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...
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What Micaela Cronin got right about ending gendered violence
Dr Hayley Boxall is a Research Fellow with the ANU and has undertaken research on domestic and family violence and sexual violence for over 10 years. She has published extensively on these topics,...
Detoxifying Australia’s Parliament: A survivor’s perspective
Content notification: This article contains discussion of sexual assault and violence Editor’s note: The author of this piece has requested to publish anonymously due to concerns about her safety...
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....
Aged care: if these were children, we’d be outraged
During the months that the Aged Care Royal Commission conducted its business, we heard tragic and horrific stories of vulnerable older people who were subjected to unimaginable abuse and neglect.
The Commissioners said it is a national shame that up to 50 sexual assaults take place every week in aged care. These are just the reported cases. How many more are silently ignored?
We’re making progress in preventing gender-based violence
On Friday, as around 5,000 people took to the streets of Melbourne for the Walk Against Family Violence, which every year kicks off the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, I found...
“The child cannot fathom the horror awaiting her”
Zimbabwean author Lucy Mushita has written a moving, original and emotional novel called, Chinongwa. The book recounts a coming-of-age story set in rural 1920s Zimbabwe. Chinongwa’s family have been...
New research: Gender and Race in Australian workplaces
“The sense of otherness is there ALL the time – everyday. I sometimes feel it very acutely. And I don’t think that shifts with time or experience.... The sense of otherness is always there.” This is...
When women get demonised for speaking out
Is it worse to commit the act, or to say that the act was done? I grew up with a Mum who was a family law solicitor in a medium-sized country town. As you would expect, she had to keep her lips...