BroadAgenda Research Wrap is your monthly window into academia. We scour the journals so you don’t have to. No topic too impenetrable, no research too eclectic; BroadAgenda Research Wrap brings you...
Must listen podcasts for the late onset feminist
My image of feminism growing up was naïve and clichéd. It was when I turned 50 and the #MeToo movement went viral that I felt a rumble of rage, yet somehow unworthy. Married for 25 years and the...
Diverse women fronting veterans’ peace movement
When she joined Veterans For Peace in 2015 it didn’t take Army veteran Monisha Ríos long to learn that there is a status hierarchy among vets—even those working for peace and justice. On meeting...
Review: ABC TV’s Ms Represented
“100 years of ‘firsts’: The story of women in Australian parliaments started with a blunder from an inept man with a not-quite-so-ingenious plan.” Ebenezer Ward, an anti-women’s rights politician...
Turia Pitt: How to rewrite your own story
Ten years ago Turia Pitt had her career mapped out. She was a mining engineer, working in the Kimberleys. One day, she planned to be CEO of a global firm. “That never happened,” Turia told an...
‘It’s time now to right the wrongs of the past’
Co-chairs of the Uluru Youth Dialogue, Allira David and Bridget Cama, talk about their fight for justice and self-determination.
Ex-MP Julia Banks describes horrifying culture of misogyny
An audible murmur of discomfort ripples through the audience at the Australian National University's Kambri Cultural Centre as former Liberal MP Julia Banks describes being verbally abused and told...
How the ABC is smashing the glass ceiling
It’s a man’s world, alright. Or that’s what you’d have to assume if you turn on TV or radio. Women might make up just over half of the Australian population, but they are quoted in the media just...
How do we father in the era of #metoo?
I have two young kids, and love discussing the joys and challenges of fatherhood with different audiences. I’ve been grappling with a dilemma ever since we first heard news of alleged sexual assault...