Our logo
Our logo combines original artwork by Rhiannon Glasser and graphic design by Helen Ferguson (artspirit).
The overall image is a flower. This relates to our vision for the nurture of life to be at the heart of all important decisions. We also want women’s voices to bloom, for individuals to cultivate their strengths, and for conversations and connections to grow in the rich soil of communities.
At the heart of the logo flower is the globe – our precious planet Earth. The natural world is threatened by the changing climate, and the vast weight of scientific opinion tells us we humans are bringing about this change. Our congress of women wishes to protect the planet by bringing the climate back into balance. We advocate for nurture of life and care for the Earth to lie at the heart of all important decisions so that today’s children and future generations have the opportunity to wonder at the beauty of the world and marvel at its diversity and complexity.
The petals of the flower are women. They are of different shapes, sizes and colours. They face in different directions but they are all standing on the Earth. This reflects the diversity that we aspire to in our membership, our common grounding, and our joint responsibility to protect the natural environment for future generations.
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
In 2023, the Women’s Climate Congress (WCC) Steering Circle considered deeply how to publicly address the 2023 referendum on altering the Constitution to "recognise the First Peoples of Australia by establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice.” We are committed to the WCC Charter for Change, which urges us to seek unity and inclusion, and to listen to and learn from First Nations’ voices (see Action 4 ‘Listen and learn from First Nations knowledge’).
Read our statement about the referendum and support for First Nations’ self-determination here.
