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.
It was the comic strip and movies that unleashed the legendary Australian comedian, and many of his characters, on the world.
The “invisible” nature of interpreters’ roles means many of the challenges they face aren’t widely acknowledged.
A group of mostly white academics applauding the statement “I hate rap” diminishes the historical and socio-cultural contexts surrounding the form.
Gender-based violence is a national crisis, one the university sector is not immune from, and we need to step up now.
A new five-year study aims to build a broad picture of illicit drug use in regional Victoria, to better-understand the gaps in local health service planning.
Well-off investors with multiple properties own a majority of rental homes. They have no excuse not to do the right thing by their tenants.
Jacinta Walsh’s great grandmother navigated oppressive policies her entire life, and didn’t have a public voice. Now, however, through the family’s storytelling, she does.
What legal sanctions might be applicable now that Victoria Police has reopened its investigation into Melbourne’s Adass Israel School board and the alleged role it played in assisting former principal and convicted paedophile Malka Leifer to flee Australia?
Cancelling the 2026 Commonwealth Games will be costly, but, in doing so, Victoria’s premier Daniel Andrews has called out the excesses of the sport mega-event industry.
New research shows Indigenous women experiencing intimate partner violence had engaged with police to help them. However, many didn’t receive the support that potentially could have saved their lives.
Recognition of forced marriage as a form of family violence paves the way for victim-survivors to seek help, but are the support systems set up for it?
Up to 60% of people with dementia will get lost at some point after diagnosis – but are more likely to survive than other older people.
More research is needed on the legal processes and experiences of LGBTQ+ victim-survivors when seeking protection from abusive partners or family members.
Only a few Indigenous languages remain strong in modern Australia. On a new episode of Monash University's "What Happens Next?" podcast, linguists and human rights advocates outline what we've lost.
It’s understandable some people wish to publicly grieve the Queen, but those who disagree with the monarchy also have a right to freedom of speech.
Intervention by bystanders can reduce the occurrence and impacts of image-based abuse, but there are many barriers to calling it out.
If you were being polite, you’d call it “colourful”. It was once also regarded as “disgusting” and an oath, but really, it’s just a bloody great word.
A drug-monitoring program in hospital emergency departments is tracking the alarming rise of strange new psychoactive synthetic drugs in Australia.
The risks of facial recognition technology should be discussed now, before it becomes baked into the security and marketing systems of our increasingly surveillance-based society.
Indigenous babies are still being removed from their parents and placed into out-of-home care at alarmingly high rates. A new alliance is hoping to change that.
The moment Kabul fell to the Taliban in 2021, a team of Monash University students and leaders began working to bring a number of evacuees to safety. Hear the harrowing story this week on the University's podcast, “What Happens Next?”.
It’s time to ask our politicians the hard questions about what they intend to do to strengthen human rights protections if elected to government.
The Morrison government has walked back on its pledge to establish a federal anti-corruption commission, while its term in government was peppered with allegations of corrupt behaviour.
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