Over summer, BroadAgenda is republishing some of its most popular articles. This compelling piece was first posted in March. There is extraordinary power in the emotions surfacing in women around...
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Can perpetrators of domestic violence be sued?
Over summer, BroadAgenda is republishing some of its most popular articles. This compelling piece was first posted in 2020. The costs of being a victim of domestic violence are huge. Prolonged abuse...
Groundbreaking move to end period poverty
A few days ago people in Canberra awoke to the news that the ACT could be the first jurisdiction in Australia to provide free sanitary products in places like health facilities, public toilets,...
Since I was three years old, I’ve known my mother as “Mara Beet” or “Uma Eyal,” which means “woman of the house” or “mother of the children.” I couldn’t view my mother as anything other than a...
The Super Woman Myth: Can we have it all?
One of the challenges of being a woman in the modern world is that no matter how far we’ve come in equality, in a heterosexual relationship women still, generally, bear the burden of the ‘mental...
Review: Rape culture and silencing survivors
Content notification: This post contains discussion of rape culture, sexual assault and silencing victims. I’m back again to review two more books from the In the National Interest series – the...
I’m a Facebook jailbird: the system is sexist
Content notification: This post contains discussion of and examples of online abuse and commentary some people might find offensive. It is published here in the interest of genuinely and openly...
The ecosystems of Parliament need urgent change
With a Christmas tree behind him the Prime Minister unwrapped a recycled theme years in the making and painful in its unpacking — the findings of the Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Kate Jenkin’s...
You’re a bad feminist: Countering anti-vax, wellness warriors
A few months ago I started highlighting and fighting against vaccine misinformation on Instagram. In the beginning, I was motivated by a desire to help people understand that the vaccines were safe...