Past Projects

Year: 2010

Helping Prevent Family Violence in Rural Australia

Duration: 2010

This project used the enormous diversity and breadth of rural women’s networks and contacts across rural and remote Australia to help to prevent family violence. This prevention model is built on developing the community’s understanding of what family violence is and encouraging commitment to its abolition A strong focus is on increase the skills of rural young people in how to identify and develop healthy relationships.

Sustainable Communities Project

Duration: 2010

The Project:    A key project for the NRWC in  2009/10 is to identify projects and activities that have supported some communities to become thriving and successful by identifying stories and best practice examples from those communities.  We know that there are great things are happening and some communities have been able to reinvent themselves and we want to share those stories.

Year: 2009

New National Women’s Health Policy

Duration: 2009

Submission on the development of a New National Women’s Health Policy National Rural Women’s Coalition

Youth Allowance Booklet

Duration: 2009

In its 2009-10 Budget Statement the Federal Government announced major new changes to the Youth Allowance scheme, particularly concerning the eligibility criteria that applicants need to meet. These changes are of great importance to rural and regional applicants, and at the present time apply to all new applicants and will also apply to present recipients who later apply for renewal. The attached pamphlet discusses the implications, requirements and…

Year: 2008

Commission on the Status of Women – 48th session

Duration: 2008

The role of men and boys in gender equality Background The National Rural Women’s Coalition (NRWC) has consulted with women from regional, rural and remote areas of Australia to determine a general position on the Commission of the Status of Women (CSW) 2004 topic: “the role of men and boys in gender equality”.

NRWC Response to CSW53 2008

Duration: 2008

NRWC Response to CSW53 2008 with a particular focus on issues of importance to rural and remote Australian women.

Rural Health Infrastructure Report

Duration: 2008

In 2008, the National Rural Women’s Coalition conducted an online survey on health information and access to services in rural and remote areas and invited those in rural and remote Australia to participate in order to support a submission to the Federal Office for Women.Specifically, the online survey and questionnaire targeted ‘health infrastructure and access to services in rural and remote Australia, particularly focusing on maternity services and their contribution to…