In this conversation, Professor Clare Wright, Professor of History and Public Engagement at La Trobe University, talks to me (BroadAgenda editor, Ginger Gorman), about her new book, Ṉäku Dhäruk: The...
Category: Feature
Pioneering job-share candidates: A feminist leap in politics
Two women from Melbourne - Lucy Bradlow and Bronwen Bock - want to job-share in Federal parliament. The University of Canberra’s Professor Kim Rubenstein is a constitutional law and citizenship...
Heart health: Why women need more attention and action
Professor Nicole Freene is a clinical physiotherapist based at the University of Canberra. For more than two decades she has worked as a physiotherapist and over the last decade her research has...
Women’s health at risk: The cost of delayed care
This article was written by me (Ginger Gorman) for the publication Women's Agenda in my capacity as a freelance journalist. It's republished here with full permission. You can read the original...
The gutsy women fighting global disinformation online
When I wrote about cyberhate in my book Troll Hunting (2019), I wanted people to understand two important points. First, that trolls are rarely those stereotypical lonely guys, spitting out vitriol...
Sharing human milk: challenging Australian regulatory regimes
Women who share their milk may meet with social disapproval, but this ancient practice for feeding vulnerable babies and meeting breastfeeding challenges signals an adaptable decentralised nutrition...
TransTrans exhibition unveils global histories of gender diversity
Currently there’s an ambitious exhibition on at the Pride Centre in Melbourne called TransTrans. The show delves into the history of gender-diverse communities and scientists in Berlin, America and...
Women’s rights under siege amid Middle East conflict
Women continue to lose out as the crisis in the Middle East heats up. That’s without even counting the ravages the war between Israel and Hamas is having on women and children in the Occupied...
From Alaska to advocacy: A journey towards gender equality
This article was originally published on HerCanberra and is kindly republished here with permission. It’s part of a terrific series called “How I got here.” You can read more of the series here. In...