine KC, Doughty Street Chambers
YouTube video by Labour Women's Declaration
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December 5, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Using hate crime law instead of discrimination law to protect people identifying as trans: "As far as I'm concerned you are giving people already misusing the criminal justice process which appears not to have insulated itself against this misuse giving that group of people an additional weapon."
From The Australian this weekend. The video accompanying the article is particularly worth a watch.
Archived article available here: archive.md/kyPZF
Archived article available here: archive.md/kyPZF
November 8, 2025 at 2:35 PM
From The Australian this weekend. The video accompanying the article is particularly worth a watch.
Archived article available here: archive.md/kyPZF
Archived article available here: archive.md/kyPZF
‘The world’ is also here. Supposedly peaceful countries like Australia are responsible for exporting weapons to belligerents in wars and those who arm them. This recent report shows the Australian arms export trade is particularly opaque. www.quakersaustralia.org.au/wp-content/u...
November 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
‘The world’ is also here. Supposedly peaceful countries like Australia are responsible for exporting weapons to belligerents in wars and those who arm them. This recent report shows the Australian arms export trade is particularly opaque. www.quakersaustralia.org.au/wp-content/u...
News from the UK. A teeny step in the right direction? or a move that will end up reinforcing the idea that some pornography is ‘acceptable’? (if it isn’t snuff or gonzo, if it doesn’t have choking….). In any case it’s a step better than Oz! www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Pornography depicting strangulation to become criminal offence in the UK
Legal requirement to be placed on tech platforms to prevent users from seeing such ‘choking’ material
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM
News from the UK. A teeny step in the right direction? or a move that will end up reinforcing the idea that some pornography is ‘acceptable’? (if it isn’t snuff or gonzo, if it doesn’t have choking….). In any case it’s a step better than Oz! www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
‘[Displays span]…the beautiful, the menacing and the extremely cool.’ Richard Marles, speaking at the Indo Pacific International Maritime Exposition in Sydney, 4 November.
Yet, Australia’s growing arms industry lacks transparency.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/08....
Sure, Richard. Really cool.
Yet, Australia’s growing arms industry lacks transparency.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/08....
Sure, Richard. Really cool.
Joint Statement: Civil Society Calls for Accountability in Australia’s Military Trade
Australia’s military trade is not transparent. Policy experts describe defence export systems as “at best opaque and at worst negligently poor." Australia has a legal and ethical obligation to ensure ...
www.hrw.org
November 4, 2025 at 9:42 AM
‘[Displays span]…the beautiful, the menacing and the extremely cool.’ Richard Marles, speaking at the Indo Pacific International Maritime Exposition in Sydney, 4 November.
Yet, Australia’s growing arms industry lacks transparency.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/08....
Sure, Richard. Really cool.
Yet, Australia’s growing arms industry lacks transparency.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/08....
Sure, Richard. Really cool.
« A crisis of apathy ». This is how one senior UN official characterises the world’s attitude to the war in Sudan.
www.unwomen.org/en/news-stor...
Women and children have as always been particular targets, as last week’s attack by the Rapid Support Forces on el-Fasher maternity hospital shows.
www.unwomen.org/en/news-stor...
Women and children have as always been particular targets, as last week’s attack by the Rapid Support Forces on el-Fasher maternity hospital shows.
Statement: UN Women calls for urgent protection of women and girls in El Fasher, Sudan | UN Women – Headquarters
UN Women expresses deep alarm and condemns, in the strongest possible terms, the ongoing attacks against women, girls, and civilians in and around El Fasher.
www.unwomen.org
November 3, 2025 at 3:14 PM
« A crisis of apathy ». This is how one senior UN official characterises the world’s attitude to the war in Sudan.
www.unwomen.org/en/news-stor...
Women and children have as always been particular targets, as last week’s attack by the Rapid Support Forces on el-Fasher maternity hospital shows.
www.unwomen.org/en/news-stor...
Women and children have as always been particular targets, as last week’s attack by the Rapid Support Forces on el-Fasher maternity hospital shows.
Congratulations @labwomendec.bsky.social on your amazing stall and fringe event at the recent UK Labour Party Conference. We in Australia on the left look up to you that you can do this!
🌹Always a pleasure to welcome Minister of State for Health Karin Smyth to our #Lab25 conference stall🌹
#LWDLiverpool25
#LWDLiverpool25
October 5, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Congratulations @labwomendec.bsky.social on your amazing stall and fringe event at the recent UK Labour Party Conference. We in Australia on the left look up to you that you can do this!
AF4WR have written to the Qld Minister for Health, Tim Nicholls, re Jillian Spencer’s case. Spencer was suspended then sacked from her job as child psychiatrist at Qld Children’s Hospital after raising objections to the so-called ‘gender affirmation’ model used in treatment of minors.
af4wr.org
September 18, 2025 at 10:10 AM
AF4WR have written to the Qld Minister for Health, Tim Nicholls, re Jillian Spencer’s case. Spencer was suspended then sacked from her job as child psychiatrist at Qld Children’s Hospital after raising objections to the so-called ‘gender affirmation’ model used in treatment of minors.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre.... In the social media brouhaha about Charlie Kirk, the Epstein files have been all but forgotten. But if we are to grieve for anyone this week, let us grieve for the hundreds of women and girls who were trafficked and abused by Epstein.
Jeffrey Epstein’s birthday book is a horrifying document | Moira Donegan
Conspiracy theorists wonder about what Epstein and his powerful friends may have done to cover up his crimes. But they barely were covered up
www.theguardian.com
September 17, 2025 at 7:10 AM
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre.... In the social media brouhaha about Charlie Kirk, the Epstein files have been all but forgotten. But if we are to grieve for anyone this week, let us grieve for the hundreds of women and girls who were trafficked and abused by Epstein.
Minister for Women: Who are your real stakeholders?
Minister Katy Gallagher, are you aware you appear to be captured by forces opposed to feminism who are destroying women's rights?
See letter to the Minister at bottom of this linked post.
##restorewomensrights
womensadvocacy.net/2025/09/03/m...
Minister Katy Gallagher, are you aware you appear to be captured by forces opposed to feminism who are destroying women's rights?
See letter to the Minister at bottom of this linked post.
##restorewomensrights
womensadvocacy.net/2025/09/03/m...
Minister for Women: Who are the real stakeholders?
The Minister for Women, Senator Katy Gallagher, has referenced the range of stakeholders she engages with on a day-to-day basis when shaping policy that affects women’s health, safety, privacy, and…
womensadvocacy.net
September 3, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Minister for Women: Who are your real stakeholders?
Minister Katy Gallagher, are you aware you appear to be captured by forces opposed to feminism who are destroying women's rights?
See letter to the Minister at bottom of this linked post.
##restorewomensrights
womensadvocacy.net/2025/09/03/m...
Minister Katy Gallagher, are you aware you appear to be captured by forces opposed to feminism who are destroying women's rights?
See letter to the Minister at bottom of this linked post.
##restorewomensrights
womensadvocacy.net/2025/09/03/m...
We have many questions. How was this allowed to happen?
Where is the condemnation of these neo nazis by our political leaders who previously defamed us women at the Let Women Speak rally in 2023 by confusing us for the neo nazis?
Where is the condemnation of these neo nazis by our political leaders who previously defamed us women at the Let Women Speak rally in 2023 by confusing us for the neo nazis?
September 1, 2025 at 11:13 AM
We have many questions. How was this allowed to happen?
Where is the condemnation of these neo nazis by our political leaders who previously defamed us women at the Let Women Speak rally in 2023 by confusing us for the neo nazis?
Where is the condemnation of these neo nazis by our political leaders who previously defamed us women at the Let Women Speak rally in 2023 by confusing us for the neo nazis?
Thank you for your national leadership Senator Malarndirri McCarthy.
September 1, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Thank you for your national leadership Senator Malarndirri McCarthy.
Our political representatives and activist groups continue to use the scare tactic of heightened suicide risk among transgender-identified youth. But here's the thing. *The risk is not borne out by the evidence*.
See for example: segm.org/Suicide-Gend...
See for example: segm.org/Suicide-Gend...
August 15, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Our political representatives and activist groups continue to use the scare tactic of heightened suicide risk among transgender-identified youth. But here's the thing. *The risk is not borne out by the evidence*.
See for example: segm.org/Suicide-Gend...
See for example: segm.org/Suicide-Gend...
Well, the SMH/Age have woken up a week late: finally reporting on the Giggle v. Tickle appeal with the headline “case centred on what a ‘woman’ means”. archive.md/L4pie
archive.md
August 14, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Well, the SMH/Age have woken up a week late: finally reporting on the Giggle v. Tickle appeal with the headline “case centred on what a ‘woman’ means”. archive.md/L4pie
We need to #restorewomensrights.
This week's #gigglevtickle appeal in the Federal Court has again shown that Human Rights Commission is interpreting our SDA to give precedence to males who claim to have a gender identity over the sex-based rights, safety and dignity of women. #auspol
This week's #gigglevtickle appeal in the Federal Court has again shown that Human Rights Commission is interpreting our SDA to give precedence to males who claim to have a gender identity over the sex-based rights, safety and dignity of women. #auspol
August 7, 2025 at 11:07 PM
We need to #restorewomensrights.
This week's #gigglevtickle appeal in the Federal Court has again shown that Human Rights Commission is interpreting our SDA to give precedence to males who claim to have a gender identity over the sex-based rights, safety and dignity of women. #auspol
This week's #gigglevtickle appeal in the Federal Court has again shown that Human Rights Commission is interpreting our SDA to give precedence to males who claim to have a gender identity over the sex-based rights, safety and dignity of women. #auspol
The legal 'idea' that discrimination law can be constructed to coerce us all to 'see' some males as girls and women has serious unintended consequences for girls and women's participation.
Why was Parliament's intention hijacked like this? And, who will fix it?
archive.is/2025.08.06-1...
Why was Parliament's intention hijacked like this? And, who will fix it?
archive.is/2025.08.06-1...
August 6, 2025 at 11:18 PM
The legal 'idea' that discrimination law can be constructed to coerce us all to 'see' some males as girls and women has serious unintended consequences for girls and women's participation.
Why was Parliament's intention hijacked like this? And, who will fix it?
archive.is/2025.08.06-1...
Why was Parliament's intention hijacked like this? And, who will fix it?
archive.is/2025.08.06-1...