Taxpayer Betrayal: How Government-Funded Women’s Organisations Sacrifice Female Safety

Eleven Australian women’s organisations receive taxpayer money while promoting policies that put the feelings of men with gender dysphoria above the safety and rights of biological women.

These groups draw funding through the National Women’s Alliances Program, health peak body grants, DFAT support and various state-funded projects. They are:

• Australian Women’s Health Alliance
• Australian Multicultural Women’s Alliance
• International Women’s Development Agency
• National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women’s Alliance
• National Rural Women’s Coalition
• Tradeswomen Australia
• WESNET
• Women with Disabilities Australia (WWDA)
• Women’s Health in the South East
• Women’s Legal Services Australia
• Working with Women Alliance

By endorsing self-identification in women’s refuges, prisons, sports and services, these organisations dismantle single-sex protections.

Male patterns of violence and physical advantage do not disappear because someone self-identifies as a woman. Women lose privacy, safety and fairness when sex-based protections are removed.

Women With Disabilities Australia: A Case Study In Contradiction

Women with Disabilities Australia (WWDA) demonstrates this contradiction most clearly.

As a taxpayer-funded National Women’s Alliance, WWDA openly celebrates Transgender Day of Visibility and promotes “trans-inclusive feminism” as essential to disability justice. In doing so, it redefines the category of women it claims to represent to include biological males who identify as women.

This position sits uneasily beside WWDA’s own advocacy.

Women with disabilities already experience disproportionately high rates of violence perpetrated by men. WWDA’s own publications acknowledge this elevated risk. Despite documenting that reality, the organisation promotes policies that critics argue weaken sex-based protections for the very females it exists to represent.

This is not defending women. It is ideological capture paid for by Australian taxpayers.

Time For Accountability

Australians contribute millions of taxpayer dollars every year to organisations that increasingly advocate policies many believe erode sex-based rights.

The public has every right to know where its money is going.

If organisations are funded specifically to represent women, they should represent biological women without compromise.

Until they return to that purpose, their government funding should be subject to serious public scrutiny and reconsideration.

References

Office for Women. National Women’s Alliances funding information. PM&C / Office for Women.

Women with Disabilities Australia (WWDA). National Women’s Alliance Project (2025).

Women with Disabilities Australia (WWDA). Joint Submission (October 2025) promoting trans-inclusive feminism.

Women with Disabilities Australia (WWDA). Transgender Day of Visibility social media posts (Facebook and Instagram).

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW). Family, Domestic and Sexual Violence statistics relating to women with disability.

Our Watch. Research and reports on violence against women with disabilities.

United Nations. Reports on gender-based violence affecting women with disabilities.