Women leading united action on
climate change
Image: Courtney Allen dancing in the burnt forest
Image: Sally Blake, Water Goddess
Women’s Climate Congress
We believe that it is time for women’s leadership to help turn the tide of political culture from polarised discord to collaboration and cooperation. We propose that nurture of life in the natural world and care for the Earth must be at the centre of every policy and government decision.
We, a web of women, seek and support wisdom for the common good
WCC founding members Barbara Baikie, Lyn Stephens, Janet Salisbury, Glenda Cloughley, Johanna McBride and Kirsten Anker, with Ngambri-Ngunawal Elder Matilda House.
We accept our responsibility as custodians of a precious world that must be nurtured as it nurtures us
National Congress of Women
From November 2021 to September 2022, we held 2 one-day on-line Congresses and a two-day in-person Congress in Canberra. All were wonderful events with fantastic speakers and participants.
Through these events, other online conversations and member events we have gathered together ‘woman thought’ to create a WCC Charter for Change. We presented the Charter to women of all parties and female independents in the Federal Parliament at the end of November 2022.
Image: Hilary Warhaugh
‘Transforming power through political leadership’, National Congress of Women, September 2023
In conversation with Sen. Janet Rice (Greens), Sen. Karen Crogan (ALP), Bridget Archer MP (Liberal) and moderated by Cheryl Durrant.
Zali Steggall OAM (Independent) joined the conversation via online screen
Acknowledgement of Country
We acknowledge the traditional owners of the lands where we meet, noting that sovereignty has never been ceded. We pay our respects to First Peoples Elders past, present and emerging.
'This land is the song of Indigenous peoples,
All those who walked here and all their descendants,
Song of the creatures and spirits of dreaming,
Song of the children and culture they lost.
This land holds the lines of its earliest owners,
Custodians who respected the Earth,
Lines of their knowledge and wisdom of Elders,
We ask to walk with you in concord and peace.'
'Acknowledgement of Country' by Hazel Hall
Music by Glenda Cloughley, sung by A Chorus of Women
Image: Peter Creaser, Namadgi National Park