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8 Oct
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October 2026 Feminist Hall Tour

For over 150 years, women have been organising in Victoria's Trades...
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10 Sep
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September 2026 Feminist Hall Tour

For over 150 years, women have been organising in Victoria's Trades...
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12 Nov
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November 2026 Feminist Hall Tour

For over 150 years, women have been organising in Victoria's Trades...
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13 Aug
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August 2026 Feminist Hall Tour

For over 150 years, women have been organising in Victoria's Trades...
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9 Jul
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July 2026 Feminist Hall Tour

For over 150 years, women have been organising in Victoria's Trades...
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11 Jun
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June 2026 Feminist Hall Tour

For over 150 years, women have been organising in Victoria's Trades...
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14 May
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May 2026 Feminist Hall Tour

For over 150 years, women have been organising in Victoria's Trades...
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9 Apr
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April 2026 Feminist Hall Tour

For over 150 years, women have been organising in Victoria's Trades...
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12 Mar
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March 2026 Feminist Hall Tour

For over 150 years, women have been organising in Victoria's Trades...
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Fri
6 Mar
9am -
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International Working Women's Day 2026 Statewide Union Training Day and Rally

International Working Women’s Day is a day for working women to...
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What is Equal Pay Day?

August 19, 2025

On 19 August 2025, Australia marks Equal Pay Day, recognising that...
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Record win for worker in sexual harassment case

August 12, 2025

A young migrant worker employed casually as a supervisor at a...
FV | GV | Pay Gap | Women
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Fighting for Safer Venues

July 09, 2025

Why safe hospitality venues is a gendered issue  - what is...
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Dear comrade: My boss won't act to stop online harassment

July 03, 2025

I am the health and safety rep at a medical clinic,...
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Male-Dominated Industries

Promoting the benefits of gender equality in gender segregated, historically male...
Women
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Hospo: A High-Risk Industry

We’re working with workers and venues in the hospitality sector to...
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4 big wins for working women this new financial year

June 27, 2025

The end of the financial year isn’t just about taxes and...
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Gender Segregation: When social expectations block women from whole industries and careers

June 23, 2025

When we think of “segregation,” what often comes to mind are...
Women | FV | GV | Pay Gap
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Workplaces for Women Resources

Resources to help you create safe, respectful anf equal workplaces.
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Reproductive Health for Every Body

We are calling on the government to amend the National Employment...
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Union Women Win!

April 14, 2025

Women in union have recently won huge improvements to our rights...
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That's a wrap on WRAW Fest 2025!

April 08, 2025

Over the past six weeks we've been celebrating collective action and...
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It's for Every Body

Win paid reproductive leave and flexibility entitlements for all workers.
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Employer gender pay gap data just dropped, and there's a lot to unpack.

March 04, 2025

Let's organise to end the pay gap!
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Stopping Work-Related Gender-Based Violence 

November 14, 2024

Work-related gender-based violence is a serious health and safety risk that can...
16 Days | Women | OHS | how to be an activist
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Right to Family and Domestic Violence Leave

November 14, 2024

A union won entitlement that saves lives – but how well...
16 Days | Women | OHS | Industrial | how to be an activist | Auspol
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Winning  Gender Equal Workplaces

November 14, 2024

Unionists have driven real changes to advance gender equality at work,...
how to be an activist | 16 Days | Women
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Stopping Sexual Harassment – The Positive Duty

November 14, 2024

Due to the efforts of workers in union, workers in Australia now...
16 Days | Women | how to be an activist | OHS
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Creating Safe, Well Organised Workplaces 

November 14, 2024

Unionised workplaces with active union members and structures are safer workplaces.  This...
how to be an activist | 16 Days | Women
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Reproductive health – a workplace issue!

October 10, 2024

When it comes to managing our reproductive health and work, we...
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What we told the Victorian government about NDAs

September 24, 2024

Last month the Victorian government announced a formal consultation process about...
Women | OHS
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Ending Sexual Harassment in Hospo

September 18, 2024

Every worker deserves to be safe at work. We’re sick and...
Women | OHS
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Victoria commits to nation-leading laws to restrict the use of NDAs

August 12, 2024

Victorian Government commits to nation-leading laws to restrict the use of...
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Victoria commits to nation-leading laws to restrict the use of NDAs

August 12, 2024

Victorian Government commits to nation-leading laws to restrict the use of...
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Country Road is telling its workers to stop talking about sexual harassment and bullying.

June 05, 2024

Workers at Country Road tried for months to get the company...
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Gendered violence response team

We make noise, get media, and shame companies into taking worker...
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Call for employers to act on workplace sexual harassment

April 30, 2024

New Research Reveals Alarming Levels of Workplace Harassment: Urgent Call for...
Women | OHS
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Demand more from corporate Australia on International Womens Day

March 05, 2024

If you want Corporate Australia to get serious about ending gender...
Women
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Feminism at the Hall

December 22, 2023

In November as part of the #16Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence,...
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End NDAs Activist Network Organising

December 22, 2023

The NDA Activist Network volunteers meet monthly to plan actions for...
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Women's Rights at Work Conference 2023

December 22, 2023

In August 125 union women gathered in Solidarity Hall for a...
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Women Onsite

December 21, 2023

Women Onsite is a VTHC project that works directly with women...
Women | Training
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First prosecution for Gendered Violence as OHS issue

December 21, 2023

In November the boss of two coffee shops in hospital settings...
Women | Industrial | GV
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NDAs Video

Every worker should have the freedom to speak to their workmates...
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Ending the misuse of Non-Disclosure Agreements

June 22, 2023

Rather than dealing with #sexualharassment and #GV in workplaces, Australian businesses...
Women | Industrial | SpringSt
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Multi-employer bargaining in ECE!

June 07, 2023

The United Workers Union, Australian Education Union and Independent Education Union...
Industrial | equal pay | Women
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Statue of iconic equal pay protest to be unveiled

May 29, 2023

A bronze statue depicting an iconic act of protest will be...
zelda | Women | equal pay | History | Arts Events
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Zelda monument update

May 05, 2023

Ground has broken outside Trades Hall in preparation the statue of...
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Activist mums

May 04, 2023

Along with breakfast in bed or a bunch of flowers -...
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Run a WRAW Chat in your workplace - download the materials here!

WRAW Chats have been used since 2016 by women who want...
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A union activist in bronze

March 23, 2023

It’s a hot day, and some bastard judge in a wig...
Women | equal pay | History | Arts
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Boss charged over sexual harassment

March 23, 2023

If you sexually harass workers, you're endangering their workplace health and...
OHS | Industrial | Women
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Let Survivors Speak

March 21, 2023

Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) are commonly used in the settlement of workplace...
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Share your experience of Non-Disclosure Agreements

The use of Non-Disclosure Agreements to silence survivors of sexual harassment...
Women | GV
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End NDAs

Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), often referred to as confidentiality agreements, are used...
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No more workplace cover-ups

February 03, 2023

Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) are commonly used in the settlement of workplace...
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How union members in one workplace made history... and will save lives

February 02, 2023

Today, paid family and domestic violence leave becomes a workplace right...
Industrial | Auspol | Women | OHS
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Get involved!

We are union women. Together we win legislative and social change,...
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Dear comrade: All we're asking for is a bin!

July 22, 2022

My friend works at a retail franchise with a lot of...
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Artist Jennifer Mann selected to create Zelda D’Aprano statue “Chain Reaction”

May 31, 2022

“Chain Reaction”, a figurative sculpture proposal by artist Jennifer Mann, has...
Arts | Women
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Portrait honouring Gwen Goedecke to be unveiled at Trades Hall

May 04, 2022

A ceremony honouring Gwen Goedecke’s life-long contribution to the Victorian union...
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Women Onsite: the chippy with a PhD

March 25, 2022

"Women Onsite has changed my life. I was finishing off a...
Women | Training
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Gear for union women!

Ethically made gear for union women!
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Religious Discrimination Bill

February 11, 2022

“We launched a Pride group at our school last year. I’m...
OHS | Women | Pride
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HSR Refresher OHS Training Course - Work-related gendered violence including sexual harassment

1 Day HSR Refresher OHS Training Course focusing on Work-related gendered...
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Gendered violence at work

In this film, union members from all walks of life share...
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Training

VTHC Organiser Day: a half-day event designed to connect Union Organisers...
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Anna Stewart Memorial Project

The Anna Stewart Memorial Project supports women activists to develop the...
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Dear Comrade: Can They Really Stop Us Talking About Our Pay?

September 06, 2021

If I can’t talk about my pay at work (or outside...
Women | Pay Gap | GV | Industrial | Dear Comrade
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Gender is a Rip-Off

August 31, 2021

There is something I will take away from the gender pay...
GV | Pay Gap | womens_news | Women
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Organising For Equality in a Pandemic

August 31, 2021

“We'll win in the same way we've won everything from paid...
Women | Pay Gap | womens_news | GV | FV | Covid19
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De-Gendering the EBA: ASU Members Win at Moorabool Council

July 30, 2021

Last week Australian Services Union members at Moorabool Shire Council secured...
Industrial | Women | GV | Australian Services Union | Pay Gap | FV
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5 Ideas to Make Australia More Equal

June 21, 2021

5 ways to make Australia more equal. Workers in union have...
Women | Pay Gap | Gig | Racial Justice
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Dear Comrade: Do I Have to Take my Boss’ Fashion Advice?

June 21, 2021

My supervisor was initially dropping “hints” about my workwear, but has...
Dear Comrade | Women
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A Story About Stories We Can’t Tell

June 15, 2021

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Women | Industrial
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Making Flexibility Work For Us

June 07, 2021

“Flexibility” is one of those words that sounds so positive when...
GV | OHS | Women | Industrial | Pay Gap
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Why This Unionist Wants More Dads to Take Up Flexible Work and Parental Leave

May 31, 2021

By Myke Bartlett. Photographs: Meredith O’Shea Teacher Riley Minns at home...
Pay Gap | Industrial | AEU | Women
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A Women’s General Strike

March 22, 2021

As a union official and a feminist, rarely a week goes...
Industrial | Women
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