Justine Maree Caines OAM (born 21 February 1973) is a birth activist in Australia.
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Justine Caines was National President of Maternity Coalition, the national umbrella organization for maternity lobbying in Australia from 2003–05 and 2008-09. She was the National Co-ordinator of Homebirth Australia from 2001–2006 and secretary from 2006-10.[1] She was also National Advocacy Advisor for Maternity Coalition. In 2007 she founded What Women Want, a political party. What Women Want aims to give Australian women a greater voice in decision making and bring a broad social policy framework back on the agenda. The party gained approx 60,000 votes in the 2007 election, but did not run candidates in 2010. Justine was honoured in the 2011 Australia Day Awards with an Order of Australia Medal for "service to the community, particularly in the area of women's health, maternity care and education."
She is married with eight young children and lives in rural New South Wales.