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...
Category: Opinion
‘Slutdom’: A bold call to embrace women’s sexual empowerment
Despite decades of activism, women are still burdened with the effects of slut shaming in everyday life. Dr Hilary Caldwell’s new book, Slutdom, argues or women’s enjoyment of sex as a force to...
Perimenopause: I broke an unspoken rule at the chemist
There’s an unwritten rule at the chemist that you try not to overhear what the person in front of you is discussing with the pharmacist at the “scripts in” counter. This is hard because you are...
Pepper spray won’t solve gendered violence
For every complex problem there is always an answer that is simple, clear and wrong. We often see these answers crop up when dealing with the wicked social issue that is violence in our society....
Climate crisis: humanity is at a crossroads
In this blog post, international student Kayla Neville reflects on attending the inspiring event, Women Speak Out on COP28, hosted by the Women’s Climate Congress (WCC). "At the end of the day, we...
How do we bring a feminist lens to governance?
What does it mean to bring a feminist lens to governance? A comprehensive new publication edited by Marian Sawer, Lee Ann Banaszak, Jacqui True, and Johanna Kantola has brought together...
Actually, body positivism is empowering women to live
‘Get out of the way, you fat fuck’. These are the words a young bloke yelled at me from his moving car as I walked across a carpark in suburban Canberra. He swerved his car toward me, I assume to...
“You can’t judge someone’s health by their appearance”
Fresh from casually dancing and singing with the Bee Gees offstage at the Whitehouse during Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s State visit to the US (true story!), Australian of the Year Taryn...
Yearning for peace and reconciliation
This opinion piece was first published by the Australian Financial Review and is reposted here with permission. Read the original here. As a Jewish Australian, whose professional and personal life...