The Women's Electoral Lobby

The Women’s Electoral Lobby - WEL is an independent women’s lobby group working to protect the rights of Australian women.

Established in 1972, WEL lobbies politicians, unions, employers, educationalists, and others on behalf of women, and seeks to change social attitudes and practices which discriminate against women.

These are two of the latest issues on the WEL website

Pregnancy Counselling
Online campaign group Get Up with Reproductive Choice Australia a coalition of 20 pro-choice women's organisations, is leading a campaign by a coalition of women's groups against deceptive advertising by some pregnancy counselling services.

The issue:
Pregnancy counselling services are deceiving and misleading women because of a legal loophole that doesn’t require them to disclose their actual agenda.

So Take Action:
“All women have the knowledge and power to take control of their sexual health and reproductive choices” Children by Choice.

How? read more, write letters to the editor, contact your local MP


Budget Delivers Bribes not Services
Women need services not bribes WEL spokeswoman Eva Cox said after the Federal Budget was handed down on Tuesday.

"Women will not go back to work because of small tax cuts and a slight rise in child care rebates," she said.

"Funding and finding quality care are essential for mothers of preschool children to take up paid work and this budget does nothing to assist either of these."