come to executive meetings 

The Executive meets once a month, usually in the early evening, at the WEL office.  Apart from deciding current business, members can volunteer to take on responsibility for various activities.  WEL receives invitations to many important events and these are shared among the Executive and members.  The office volunteer maintains an excellent system of keeping the executive up to date with all correspondence by regularly emailing members and Executive.  Administrative decisions are often settled by email/phone between meetings.

WEL relies totally on the work of volunteer members

Now, more than ever, WEL needs your active participation.  Whether it be as a member of the Executive or providing computer expertise, website development, assisting in the office, managing fund-raising activities, assisting the newsletter editor, representing WEL at meetings or functions, undertaking projects, providing expert advice to the Executive, writing submissions or being a member of a campaign team (WEL intervened in the recent Work and Family test case and has active teams in Industrial Relations, reproductive rights and membership action) 

With the NSW State elections being held in March 2007, and the Federal elections also sometime in 2007, it is going to be a busy year for WEL to ensure that women's issues are on the agenda.  

Get active with WEL and make a difference! 

WEL NSW Executive 2006

Thinking of becoming a member of WEL?

To apply to become a member of WEL NSW or to renew your membership please download and print the membership form, complete the details and post or fax to WEL:

Women's Electoral Lobby (NSW) Inc
66 Albion Street
Surry Hills NSW 2010
Telephone: (02) 9212 4374
Facsimile: (02) 9212 4374
Email: welnsw@comcen.com.au

Alternatively for further information please ring the WEL NSW office.

We need to make the next generations know we value the activists, the committed and the persistent, who, by putting feminism into practice and policy, create a fairer world for all by creating a more civil society.

WEL was formed in 1972 to ensure that women's rights became an issue in the Federal election campaign of that year. It achieved great success and has been active at every election since, maintaining the pressure on political parties between elections. Lobbying occurs at national, state and local government levels. WEL aims to improve women's access to decision-making bodies in order to give women input into those things that affect their lives.

WEL lobbies on and monitors issues such as the following:

• anti-discrimination legislation
• women's education, training and employment
• abortion, reproductive rights and women's right to choose
• health
• family law
• media treatment of women
• child care
• industrial relations
• violence against women
• women on Boards

What WEL offers you

WEL-Informed - the official newsletter of WEL NSW includes original and reprinted articles on issues of importance to women, announcements, reviews and information about the organisation's activities.

And the opportunity to:

• attend members meetings and functions
• develop political and lobbying skills
• have input into WEL policies and submissions
• work with a dynamic group to shape the future for Australians
• participate in WEL activities