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contents

1. Basics
   • Related entities
     • Subsidiaries
     • Allies
     • People
2. Detail
   • Timeline
3. Footnotes
4. References
5. Metadata

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Basics

• Entity type: Corporation; advocacy group; anti-trans
  • Domicile: Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia¹ (nominal)²
  • Company class: Incorporated association³
  • NSW Incorporation Number: INC2301365⁴
  • Australian Business Number: 98 497 982 450⁵
  • Date incorporated: 19 December 2023⁶
• Twitter: @WRNAustralia⁷
• Website: wrnaustralia.au
• YouTube: @WRNAustralia⁸
• Pyrophore IFF: 🟥 Foe

Related bodies

Subsidiaries

WRNA controls the following bodies:

• Respect Our Sex, a campaign against the NSW Equality Bill which WRNA launched in July 2023 (Women’s Rights Network Australia, “Our campaigns,” n.d.)

Allies

The following entities co-operate with WRNA, or vice versa, out of ideological commonality:

• Declaration of Biological Truth Australia, to which WRNA is a signatory (Women’s Rights Network Australia, 2023d);
• Fair Game Australia, with whom WRNA co-organises events (Women’s Rights Network Australia, 2024f);
• LGB Alliance Australia, with whom WRNA co-organises events (Women’s Rights Network, Australia, 2024f);
• Women’s Declaration International, to whose Declaration on Women’s Sex-based Rights WRNA is a signatory (Women’s Rights Network Australia, 2023e);
• Women’s Rights Network, WRNA’s British namesake and prototype,⁹ who provided WRNA with unspecified support during its inaugural year, 2023 (Women’s Rights Network Australia, 2023f).

People

The following people have, or have had, significant roles in WRNA:

• Jess (last name unknown), co-founder (Women’s Rights Network Australia, 2023f)
• Kit Kowalski, co-founder (Fitzsimmons, 2023; Women’s Rights Network Australia, “Our campaigns,” n.d.)

Detail

Women’s Rights Network Australia (WRNA, WRN Australia) is an anti-trans advocacy group. It describes itself as “a non-partisan network of women across Australia who organise to promote and protect our sex-based rights” (Women’s Rights Network Australia, “About us,” n.d.).

Timeline

2023, April 28. WRNA says its first members joined the organisation on this date (Women’s Rights Network Australia, 2023f & “About us,” n.d.).

2023, June 30. WRNA makes a submission to the Australian federal Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights’ inquiry into Australia’s Human Rights Framework (Women’s Rights Network Australia, 2023a).

2023, August 22. WRN Australia makes a submission (Women’s Rights Network Australia, 2023b) to the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) in support of the Lesbian Action Group’s application for a temporary exemption from the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (Cth).

• On 1 October, after an adverse interim judgement, WRNA makes a submission to the AHRC in support of an appeal (Women’s Rights Network Australia, 2023c).

2023, August 25. A joint submission to the Australian federal Parliamentary Joint Committee on Public Accounts and Audit’s inquiry into probity and ethics in the public sector (Australian Feminists for Women’s Rights et al., 2023) is made by a coalition of anti-trans groups, including WRNA.

2023, November 14. WRNA publishes an Open letter from clinicians concerned about the NSW Government’s flawed framework for gender treatment services for children and young people (Aldabbagh et al., 2023), which it attests was sent on 5 November to all Members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Signatories to the letter who are indexed in Pyrophore include:

• Dianna Kenny
• Jillian Spencer

Footnotes

1. New South Wales Fair Trading (2024); Women’s Rights Network Australia (website index, n.d., footer). ↩︎
2. The registered address at ibid. corresponds to Bustle Studios, a co-working and events venue operated by ODSC Pty Ltd (Bustle Studios, 2023) which also offers virtual office address services (ibid.; Bustle Studios, n.d.). Therefore, WRNA’s registered address does not necessarily meaningfully reflect where it “is”. ↩︎
3. Australian Securities and Investments Commission (2024). ↩︎
4. ibid. ↩︎
5. Women’s Rights Network Australia (website index, n.d.). ↩︎
6. New South Wales Fair Trading (op. cit.). ↩︎
7. Women’s Rights Network Australia (website index, n.d., right sidebar). ↩︎
8. ibid. ↩︎
9. Pyrophore accepts WRNA’s characterisation of itself as independent from the UK WRN. ↩︎

References

Aldabbagh, A., Bornstein, D., Breakey, C., Brennan, R.J., Chan, R.M.F., … & Wells, J. (2023, November 14). Open letter from clinicians concerned about gender treatment for children [News release]. Women’s Rights Network Australia; Archive Today. Retrieved 15 April 2024.

Australian Feminists for Women’s Rights, Coalition of Activist Lesbians, LGB Alliance Australia, & Women’s Rights Network Australia (2023, August 25). [Submission]. Australian Parliamentary Joint Committee on Public Accounts and Audit (Australian Parliament Department of Parliamentary Services); Wayback Machine (Internet Archive). Retrieved 15 April 2024.

Australian Securities and Investments Commission (2024, April 15). Women’s Rights Network Australia Incorporated [Company summary]. Australian Department of the Treasury (Australian Government). Retrieved 15 April 2024.

Bustle Studios (2023, July 12). Co-working & virtual address membership: Terms & conditions. ODSC Pty Ltd; Wayback Machine (Internet Archive). Retrieved 16 April 2024.

Bustle Studios (n.d.). Virtual office address. ODSC Pty Ltd; Archive Today. Retrieved 16 April 2024.

Fitzsimmons, C. (2023, August 11). Gay conversion law would ban suppression of gender identity. The Sydney Morning Herald (Nine Entertainment Company Ltd); Archive Today. Retrieved 4 April 2024.

New South Wales Fair Trading (2024, April 15). Women’s Rights Network Australia Incorporated [NSW Incorporated Associations Register extract]. New South Wales Government. Retrieved 15 April 2024.

Women’s Rights Network Australia (2023a, June 30). Australia’s Human Rights Framework Review submission (Submission 177) [Submission]. Department of Parliamentary Services (Parliament of Australia). Retrieved 15 April 2024.

Women’s Rights Network Australia (2023b, August 25). Submission … to the Australian Human Rights Commission regarding Lesbian Action Group’s application for exemption [Submission]. Australian Human Rights Commission; Internet Archive (Wayback Machine). Retrieved 16 April 2024.

Women’s Rights Network Australia (2023c, October 1). Re: Appeal against interim judgment — Lesbian Action Group Application for a temporary exemption under s 44(1) of the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (Cth) [Submission]. Australian Human Rights Commission; Wayback Machine (Internet Archive). Retrieved 16 April 2024.

Women’s Rights Network Australia (2023d, December 6). WRNA signs the Declaration of Biological Truth Australia [News release]. Archive Today. Retrieved 15 April 2024.

Women’s Rights Network Australia (2023e, December 6). WRNA signs the Women’s Declaration International [News release]. Archive Today. Retrieved 15 April 2024.

Women’s Rights Network Australia (2023f, December 24). 2023 year in review [News release]. Archive Today. Retrieved 15 April 2024.

Women’s Rights Network Australia (2024, March 14). Rally for women’s rights in Martin Place [News release]. Archive Today. Retrieved 15 April 2024.

Women’s Rights Network Australia (n.d.). About us. Archive Today. Retrieved 4 April 2024.

Women’s Rights Network Australia (n.d.). Our campaigns. Archive Today. Retrieved 16 April 2024.

Women’s Rights Network Australia (n.d.). [Website index]. Archive Today. Retrieved 16 April 2024.

Metadata

• Revision: 1 (16 April 2024).
• Created: 16 April 2024.