The Older Women’s Network NSW has announced that writer, broadcaster, documentary-maker and social commentator, Jane Caro AM has accepted an Ambassador role with the organisation.

Caro is an advocate for public education, gender equality and integrity in politics. She has written on the homelessness of older women, the plight of disadvantaged women over 50 and on sexual assaults in nursing homes.

Speaking on her appointment to the Amassadorship, Caro said, “As a feminist who is ageing in interesting times, it is an absolute pleasure for me to be an Ambassador for OWN NSW and to lend my support for the important causes to end homelessness of older women and to also stop violence against women, especially older women. It is outrageous that we’re seeing growing numbers of women retiring into poverty and homelessness.”

Caro was appointed as a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2019 Queen’s Birthday Honours in recognition of her “significant service to the broadcast media as a journalist, social commentator and author”.

In 2018 she was won a Walkley in the June Andrews Award category recognising Women’s Leadership in Media.

Caro appears frequently on Q&A, The Drum, Sunrise and Weekend Sunrise. She has created and presented three documentary series for ABC’s Compass, airing in 2015, 2016 and 2017. She regularly pens columns in Sunday Life and Leadership Matters.

As well as her media work, Caro has lectured for seven years at Western Sydney University teaching Advertising Creative.  Her thirteen books include three novels Just a Girl, Just a Queen and Just Flesh & Blood – a trilogy on Elizabeth Tudor, a memoir, Plain Speaking Jane, and Accidental Feminists about the life story of women over 50. Her latest book, her first novel for adults, The Mother, is a bestseller.

This year, she stepped into politics with the Reason Party making an initial (unsuccessful) tilt at the New South Wales Australian Senate, campaigning for improved policies on climate change, gender equity and integrity in politics.

Jane Caro joins Caroline Baum as Ambassadors for OWN NSW. CEO of OWN NSW, Yumi Lee said, “We are so privileged to have them join us to change the status quo for older women.”