Over summer, BroadAgenda is featuring a short series of profiles on amazing women and LGBTIQ + folks. You're about to meet Professor Riyana (Mira) Miranti. She's a socio-economist and development...
Category: Poverty
Waltzing Matildas: How is Australia Faring on Gender Equality?
The following is a shortened, lightly edited excerpt of a speech given by Australian politician, diplomat, gender equality advocate and author Natasha Stott Despoja AO, at the National Foundation...
Happy Mother’s Day! A women-friendly budget
I never intended to be a single mum. Indeed, when I turned 38 and had notched up 10 years without a partner, I investigated having a baby by myself and very quickly decided not to. It wasn’t the...
Change the lives of single mothers and their children
As the next Federal Budget looms, the non-profit Single Mother Families Australia is calling for an "end policy induced poverty." The CEO, Terese Edwards, explains. Single mother families seek...
Tackling our deep discomfort with miscarriage
Every year miscarriage affects up to 150,000 Australians and the people that love them. So why are we so damned bad at dealing with it? Journalist Isabelle Oderberg has written a groundbreaking book...
Forging tools to challenge gendered financial inequality
There’s a Jobs and Skills Summit in the offing – the new government canvassing issues and strategies with key stakeholders, and there is pre-caucusing going on to bring specific perspectives to the...
The myth of working-class men blocking gender equality
As a kid, I was brought up in relative poverty on a working class council estate, and part of that upbringing involved experiencing and witnessing profound violence perpetrated by several working...
National housing policy: Where’s the vision?
Well before the floods hit the Northern Rivers of NSW, many people were already living precariously. The images of shattered men, women and children losing their homes from weatherboard...
Unpacking the cumulative inequality of Australian women
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...