2013 WOMENS GROUPS

For more information on our 2013 Inductees, please scroll down to see the list of groups recognised in this year. The inductees were identified from research conducted by Dr Elaine Dowd.  The Recognition Ceremony celebrated Women’s groups who have played an integral role in shaping Western Australia, dating back to the 1890’s.

The groups listed below have all existed in Western Australia at some stage over the last 120 years. Many of them are still very active and continue to provide an extremely valuable service to women in the community.

  • Abortion Law Repeal Association/Association for the Legal Right to Abortion (ALRA)
  • American Women’s Club of Perth (AWC)
  • Artemis
  • Association of Civilian Widows of WA Inc
  • Australian College of Midwives WA Branch (ACM)
  • Australian Local Government Women’s Association (ALGWA)
  • Beta Sigma Phi
  • Business and Professional Women Western Australia (BPW)
  • Catholic Women’s League of Western Australia (Inc)
  • Chrysalis House Women’s Refuge
  • Cine-Matrix: Women in Film and Television WA
  • Cockburn Women’s Peace Camp
  • Combined Equal Pay Committee/WA Council for Equal Pay and Opportunity
  • Community Midwifery WA
  • Country Women’s Association (CWA)
  • Domestic Violence Action Group (Geraldton)
  • Emily’s List
  • Equal Opportunity Law Reform Coalition
  • Fremantle Women’s Health Centre (FWHC)
  • Girl Guides WA
  • Graduate Women Western Australia (GWWA)/Australian Federation of University Women (AFUW) Western Australia
  • Grapevine/Perth Wimmin’s Collective
  • Gretel Club of Perth (Inc)
  • Harvest Guild
  • Incest Survivors Association (Inc.)
  • Inner Wheel Australia
  • Inside Out Project
  • Ishar Multicultural Women’s Health Centre
  • Kalgoorlie Auxiliary of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
  • Karrakatta Club
  • Kinwomen
  • Labor Women’s Association
  • Lespar Library
  • Living Child Inc.—Safe Village Births
  • Lutheran Women WA
  • Marninwarntikura Fitzroy Women’s Resource Centre
  • Mining Mums
  • Modern Women’s Club
  • Mothers’ Union Australia
  • Movement for the Ordination of Women
  • Muslim Women’s Support Centre of WA (Inc)
  • Nardine
  • National Council of Women of Western Australia (previously known as West Australian National Council of Women and Western Australian National Council of Women)
  • National Council of Jewish Women of Australia—WA section (NCJWA)
  • Nintirri Centre
  • Older Women’s Network (OWN WA)
  • Penguin Club
  • Perth Ionian Club
  • Polyhymnia Reading Group
  • Probus
  • Rape Crisis Line
  • Rural Remote Regional Women’s Network (RRR)
  • Sexual Assault Resource Centre (SARC)
  • Sibyl/University of Western Australia Student Guild Women’s Collective
  • Society of Women Writers WA
  • Soroptimist International of Western Australia
  • Starick Services Inc
  • Status of Women Committee WA—Australian Labor Party
  • Tradeswomen on the Move
  • UN Women Australia (formerly UNIFEM Australia)—Perth Chapter Young UN Women Perth Chapter
  • Union of Australian Women—WA Branch
  • V.I.E.W. Western Australia
  • West Australian Women’s Society of Fine Arts and Crafts
  • War Widows’ Guild
  • Warrawee Women’s Refuge
  • Women’s Electoral Lobby (WEL)
  • West Australian Housewives’ Association (Inc)
  • Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)
  • Women in Media
  • Women’s Information Referral Exchange (WIRE)
  • Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) of Western Australia
  • Women in Education Coalition
  • Women in Mining WA (WIMWA)
  • Women in Sailing (WIS)
  • Women in Sport Committee of the Western Australian Sports Council
  • Women in Technology WA (Inc) (WiTWA)
  • Women Lawyers of Western Australia (Inc) (WLWA)
  • Women with Disabilities WA Inc (WWDWA)
  • Women’s Action Alliance (WAA)
  • Women’s Advisory Council (WAC)
  • Women’s Broadcasting Cooperative
  • Women’s Committee of State School Teachers’ Union WA Executive
  • Women’s Committee of the Waterside Workers Federation
  • Women’s Council for Domestic and Family Violence Services (WA)/Women’s Refuge Group of WA (WRG)
  • Women’s Health and Family Services/Women’s Health Care House/Perth Women’s Centre/Women’s Health Service
  • Women’s Information Service (WIS)
  • Women’s Interest Network
  • Women in Engineering WA (WIE WA)
  • Women’s International Zionist Organisation (WIZO)
  • Women’s Liberation
  • Women’s Service Guilds
  • Women’s Studies Group
  • Yanay Yanma
  • YWCA of Perth
  • Zonta International
  • Additional Groups

For a complete list of details of the groups above, click here.

Whilst the initial research identified the 83 organisations listed, it is believed there are probably many more.