This year’s International Women’s Day theme of #BreakTheBias invited us all to imagine a world that’s free of inequality, bias and discrimination. While advocacy work has highlighted the deep-rooted...
Category: Policy
Putting politicians and parties to the test
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Women's Electoral Lobby (WEL) a national, independent non-party political feminist lobby group working to ensure the rights of women are protected. Iola...
Endometriosis becomes a matter of State
Earlier this month French president Emmanuel Macron made a national address that stopped people in their tracks. The topic? Endometriosis. Kelly Saunders, a PhD student with the 50/50 by 2030...
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...
Maternity leave: how long is long enough?
Over summer, BroadAgenda is republishing some of its most popular articles. This compelling piece was first posted in 2020. The United States and Australia were famously slow to guarantee new...
Groundbreaking move to end period poverty
A few days ago people in Canberra awoke to the news that the ACT could be the first jurisdiction in Australia to provide free sanitary products in places like health facilities, public toilets,...
Review: Rape culture and silencing survivors
Content notification: This post contains discussion of rape culture, sexual assault and silencing victims. I’m back again to review two more books from the In the National Interest series – the...
The ecosystems of Parliament need urgent change
With a Christmas tree behind him the Prime Minister unwrapped a recycled theme years in the making and painful in its unpacking — the findings of the Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Kate Jenkin’s...
Will the Jenkins review fix parliament’s toxic culture?
In the wake of Brittany Higgins’ shocking allegations about being raped in a ministers’ office by a colleague, Prime Minister Scott Morrison initiated multiple inquiries. Arguably, the most...