We are academics who research and teach in the area of women’s rights and the prevention and response to intimate partner and family violence.When the Australian Senate established an inquiry into...
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BroadAgenda Wraps the Week
I must have a face that looks permanently confused, because I find men often feel the need to explain things to me. But unlike Rebecca Solnit, author of ‘Men Explain Things to Me’, verbose male...
Universal basic income: Free money or economic stimulus?
Just before the NSW lockdown came fully into operation in March, we visited a nearby village that is a favourite weekend destination. Many of the stores and cafes were already closed, but there was...
Pandemic risks wiping out hard-won gains by women in STEM
Australia has many inspiring women working in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Yet they still comprise only a third of the nation’s STEM research workforce.Across the decades, women...
See no women. Speak no women. Hear no women. No problem here?
In early May, the Deputy Prime Minister, Michael McCormack joined with the CEO of Regional Australia Institute, Liz Ritchie, to launch the Regional Australia Council 2031. The council is made up of...
Dreading the end of lockdown: why ISO has been a blessing in disguise
My baby was three months old when COVID-19 forced us all indoors. At first I mourned my sabotaged parental leave plans: I missed the company of my doting family and the members of my mothers’ group;...
Lockdown’s silver lining: or why I’m dreading the end of COVID
My baby was three months old when COVID-19 forced us all indoors. At first I mourned my sabotaged parental leave plans: I missed the company of my doting family and the members of my mothers’...
Childcare ‘reform’ set to flip backward to old norm?
If Dan Tehan brings the hammer down on free childcare on June 28, as growing speculation predicts, then Jen Jones will overnight go from paying nothing to $1340 a fortnight.The period of fee-free...
How to create a modern model for masculinity
When we eventually emerge, timid and blinking, into the post-COVID future, there’s one thing that’s certain - this is an opportunity to re-evaluate every aspect of how we live together on the...