General News

On 8 March we celebrate International Women’s Day and on 10 March 2025, we join the global community in celebrating International Day of Women Judges. Both are significant occasions that recognise advances towards gender equality as well as the challenges that exist in many parts of the world.  While the […]

On Friday 21 February 2025, the Melbourne and Sydney offices of Ashurst hosted an afternoon tea with Afghan judges and their AAWJ mentors. The event was the brain child of Fleur Kingham, immediate past president of the AAWJ and the Ashurst pro-bono team.   The event featured a series of […]

The AAWJ has recently partnered with the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre for Elimination of Violence against Women (CEVAW) to establish a national research project. The objective of the research is to improve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women’s experience of family violence order proceedings. Members of the CEVAW University […]

The AAWJ AGM will be held on Tuesday, 18 June at 6:00pm AEST (SA/NT – 5:30pm, WA – 4:00pm). If you wish to attend by Zoom, you will find the Zoom meeting link on the Notice of AGM. Please click on the links below to view the AGM documents, including the President’s Report […]

The President of the AAWJ invites members and their partners to attend a dinner to mark the appointment of the Honourable Debra Mortimer as Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Australia. The venue is the Lyceum Club. Club members and AAWJ committee members Frances Millane and Diana Bryant AO […]

Please read the below statement from President Kingham as at 27 January 2023