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Australia’s Creative Economy Is Running on Empty

Australia’s creative economy is being held back by the collapse of its textile manufacturing base. With less than 1% of apparel textiles milled onshore and no national provenance certification, Australia risks losing its cultural, economic, and creative sovereignty. A real creative economy requires structure, manufacturing, and protected provenance — not symbolic celebration days.

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Not a Hobby Course.

Australia has 0% national certification for creative work, despite women forming the majority of creative and care-based labour. Global evidence from UNESCO, WHO, and WEF shows that creative practice requires structured pathways and professional accreditation to become a recognised workforce. The Creative Women’s Association proposes a national certification model to address this systemic gap.

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The Body Isn’t Modular. It’s Musical.

The gut and lungs aren’t separate systems — they’re in constant biochemical conversation.

As Dr. Vivek Lal and resbiotic remind us, when one is disrupted, the other follows. But at CWA, we’ve long stopped looking at the body as isolated organs — or even duos.

The real conversation includes the vagus nerve, the nervous system, and the stress circuits that shape how we breathe, digest, and create.
Women experience up to 76% more total stress burden than men — and it shows up biologically.
Not because women are weaker — but because the system asks us to carry more.

The solution isn’t self-regulation.
It’s system redesign.

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Stress-Load Cardiomyopathy

Takotsubo—“stress-load” cardiomyopathy—proves that overload is physiological, not poetic. When 80–90 % of cases occur in women who carry most unpaid work, the cure isn’t self-help; it’s systemic balance. Honour, in scripture and science, was never meant to look like exhaustion.

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Esther Rising. We Demand Partnership, Not a Hierarchy

Why The Time Has Come for Men to Lead, Women to Flourish, and Love to Be the Standard “We’re happy for men to lead — but only as leaders worth following, because true leadership lifts women, never breaks them.” — Esther. CWA Australia. The last week’s noise around Erika Kirk’s tribute has been deafening. People […]

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Out Beyond Ideas of Wrong and Right

Rumi’s words — “out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field” — resonate in today’s climate of political extremism. This CWA post argues that the colour that unites us is the red of shared humanity, not the black-and-white of division. It explores how balance is not just a political position but a moral stance, how neuroscience reveals the dangers of rigid thinking, and why the true struggle is not left versus right, but good versus evil.

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Together We Create

Creativity as calm: discover how art, writing, and play activate your parasympathetic nervous system to reduce stress, regulate emotions, and restore nervous system balance—evidence-based approaches for modern wellbeing.

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How Inner Grit Becomes Outer Triumph

Creativity as calm: discover how art, writing, and play activate your parasympathetic nervous system to reduce stress, regulate emotions, and restore nervous system balance—evidence-based approaches for modern wellbeing.

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How Creative Flow Reboots Calm

Creativity as calm: discover how art, writing, and play activate your parasympathetic nervous system to reduce stress, regulate emotions, and restore nervous system balance—evidence-based approaches for modern wellbeing.

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Flow Unlocked: How Creative Play Triggers Peak Focus and Mental Renewal

Creative, tactile experiences—through paint, clay, or movement—activate interoceptive and embodied cognition pathways, enabling women to access deeper self-awareness through bodily feeling rather than words.