[5][6] In Spring 1972, members of the collective located suitable new premises in an old, two-story building at 25 Alberta Street, just south of Sydney's Hyde Park.
It was the locus of activism for radical feminist women and organizations, a hub of activism attracting the likes of veteran campaigners Joyce Stevens, Mavis Robertson[2] and Bessie Guthri,[7] as well as young feminist university students, activists and aspiring muckraking journalists, like Wendy Bacon and Anne Summers.
[29][30] Former PSI staffers Margaret Hooks, Rosemary Elliott, Dr. Margaret Taylor and others joined feminist reproductive-rights advocate Lynne Hutton-Williams in approaching the Control collective to help it vet abortion doctors in the greater Sydney area using criteria that included their willingness to incorporate counselling as an essential part of their services.
[29] They also increased Control's staffing so the referral service could provide full-time information and counselling, five days and three nights per week, to women seeking advice on abortion, pregnancy, single parent families and contraception.
[36][37] By 1979, however, Women's House was facing financial issues, launching a call for more support and beginning a series of annual fetes to help raise money to keep the space operational.
[46] The centre also regularly hosted Socialist Lesbian group meetings[46] and lent its space to "Women Behind Bars" for organizing around its "Empty Mulawa - No New Gaols" campaign.
But, Labor dropped protectionism in favour of globalization, deregulated banking and finance and restructured the role of trade unions, while failing to fully restore social services impacting women to their pre-Fraser levels.
Along with other progressive groups, in the mid-1980s Women's House became the target of far-right attacks,[48][49] which included burglaries and theft of files, documents and mailing lists, as well as vandalism to the property's facade and threatening phone calls.