Women's Electoral Lobby (WEL) has been a constant and prominent voice for advocating gender equality and justice for women over five decades. We develop policy priorities and undertake campaigns to eliminate barriers that hold women back from a life of dignity, safety and independence.
WEL is committed to being an effective and representative voice for women. As a national organisation, we are well placed to continue the urgent push for rapid reform on issues such as childcare, domestic and family violence and sexual assault, pay equity, health and reproductive rights, housing and homelessness, a gender lens on climate action, and women’s access to leadership in the political, public and private sectors.
We are building our focus and resources in the national organisation to strengthen WEL as a nationally representative women's advocacy organisation, with the flexibility and capacity to advocate for women at both national and state levels.
WEL's End Of Financial Year Appeal 2025-6
Women pay the price for inequality. We cannot afford to go backwards.
We know that the rights and protections women fought hard to achieve can still be weakened, delayed or undone.
We are seeing this right now through attempts in NSW, South Australia and Queensland to wind back abortion and reproductive rights protections.
Unanticipated and escalating changes in political and voting alignments threaten to fracture Australia’s broad consensus on measures to achieve women’s equality.
Your support helps ensure women's voices continue to shape Australia's future for our equality.
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WEL provides tax deductibility through our sister organisation, the National Foundation for Australian Women’s portal - https://nfaw.org/preferred-donors/#wel
WEL’s 2025 Federal Election Policy Platform outlines the changes we believe
are critical for achieving gender equality in Australia.
Making Women Count
WEL is proudly reformist and always ambitious. Through passion, determination and strategic thinking, we have won many significant policy changes and law reforms to make life better for women everywhere. We are not for profit, non party political and independent. We are able to continue our work and campaigns for equality thanks to the generosity of people like you, our members and supporters.
Learn more about how WEL has been making women count over the past 50+ years in this short film.
Solidarity with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices
WEL continues to walk with Aboriginal people into a future where all people’s human rights are protected and racial, cultural, social, economic and educational equality is secure.
WEL recognises and acknowledges the profound injustices experienced by Indigenous Australians from invasion and colonisation and which continue today. Truth-telling means that we identify the full extent of these injustices and listen to Aboriginal people to understand their ongoing impact on the lives of Indigenous Australians.
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WEL acknowledges and pays respect to the Traditional Owners and Elders past and present across Australia, with particular acknowledgement to the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. It is upon their ancestral lands that the WEL Australia office is located.
