In a brand new podcast called "There’s No Place Like Home", produced by Future Women, survivors are placed at the centre of the story. Ten brave Australians speak candidly about abuse they’ve...
Category: Gender
Banishing body shame: ‘Ladies, We Need To Talk’
'Ladies, We Need To Talk' (the book) breaks the stigma around everything women are thinking but not saying. Author and presenter Yumi Stynes and health reporter and digital editor Claudine Ryan...
COVID-19: Economic insecurity and domestic abuse
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted significant concerns about the “shadow pandemic” of violence against women, and in particular intimate partner violence. A new study published by ANROWS...
We will not be invisible: photographing older women
Women over the age of 40 often say they are suddenly become invisible in public life. Well, not to photographer Yasmin Idriss. Two years ago she embarked on a project to photograph the fabulousness...
An inspiration: Professor Stuart Macintyre (1947 – 2021)
In 1993, as a freshly minted Harvard graduate and thrilled by my appointment to teach constitutional and administrative law at Melbourne University, I had an idea of academia as seen through a...
Our storytelling around fatherhood must change
Over summer, BroadAgenda is republishing some of its most popular articles. This compelling piece was first posted earlier this year. I groan at the screen when I see my kids watching one of the...
I’ve suffered gender discrimination. Now I fight it.
Over summer, BroadAgenda is republishing some of its most popular articles. This compelling piece was first posted earlier this year. Picture this: a young mother, struggling across the road with a...
What gender pay gap? Big little lies?
Over summer, BroadAgenda is republishing some of its most popular articles. This compelling piece was first posted in 2019. Australia’s gender pay gap currently sits at 14%. Australian full-time...
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...