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Australia Doesn’t Need New Hate Speech Laws

January 19, 2026

By Stephanie Bastiaan 

In Case You Missed It: Summer Headlines

January 15, 2026

The team at Women’s Forum Australia hope our supporters had a restful break and a fantastic start to 2026.

Women's Forum Australia welcomes action in Queensland and Northern Territory to protect children from harmful medical gender interventions

December 21, 2025

MEDIA RELEASE Women’s Forum Australia welcomes the Queensland Government’s decision to extend its ban on puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones...

The Case Against Decriminalising Prostitution in South Australia

December 19, 2025

By Stephanie Bastiaan  A renewed push to decriminalise prostitution in South Australia is underway after the Legislative Council voted in...
Transgender / Sports / NSW / sex-based rights / vilification / Kirralie Smith /

The case of Kirralie Smith and how NSW’s anti-vilification laws are being weaponised against women

December 10, 2025

By Stephanie Bastiaan and Rachael Wong A New South Wales Court has made a finding that public discourse can amount...
Surrogacy / Health / Exploitation /

Review of surrogacy laws by Australian Law Reform Commission: WFA Submission

August 13, 2025

The Australian Law Reform Commission has been tasked with conducting "a review of Australian surrogacy laws, policies and practices to...
Transgender / gender ideology / sall grover / sex-based rights / discrimination / Tickle v Giggle / Giggle v Tickle /

Giggle v Tickle: The Appeal

August 04, 2025

By Stephanie Bastiaan
Transgender / gender ideology / sall grover / sex-based rights / discrimination / Tickle v Giggle /

Recap: Tickle v Giggle and the erasure of women’s sex-based rights

August 01, 2025

Next week, Giggle CEO Sall Grover will head to the Full Federal Court in Sydney for round two of what...
Pornography / Childcare / sexual abuse /

Institutionalised childcare is failing children; it’s time parents had more choice

July 29, 2025

By Stephanie Bastiaan
Transgender / sex-based rights / prisons /

Is the NSW Government trying to whitewash its policy on housing men in women’s prisons?

July 10, 2025

By Rachael Wong Is the NSW Government trying to cover up – or at least minimise or deflect from –...
Pornography / Age Verification /

Welcome developments on protecting kids from online porn in the US and Australia

July 04, 2025

The past couple of weeks have seen some excellent developments on the issue of age verification for online pornography in...
gender ideology / free speech /

Billboard Chris and X win major free speech case against Australian eSafety Commissioner

July 02, 2025

By Rachael Wong Yesterday, the Administrative Review Tribunal handed down a major decision striking a blow against Australia’s increasingly censorious...