The Annual Report of the Older Women’s Network NSW 1 July 2025 – 30 June 2026.
2025 – 2026 Annual Report
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Homes for Older Women (HOW) Program: Western Sydney Community Forum
Volume Four of the Western Sydney Community Forum, Stories to Solutions series, showcased some of the 2025 ZEST Awards winners, highlighting the impact that their work has had on Western Sydney communities.
Issue five highlights the Homes for Older Women (HOW) Program.
Submission to the Select Committee on Intergenerational Housing Inequity
This submission argues that the framing of this inquiry as “intergenerational housing inequity” is analytically flawed and risks misdirecting policy responses. You can download our submission, number 106, from the Select Committee on Intergenerational Housing Inequity submissions page.
2024 – 2025 Annual Report
The Annual Report of the Older Women’s Network NSW 1 July 2024 – 30 June 2025.
LifeStages – The [un] Silencing of Older Women
A Gender Lens For Elder Abuse. Elements, Principles and Guidelines.
LifeStages – The [un] Silencing of Older Women
A life stages approach for the national plan to end violence against women and their children.
2023 – 2024 Annual Report
The Annual Report of the Older Women’s Network NSW 1 July 2023 – 30 June 2024.
Submission Issues related to menopause and perimenopause 16 February 2024
A submission into the Inquiry into Issues related to menopause and perimenopause by the Older Women’s Network NSW 16 Feb 2024
2022 – 2023 Annual Report
The Annual Report of the Older Women’s Network NSW 1 July 2022 – 30 June 2023.
Submission into the Inquiry of the worsening rental crisis in Australia
OWN NSW’s Submission into the Inquiry “The worsening rental crisis in Australia”. Older women and housing: the personal and community cost
Older Women’s Perspectives on Telehealth
An OWN NSW report on older women’s experience of telehealth and how to improve accessibility to healthcare for older people led by CEO Yumi Lee and Professor Dimity Pond.
Vision and Vitality
Vision and Vitality. Celebrating 25 Years of the Older Women’s Network NSW by Dorothy Cora
Decades of Housing Decline: 2011 & 2021 Census Analysis NSW
New census data shows that over the last ten years, the housing circumstances for people aged 55 years and older in NSW have gotten worse. This report is based on original research conducted for Housing for the Aged Action Group by researchers at Swinburne University of Technology, Western Sydney University and Curtin University.
OWN NSW Annual Report 2021-2022
The Annual Report of the Older Women’s Network NSW 1 July 2021 – 30 June 2022.
OWN NSW Criminalising Coercive Control Submission
Older Women’s Network Criminalising Coercive Control Submission to the NSW Joint Select Committee on Coercive Control
NSW Homelessness Inquiry OWN NSW Submission 2022
This submission to the NSW Upper House Standing Committee on Social Issues Inquiry into Homelessness Amongst Older People Aged Over 55 in New South Wales, is on behalf of all those older women working with OWN NSW.
Submission to the Draft National Plan to End Violence against Women and Children 2022-2032-OWN NSW & HAAG
Submission to the draft National Plan to End Violence against Women and Children 2022-2032-OWN NSW
The George Institute Sex & Gender Roundtable Report
The George Institute Sex & Gender Roundtable Report. Organisations representing consumer groups were invited to attend the Sex & Gender Bias in Research and Healthcare Roundtable November 4 2021.
Home at Last: Solutions to End Homelessness of Older People in NSW
Housing is critically important for physical and mental health, and general wellbeing of older people. With a decline in home ownership at retirement age, unprecedented increases inhousing prices and a reduction in social and affordable housing stock in NSW, older people are experiencing significant housing challenges and are at increased risk of homelessness.
Centre Stage The history of the Theatre Group by Dorothy Cora (2009).
Centre Stage – Celebrating the Rise and Rise of the Older Women’s Network Theatre Group. The history of the Theatre Group by Dorothy Cora (2009).
Q&A factsheet INDUE Card
A Q&A factsheet on the INDUE Card put together by No Cashless Debit Card Australia and the Older Women’s Network
Together Connected Again – a magazine from the Older Women’s Network NSW
References to Sexual Abuse in the Aged Care Royal Commission
AGEIST? SEXIST? WHO, ME? – Ashton Applewhite the intersection between age and sexism
Valuing Women’s Worth – Emma Dawson Keynote Address 2021 Older Women’s Network NSW
Older Women’s Network NSW Annual Report 2021
Aged Care Royal Commission: Submission for requests for considerations in the final report
Aged Care Royal Commission: Submission on the Necessity for the Reform of the Aged Care Act 1997
Aged Care Royal Commission: Submission to draft Aged Care Visitor Access Code
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We acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which we work and live, and we pay our respects to Elders past and present.
We acknowledge the sorrow of the Stolen Generations and the impacts of colonisation on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
OWN NSW supports the Uluru Statement from the Heart, the call for a First Nations Voice enshrined in the Australian Constitution and a Makarrata Commission to oversee agreement-making and truth-telling.