The Coalition of Activist Lesbians-Australia,(COAL)-

History

  • COAL was formed in 1994 to work towards the end of discrimination against lesbians.
  • COAL lobbies the Australian Commonwealth and State Governments to remove discrimination against lesbians.
  • COAL is Australia's national lesbian advocacy orginisation and is the only United Nations Accredited lesbian Non Government Organisation.
  • We work with the U.N. Convention to Eliminate all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and were active at the 4th World Conference on Women, Beijing, 1995.
  • COAL has produced training resources and research papers which you and your workplace may be interested in purchasing to improve your knowledge and understanding of the issues that lesbians face.
  • Coal is currently lobbying for “grandfathering” of Changes to Centrelink Entitlements.