News and Events

New training opportunity!

Pregnancy Options and Reproductive Coercion training

Women's Health Tasmania is partnering with Queensland's innovative Children By Choice to present a unique training opportunity for Tasmanian workers.

The training presents evidence-based strategies for people who provide counselling, support or health care to people who are pregnant.

Listening to Women Migrants

In this webinar we explore the reasons why maternal health outcomes for women from migrant and refugee backgrounds are worse than those of other women in Australia, and what can be done to change this.  You can find a recording of the webinar here. 

Protest. We might be seeing the end of it

Why are we opposed to the Police Offences Amendment (Workplace Protection) Bill 2022

WHT’s Board is very concerned about the potential impact the proposed changes to the Police Offences Act is going to have on civil society protests.

New report on women on temporary visas

Women on temporary visas and with the services that work with them tell us that women who come to Australia as ‘temporary’ migrants are very vulnerable to poor health outcomes.

Non-Fatal Strangulation and Reproductive Coercion

This is the second of our webinars on family violence, in partnership with the Women's Legal Service, and was held on April 12, 2022. You can find a recording of the webinar here.

What are 'non-fatal strangulation' and 'reproductive coercion'? What new health-related offences in family violence are proposed?