Cancelling Crown’s licence would have sent a very clear message that no entity is too big to fail. The achievement of effective regulation, including effective protection for vulnerable people, remains some way off.
What symptoms reliably indicate the start of perimenopause or menopause? And which symptoms can menopause hormone therapy help with? Here’s what the evidence says.
With the major awards season over, 2024 is becoming the year for women in music, but a lack of information and knowledge about sexual violence in music spaces and other creative places can dampen this newfound visibility.
Mike McColl Jones began writing comedy in the early 1960s, and for the next 40 years worked continuously at the epicentre of the Australian entertainment industry through the golden age of television.
Seven Monash University academics share their unique journeys with us to celebrate International Women’s Day 2024.
Gender equality, in the workforce and at home, took a backward step during the pandemic, with the patriarchy taking advantage of the virus. It’s not just up to women to fight back.
Data showed the view of the Indonesian government wasn’t prominent in news coverage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Three Monash University youth ambassadors played important roles at the 28th Conference of the Parties (COP), the world’s most significant global forum for climate action.
The PR industry is being rebadged, but the history it tells omits the key role women have played, and many of its milestones and missteps.
The naming, for the first time, of specific companies, not just industries, and what they pay their male and female workers, is set to pressure employers to take action.
Liars and fake news merchants are profiting from misinformation and disinformation in Indonesia. Can it be fixed?
Government reforms are fighting the tactics that have fed a cultural acceptability of vaping, and a mistaken belief it has insignificant health risks.
As Indonesia’s election looms, young people want action on climate change, but research shows the country’s political class isn’t listening.
Loneliness isn’t a universal occurrence in later life, but tends to affect older people who live alone or in care homes. We must work collectively to destigmatise loneliness, and create a safe space to talk about it.
As Closing the Gap policy failures are laid bare in the Productivity Commission’s latest report, a new study aims to quantify the gap in Indigenous mental health and economic insecurity.
Months of painstaking negotiations, mediated by the US, Egypt and Qatar, have led to a new package deal that the two sides are now weighing up.
Language has been dubbed “the covert operations of war”, such is the power it holds in shaping public opinion. Here’s what we found about the way Australian media has been framing the conflict.
If you’re contemplating breast augmentation, liposuction, or a facelift, there are new safety and quality standards that can provide extra protection. Here’s what you need to know ahead of surgery.
We crave certainty in our weather forecasts. But that’s only possible for big weather events such as cyclones and major storms. Everything else is probability.
School-leavers want flexibility and gig work offers it. But how will that affect the economy?
So far, Israel’s war in Gaza hasn’t greatly disrupted global supply chains. But the situation could quickly shift along many fault lines.
Domestic violence can increase amid bushfires, but Australia has a poor track record of responding to it. With a hot summer ahead, authorities are warned to prepare.
There’s plenty of evidence showing how social media use can affect youth mental health, but studies often omit the developing countries of the global south.
It was the comic strip and movies that unleashed the legendary Australian comedian, and many of his characters, on the world.
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