Christian Women Concerned was the first explicitly religious feminist organisation in Australia.
It was founded in 1968 by a small ecumenical group of feminist scholars that included Marie Tulip, Dorothy McRae-McMahon and Jean Skuse.
[2][3] Christian Women Concerned started as a social justice group, and was actively involved in programs for social change, advocating peace, justice for Aboriginal people, and the elimination of poverty, prejudice, and violence against women.
[4] Arising from Presbyterian, Congregational and Methodist traditions, it soon became interested in how Christian teaching contributed to women's oppression.
[5] Australian academic and sociologist of religion, Kathleen McPhillips, described Magdalene as "a powerful forum for discussion, change and creativity reflecting the early challenges of second wave feminism and its extensive social justice program.