Identity area
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Title
Date(s)
- 2017 (Creation)
- 1978-1998 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
4 boxes, 1 tube, 1 parcel.
Context area
Name of creator
Administrative history
Women's Abortion Campaign (WAC) was a not-for-profit activist group that campaigned for the decriminalisation of abortion in Queensland, access to free and safe abortion, and sex education in schools through lobbying, rallies, and information-sharing. It was based in West End, Brisbane, and received funding largely from donations and membership subscriptions. An earlier iteration of the Women's Abortion Campaign was the Women's Campaign for Abortion (WCA), which formed in 1979 but disbanded around 1986. WCA then re-established in April 1991 as WAC, after individuals interested in abortion matters in Queensland began meeting again from 1989. WAC disbanded between the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Publicists - Debra McLoughlin, Mary Barram, Unna Liddy, Felicity Farmer, Frances Somers, Lorna Owen, Annette Liddy, Anna McCormack, Susan Price, Katrina Barben, Philippa Stanford, Nannette Wight, Jenny Hughie and Alison Stewart.
Repository
Archival history
Collection was created by the Women's Abortion Campaign.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Debra McLoughlin.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Organisational records created and collected by the Women's Abortion Campaign (WAC). Includes meeting minutes, correspondence, press releases, membership lists, parliamentary petitions, and government and regulatory body submissions, as well as documents relating to WAC's public activities and research into the legal and policy context of abortion in Australia. The collection contains original typed and handwritten speeches and papers, newspaper cuttings, an original artwork, newsletters, audiovisual materials, and photographs from marches and rallies. It also contains records relating to other abortion and women's rights groups, such as Children by Choice, the Abortion Rights Network of Australia and the International Women's Day Committee.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
The collection is arranged into six series: Series A: Minutes; Series B: Correspondence; Series C: Administration and public activities; Series D: Photographs, artwork, ephemera; Series E: Subject files; Series F: Audiovisual materials.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Unrestricted access.
Conditions governing reproduction
In copyright. Can be reproduced for personal research and study. For other uses see About copyright. Please attribute the Fryer Library.
Language of material
- English
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Allied materials area
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Access points
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Name access points
- Women's Abortion Campaign (Subject)
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Dates of creation revision deletion
Revised, Kymberley Doyle, 05-Jul-2024. Created, JH, 7-Sep-2021.