Uniforms split CWA

A RIFT has opened up inside Australia’s most traditional social group as members of the Country Women’s Association in New South Wales try to use its platform to make genderneutral uniforms “mandatory” in schools.

Progressives who have joined the CWA have put forward several radical motions at the organisation’s annual state conference, including a push to make gender-neutral uniforms “mandatory” in public school across NSW.

It’s causing a major rift in the country’s biggest women’s organisation, which has been better known since the 1920s for baking teas and scones at the local show. “We don’t think it’s a good idea,” Wellington branch secretary Phillipa Smith said. “It’s political correctness gone mad.”

The uniform motion will be voted on today and is the brainchild of Sydney City Branch president Elizabeth Nash.