At the NCWA Triennial Conference on Thursday, 21 November 2024, NCWA RESOLVED to urge the Australian Government:

1. Deepfake Prevention  – To integrate gender responsive standards at every stage of AI development and deployment, ensuring that AI systems, including those capable of creating deepfakes, do not perpetuate harm, exploitation, or violence against women.
2. Ethical AI Guidelines – To develop and adopt ethical gender responsive AI guidelines with a gender lens. It is critical to integrate gender-responsive standards that ensure the impacts on women and girls are considered at every stage of AI design, development and deployment,
3. Gender Equity in Technology – To foster a technological landscape that is ethical, transparent, and equitable for women ensuring that technological advancements contribute positively to society, maximising perspectives of women and girls during the design and implementation stages.
4. Introducing a Seniors Dental Benefit Scheme as soon as possible – To improve oral and dental health outcomes for older people in Australia by introducing a Seniors Dental Benefit Scheme as recommended by the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, and that a timeline for this be developed as soon as possible.
5. Women’s Economic Sustainability must start in the Early Years – To provide funding for schools to take a transformative role in challenging gender stereotypes, beginning in the early years, and directly support girls to maintain participation in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) across all levels of schooling.

At the NCWA Triennial Conference on Thursday, 10 November 2022, NCWA RESOLVED to urge the Australian Government:

1. To extend Universal Preschool to include all children in the 2 years before they start school, which would include three-year-olds;
2. To implement all 17 Global Goals for Sustainable Development (the Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs), signed at the United Nations by Australia in September 2015, and to measure and benchmark all legislation and decisions by the Australian Federal Government against the associated 169 targets and 232 measurable indicators on their impact toward achieving the SDGs;
3. To better support survivors of Modern Slavery (domestic, agricultural, or sexual slavery) alleged to have been committed/ perpetrated in Australia, through a national compensation scheme for survivors – implemented through amendment of the relevant federal legislation – so that survivors can access compensation through a slavery-specific national compensation scheme that should not require cooperation with police;
4. To compel child support customers to lodge a tax return annually and disallow child support decisions on ‘provisional income’;
5. To develop and implement a Charter/Bill of Human Rights;
6. To ratify the International Labour Organisation’s C190 – Violence and Harassment Convention 2019 (no. 190).

On hearing a presentation by Dr Anne Summers AO regarding her Report – “The Choice: Violence or Poverty” on Friday, 11 November 2022, NCWA RESOLVED forthwith that

7. The Australian Government should change the eligibility rules so that the parenting payment single allowance is available to all single parents until their youngest child reaches 16 or is still in high school.

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