About pamelas-list                                                                         

Background | National Women's Round Table | Australian Conference of Women's Organisations

Backgound

Pamelas-list is a private email list for representatives of Australian national women's peak organisations and regional women's organisations not represented nationally. The list is a primary vehicle for high level, day to day information exchange and coordination by women's organisations in Australia.

The list is provided by the National Women's Justice Coalition in July 1998 with financial assistance from the Pamela Denoon Trust. The list is named to honour the life and work of Pamela Denoon. 

Pamela's vision for the advancement of women in Australia included the hope that Australian women's organisations would, over time, work more closely together and be more supportive of each others issues and priorities. 

The National Women's Round Table

Pamelas-list was originally established to assist to share information in the lead up to the 1998 National Women's Round Table Meeting at Parliament House, Canberra on the 19 - 20 August '98. 

The National Women's Round Table is an annual meeting convened by the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Status of Women. There is information about the National Women's Round Table on the OSW web site. The 1999 National Women's Round Table was held on the 21-22 October 1999. There has been no announcement yet about the arrangements for the 2000 Round Table. 

Ministers statement in NEWS following the 1999 Round Table
NEWS report on the 1999 National Women's Round Table
List of NGO National Women's Round Table invitees (NEWS web site)

Australian Conference of Women's Organisations

The Australian Conference of Women's Organisations (AWOC) is the name of the private meeting of representatives of Australian national women's NGO's and regional and state wide women's NGO's not represented nationally. AWOC takes place immediately before the annual National Women's Roundtable. In the years before 1999, the AWOC was called the 'Pre-Round Table'.

Each year, the arrangements for AWOC are coordinated by a working group formed for the purpose. The YWCA of Australia is the primary contact for AWOC. The National Women's Media Centre provided a web site for AWOC '99

Organisations represented on pamelas-list

The list membership at 13 April 2002 consisted of the following national women's peak organisations and regional women's organisations not represented nationally. The public contacts for Australian national women's organisations are also on this site. The hyperlinks to the web pages of the organisations on the list below indicates that they have also joined pamelas-list web ring. 

Organisations represented on pamelas-list

Abortion Rights Network Australia
Association of Non-English Speaking Background Women of Australia  
Association of Women Educators Inc  
Australian Council of  Business Women
Australasian Council of Women and Policing Inc.  
Australian Education Union  
Australian Federation of Medical Women
Australian Federation of University Women
Australian Feminist Law Foundation  
Australian Local Government Women's Association
Australian National Committee of Refugee Women  
Australian Women in Agriculture
Australian Women Lawyers  
Australian Women's Health Network  
Australian Women's Motorsport Network
Australian Women Pilot's Association
Baha'i Office for Women  
Breast Cancer Network of Australia
Business and Professional Women
Coalition Against Trafficking in Women - Australia
Coalition of Activist Lesbians  
Coalition of Australian Participating Organisations of Women!  
Females in Information Technology & Telecommunications
Foundation for Australian Agricultural Women  
Guides Australia
International Alliance of Women
Maternity Alliance  
Movement for the Ordination of Women (National) Inc.
Muslim Women's National Network of Australia Inc.
National Association of Services Against Sexual Violence
National Association of Women in Construction
National Council of Jewish Women of Australia  
National Council of Single Mothers and their Children  
National Council of Women of Australia  
National Foundation for Australian Women
National Network of Indigenous Women's Legal Services
National Network of Women's Legal Services
National Union of Students Women's Department
National Women's Christian Temperance Union of Australia 
National Women's Justice Coalition 
National Women's Media Centre  
Network of Women in Further Education  
Nursing Mothers' Association of Australia  
Older Women's Network (Australia)  
Ordination of Catholic Women
Pan Pacific & SE Asia Women's Association Australia Inc
Queensland Rural Women's Network  
Sole Parents' Union  
Soroptimist International  
UNIFEM  
Union of Australian Women
United National Association of Australia Women's Committee  
Women in Science Inquiry Network  
Women Into Politics Inc  
Women With Disabilities Australia  
Women's Action Alliance
Women's Electoral Lobby (Australia) Inc  
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom  
Women's Rights Action Network Australia 
Women's Services Network
Womensport Australia  
YWCA of Australia
Zonta International

Applying to joining the list 

As indicated above pamelas-list is a private list for representatives of Australian national women's organisations and representatives of regional and state women's organisations not represented nationally. 

Those seeking to join the list must fit one of these criteria and must be authorised by the organisation they seek to represent to participate in the list as a representative of the organisation.  Organisations which are eligible to participate in pamelas-list, choose how many representatives they wish to have on the list. Each representative must have the necessary authority from the organisation.

Please do not apply to join the list unless you believe that you fit the criteria. Unless it is clear that you do fit the criteria the list housekeeper will contact you by email to ask for verification. This may include asking for a copy of your organisations objectives, constitution and verification from your board / committee that you have the organisations authority to represent the organisation on the list.

Organisations participating in pamelas-list take turns to do the list housekeeping. You can contact the list facilitator by emailing: owner-pamelas-list@lists.nwjc.org.au

To apply to join the list take this link to the joining form.

Additional facilities

Shared resources

There are two private facilities for the shared use of pamelas-list participants. The first is a private web area were organisations can share a range of resources (eg. mailing lists for national women's organisations, operational documentation, fax streams and the like).

The second is an email list called the-filing-cabinet. This list is used for posting large file attachments for pamelas-list participants. Attachments posted to the-filing-cabinet go into a private list archive which all pamelas-list participants can access. Notification of postings is provided to pamelas-list. The contact is: owner-the-filing-cabinet@lists.nwjc.org.au


Pamelas-list web ring

In September 2000 we established a 'home made' web ring facility for organisations represented on pamelas-list. Organisations represented on the list may choose to display the pamelas-list web ring logo on their web site. The logo may not be used for any other purpose with out the express permission of the National Women's Justice Coalition Inc. If you qualify to use the logo, simply follow the instructions below.

Instructions Right click on the logo you wish to use and choose 'save as'. Save the logo as pamelas-list.jpg   Place the logo on your web site with the following link on, or immediately below, the logo: http://www.nwjc.org.au/pamelaslist.htm Then notify us that the logo with web link is in place by emailing with the location of your site. We will check and then add the web link for your web page to the list of participating organisations, above. If you need help, the contacts for the NWJC are below.

Pamelas-web

Estblished in November 2000, this is an private additional discussion email list for the web developers of organisations represented on pamelas-list. The purpose of the list is to share experience and build expertise to promote the effectiveness in the use of the web by women's organisations and to promote the visibility of women's  organisations on the web.