Period Education Hub

Advocating for change

For more than a decade, Share the Dignity has been advocating for systemic change to ensure menstrual equity for all.

MENSTRUAL EQUITY IS MORE THAN ENDING PERIOD POVERTY

As well as removing barriers to accessing period products we are also about ensuring menstrual education and eradicating the shame and stigma surrounding periods.

Through our initiatives we advocate for better health outcomes for women, girls and anyone who menstruates. What started initially as a desire to provide period products to those in need has grown to be an organisation that has worked hard to create meaningful change in Australia including:

ADVOCATING for better health outcomes.

FACILITATING access to period products.

GATHERING crucial data.

PROMOTING sustainable options.

CREATING educational resources.

Get involved with these advocacy initiatives!

Councillor Lucy Collier supports Share the Dignity

COUNCIL CARES
Make a difference by encouraging your local councillor to get involved with Council Cares.

Teens can receive their choice of free reusable period product from Share the Dignity

ECO PERIOD CLUB
13-19 year olds can join our Eco Period Club to receive a FREE reusable period product of their choice!

Share the Dignity continues to lobby for free period products in hospitals

PAD UP PUBLIC HEALTH
Learn more about our journey to #PadUp Public Health and how you can help us make the change.

Help us #PadUp!

Introduce period-friendly initiatives at your workplace to better support your team

PERIOD PROUD ORGANISATIONS
Take meaningful actions toward menstrual equity in your workplace.

Advocacy Achievements Timeline

We created the first Dignity Vending Machine dispensing free period products to those who need them.

2016

We created the
world's first Dignity Vending Machine
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Hundreds of pallets of period products have been delivered to remote Indigenous communities

2018

Indigenous Menstrual Health program created
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In2018 Share the Dignity led a successful petition to axe the tax on period products

2019

Removal of GST on period products
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Students have access to free period products while at school

2019 - present

Free period products in schools
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Our first Bloody Big Survey found 1 in 5 had improvised on their period products

2021

First Bloody Big Survey
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Share the Dignity has been advocating for free period products to be made available in hospitals

2022 - present

Free period products in hospitals
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The Global Period Poverty Forum brought together world-class speakers, outstanding researchers and those making a global impact on period poverty

2022

Global Period Poverty forum
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Share the Dignity continues to lobby governments to provide free period products

2023 - present

Free period products in public places
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The second Bloody Big Survey was supported by Australian sporting legend, Liz Ellis.

2024

Second Bloody Big Survey
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78% of menstruators with a disability have struggled to afford period products.

2024

A proposed change to NDIS funding
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Share the dignity continues to advocate for access to period products in prisons, watchhouses and detention centres

2024 - present

Periods in custody
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Councillor Jared Cassidy and Share the Dignity Founder Rochelle Courtenay standing beside a Dignity Vending Machine at Sandgate Aquatic Centre dispensing free period products

2024 - present

Council Cares
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