A Shared Response to Women’s Financial Wellbeing

Addressing Western Australia’s cost of living pressures requires more than short-term relief. It calls for coordinated, cross-sector action that tackles the structural drivers of financial hardship.

This event brings together leaders from government, community services, industry and academia to advance a shared response to one of the most persistent and predictable drivers of financial vulnerability: women’s financial wellbeing.

Across the life course, women experience systemic financial disadvantage linked to employment patterns, caring responsibilities, separation, and lower retirement savings. These inequities not only impact individual wellbeing, but they also drive increasing demand across health, justice and social systems.

This session will explore how a coordinated, system-level approach can:

• strengthen early intervention and prevention
• build long-term financial capability
• support structural reform to reduce entrenched disadvantage

Rather than focusing on individual responses, the discussion will centre on how sectors can work together, aligning policy, services, and investment, to create meaningful and lasting change.

Facilitated by the Financial Wellbeing Collective (FWC), in partnership with Bankwest and the Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre (BCEC), this event offers a unique opportunity to connect with cross-sector peers and potential partners, contribute to shaping a shared agenda and be part of advancing WA’s Cost of Living Strategy in practice.

If your work intersects with financial wellbeing, economic policy, service delivery, or system reform, this conversation is for you.