Recently, more than 150 first-year Monash University students travelled to Fiji for two weeks of deep cultural immersion and learning.
Seven Monash University academics share their unique journeys with us to celebrate International Women’s Day 2024.
Data showed the view of the Indonesian government wasn’t prominent in news coverage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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.
Government reforms are fighting the tactics that have fed a cultural acceptability of vaping, and a mistaken belief it has insignificant health risks.
The groundbreaking identification of a specific T-cell receptor in healthy people without lupus has the potential to treat not only that disease, but approximately 100 autoimmune diseases known to have a similar pathology.
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.
2023 was a watershed year for women’s reproductive rights in Australia, but the cost of contraception and abortion services remains too high.
In less than two years, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has gone from clear choice to fighting for majority support in the polls. What happened?
Snake envenomation remains a significant health challenge in the ASEAN region, but the development of a universal antivenom holds great promise in mitigating its impact.
The growing gulf between policy spaces and research communities in Indonesia has been apparent in recent years, as evidenced in the use of a “one-size-fits-all” approach to the enactment of new laws and regulation.
The “invisible” nature of interpreters’ roles means many of the challenges they face aren’t widely acknowledged.
If we’re going to genuinely improve behaviour and disruptions at school, we need to move from “fixing the blame” towards “fixing the problem”.
It’s still possible for Australia to cut emissions in line with holding climate change to 1.5°C, but only if we act quickly and seize the enormous opportunities offered in fast decarbonisation.
The deal is complex, and includes hostage-swaps and a dramatic increase in daily humanitarian aid and supplies. But is it also buying Hamas time to regroup?
The federal government’s announcement of $3.5 million to fund a healthy masculinities project trial is promising, but lacks detail on precisely how the funds will be used, and what will inform the programs.
In the final episode of season eight, “What Happens Next?” explores the importance of civility in a digital age, reminding us to recognise the humanity behind screens.
A new teaching program is aiming to develop the responsible decision-makers of tomorrow, ready to tackle some of the most pressing global challenges.
A new United Nations report, informed by Monash academic Bebe Loff’s research, offers a practical and evidence-based roadmap for preventing and helping eradicate femicides worldwide.
Research reveals the majority of teachers in Australia experience moderate to high levels of secondary trauma, characterised by symptoms of acute stress, feelings of helplessness, disturbed sleep, and intrusive thoughts.
Despite ongoing efforts to shift cultural thinking, coercive sexual behaviours and misunderstanding regarding consent remains a concerning social problem.
It might sound like difficult terrain, but ideas of nationhood can be progressive as well as regressive, and could help bind Australians ahead of the Voice referendum.
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