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Welcome to our new CEO Kara Cook
BRQ thanks our outgoing CEO Fiona Hunt for all her great work, and welcomes new CEO Kara Cook!
Our regional publicity campaign
A selection of videos highlighting our work in Western Qld
Save our Working Womens Centres
We are launching a campaign to Save our Working Womens Centres and are seeking your support.
Centres for working women at risk
Despite this month’s federal budget pledging $3.2 billion to women, a critical front-line service has lost much of its funding and will likely close before the end of the year.
Women’s workplace centres warn services may have to be scaled back
Women’s workplace centres say they will be forced to close or drastically reduce services if they are ignored in Tuesday’s federal budget.
‘Enormous unmet need’: Women’s employment legal services running on a shoestring
A single lawyer volunteering for two days a week is shouldering the burden of providing freely accessible workplace legal advice to women in NSW.
Special Coronavirus security arrangements to end
Information about the temporary arrangements in place for JobSeeker Payment because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Centrelink debt pause to end, repayments won’t restart until 2021
The pause on debt in response to COVID-19 is ending. But if you owe money, you won’t need to repay it until next year.
Rights for people with disabilities – a history
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Shining a light on Social Transformation