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Law Reform and Advocacy

Our goal is access to a just legal system for all women in NSW.

Applying a feminist framework, our law reform work gives voice to women, advances women’s safety and economic independence, challenges gender-bias, racism and intersectional injustice, and holds decision makers, systems and structures accountable.

All women are entitled to a society that respects and upholds their human rights.  

Campaigns

Recent Submissions

Submission on the National Plan to End Violence against Women and Children

6 June 2026 | Open PDF

We call for the Second Action Plan to prioritise the needs of First Nations women, to embed measurable targets and accountability mechanisms, and to include meaningful legal system reform. We advocate for reform in relation to each of our priority campaign areas.

Response to the Wage Theft Framework Inquiry

6 June 2026 | Open PDF

We make recommendations about how stronger enforcement and the development of accessible pathways to entitlement recovery could improve access to justice for our clients.

Response to the Inquiry into racism, hate and violence directed at Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

8 May 2026 | Open PDF

We call for accountability and the immediate implementation of First Nations led solutions to dismantling structural racism

Response to the Preventing Perpetrators from Accessing Victims’ Super Death Benefits Consultation paper

15 April 2026 | Open PDF

We called for reforms that would give superannuation funds discretion to prevent perpetrators of domestic and family violence from accessing the death benefit of their victim.   

Response to the Closing Loopholes Review

3 March 2026 | Open PDF

We welcomed the review as an opportunity to address the unintended consequences of the new laws that prevent women from accessing entitlements including paid domestic and family violence leave, flexible working conditions and the right to disconnect. 

Submission to the Inquiry into the Operation and Adequacy of the National Employment Standards

27 February 2026 | Open PDF

We advocated for increaseprotections for working women and a more inclusive and gender equitable safety net of employment rights.

Submission to the Sexual Consent Reforms Review

17 December 2025 | Open PDF

We called for an evaluation of how the ‘affirmative consent’ reforms are operating in practicand implementation of measures to protect the rights and dignity of victim-survivors during the criminal process.

Submission to the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (Cth) Review

14 November 2025 | Open PDF

Wmade a submission to the Attorney-General’s Department on the Review of the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (Cth). We advocated for updated protections and better systems to prevent discrimination towards people with disabilities. 

Submission to the Review of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1997 (NSW)

12 September 2025 | Open PDF

We advocated for stronger and modernised anti-discrimination protections for women in NSW. 

Second submission to NSW Treasury on the Workers Compensation Amendment Bill 2025

25 July 2025 | Open PDF

We raised additional concerns about how the proposed changes might inadvertently roll back efforts to prevent sexual harassment and violence in the workplace. 

First submission to NSW Treasury on the Workers Compensation Amendment Bill 2025

14 May 2025 | Open PDF

We explained how the proposed changes to claims for psychological injury in the workplace would disproportionately impact working women.

Submission on improving Order 6 in Apprehended Domestic Violence Orders

20 March 2025 | Open PDF

We made a submission to the Department of Communities and Justice, calling for legislative improvements and greater consideration of coercive control in ADVO processes.

Submission to the Australian Law Reform Commission’s Justice Reponses to Sexual Violence Issues Paper

14 June 2024 | Open PDF

We advocated for a series of reforms to improve the criminal legal response to victim-survivors of sexual violence. 

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