Australian National Women's Justice Coalition
MOTHER'S DAY, 10 May 1998
Features:  HREOC Report on the Stolen Generations - what you can do * Alternative Law Journal: Motherhood and the law
Arise, then, women of this day!
Mother's Day Proclamation Boston 1870

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  The Mother's Day Proclamation by Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910)

  The Proclamation was (and is) a call to mothers to mobilize for peace. Julia Ward Howe was an advocate for women's sufferage and she was also the author of the Battle Hymn of the Republic

  WHEN WAS MOTHER'S DAY FIRST CELEBRATED?

  According to the World Book Encyclopedia: Julia Ward Howe made the first known suggestion for a Mother's Day in the U.S. in 1872. In 1907, Anna Jarvis began a campaign for a nationwide observance of Mother's Day. She chose the 2nd Sunday in May and began the custom of wearing a carnation. A colored carnation means that a person's mother is living. A white carnation indicates that a person's mother is dead.

  SOURCE: The World Book Encyclopedia. 1995 ed., s.v. "Mother's Day."

  More on Anna Jarvis and Mothering Sunday - take this link to Mother's Day - History  on the ZIA Mother's Day web site

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  Stolen Generations - what you can do

  Participate in National Sorry Day - 26 May '98

  one year anniversary of the tabling of Bringing them Home

  Read and consider - Bringing them home: National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families  *  the recommendations [Austlii Community Guide] Take this link for information about where to get a copy of the whole report

   

  
  

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  The Alternative Law Journal -Motherhood and the Law

  Articles include:

  • Separating mothers and children: Australia's gendered immigration;
  • Who's rocking the cradle? Maternity rights in Australia;
  • Shared parenting: possibilities and realities;
  • Part-time work and indirect discrimination;
  • Lesbian families: parental responsibilities of co-mothers;
  • Women with family responsibilities need not apply;
  • On the bottom of the pile; Maternity rights: the baby or the job . . . ;
  • Maternity rights in Britain and Europe: failing to deliver;
  • Policing: 'Clearly this is not a breath freshener'!

  Authors include: Dominique Hansen and Marg Le Sueur, Therese MacDermott, Juliet Behrens, Annie Delaney, Rosemary Hunter, Jenni Millbank, Elizabeth Fletcher, Phillip Swain, Caroline Alcorso, Camilla Palmer and Chris Richards

  The Alternative Law Journal also includes ‘Sit Down Girlie!’ which covers the ebb and flow on gender issues in the law and the legal profession. Back issues of the column can be ordered.

  Where do you get it?
  Subscriptions Manager: Marilyn Gillespie
  Ph:03 9544 0974 fax 61 3 9905 5305
  email: m.gillespie@law.monash.edu.au
  post: Alternative Law Journal
  Law Faculty, Monash University,
  Clayton, Victoria, 3168
  http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/altlj/index.htm
   

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