ACARA | Australian Curriculum and Reporting Agency |
ACCHO | Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation |
ACM | Australian College of Midwives |
ACN | Australian College of Nursing |
ACT | Australian Capital Territory |
AHMRC | Aboriginal Health and Medical Research Council of NSW |
ALHR | Australian Lawyers for Human Rights |
AMA | Australian Medical Association |
ANMF | Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation |
ANU Hub | Australian National University Law Reform and Social Justice Research Hub |
ART | assisted reproductive technologies |
ARTG | Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods |
AusCAPPS | Australian Contraception and Abortion Primary Care Practitioner Support Network |
CALD | culturally and linguistically diverse |
Commission | Australian Human Rights Commission |
COCP | combined oral contraceptive pill |
committee | Community Affairs References Committee |
Consensus Statement | Consensus Statement on Management of Intersex Disorders |
CSE | comprehensive sexuality education |
CSRE | comprehensive sexuality and relationships education |
Department | Department of Health and Aged Care |
EM | endorsed midwife |
EN | enrolled nurse |
Fay Gale Centre | Fay Gale Centre for Research on Gender at the University of Adelaide |
FPAA | Family Planning Alliance Australia |
FPNSW | Family Planning NSW |
FNWLSQ | First Nations Women Legal Services Queensland, Inc. |
GP | general practitioner |
Health Insurance Act | Health Insurance Act 1973 |
Human Cloning Act | Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction Act 2002 |
ICF | in vitro fertilisation |
IUD | intrauterine devices |
LARC LGBTIQA+ | long-acting reversible contraception/contraceptive lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans/transgender, intersex, queer, asexual, and other sexuality, gender, and bodily diverse |
LGBTIQ+ or LGBTQI+ | lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans/transgender, intersex, queer and other sexuality, gender, and bodily diverse |
LGBTQIA2S+ | lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and/or questioning, intersex, asexual, Two-Spirit |
MBS | Medicare Benefits Schedule |
MBS Fee | Medicare Benefits Schedule Fee |
MCWH | Multicultural Centre for Women's Health |
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NACCHO | National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation |
Network | International Student Sexual Health Network |
NHMRC | National Health and Medical Research Council |
NHRA | National Health Reform Agreement |
NSW | New South Wales |
NT | Northern Territory |
OCP | oral contraceptive pill |
PBAC | Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee |
PBS | Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme |
Pharmacy Guild | The Pharmacy Guild of Australia |
QLD | Queensland |
QNMU | Queensland Nurses and Midwives’ Union |
RACGP | Royal Australian College of General Practitioners |
RANZCOG | Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists |
Reproductive Justice Report | Towards Reproductive Justice for young women, girls, feminine identifying, and non-binary people with disability (YWGwD) |
RN | registered nurse |
SA | South Australia |
SECCA | Sexuality Education Counselling Consultancy Agency |
STIs | Sexually Transmitted Illnesses |
terminations | pregnancy terminations |
TGA | Therapeutic Goods Administration |
the Department | Department of Health and Aged Care |
the Review | National Scope of Practice Review |
TRRH | True Relationships and Reproductive Health |
WA | Western Australia |
WHISE | Women’s Health in the South East |
Women’s Health Strategy | National Women’s Health Strategy 2020–2030 |
YEP | Youth Educating Peers |