While AI and robotics reshape our reality, experts explore how these emerging tools could be used to create a more equitable future – from healthcare breakthroughs to Indigenous-led innovation.
Data from the Australian Institute of Criminology shows alarmingly high rates of sexual violence perpetration.
Australian researchers urge prioritising evidence-based solutions and incorporating Indigenous experiences to tackle rising gender-based violence cases.
A new forensic tool was instrumental in identifying a drowning victim whose remains had lain submerged for 94 years.
While the actions outlined in the plans are admirable, achieving the set targets will require a significant increase in urgency and funding.
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?
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.
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.
The ruling could justify the future visa cancellation of any individual who is seen as a ‘role model’ and who may be perceived as causing social unrest.
Australia’s nuclear submarine agreement with the UK and US puts it on a dangerous and subservient path.
With more and more technology-driven crime, the tension between policing it and preserving the privacy of individuals is being writ large.
With so much recent focus on how women are treated, we need to look first at how we use language. And for a long time, it’s been used to belittle and silence women.
Since 1991, the overrepresentation of Aboriginal people in the criminal justice system has increased. There are three areas of reform that could start addressing the problem.
There are several past examples of federal cabinet ministers resigning or being sacked over unproven claims that they deny.
How big does the problem have to be before something is done about it?
Award-winning Monash graduate and News Corp journalist Annika Smethurst, became an unexpected champion for press freedom after the Australian Federal Police (AFP) raided her Canberra flat in June 2019.
Australia criminalised forced marriage in 2013, but the practice continues to rise, highlighted most recently by developments in the tragic case of Ruqia Haidari.
Governments will rely on taxation to repair the fiscal damage wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic, and that will likely mean a GST rise, even if there are better, but politically unpalatable, alternatives.
Racism shapes the war on drugs, and we can't make black lives truly matter without major law reforms.
Bystanders have never been more critical in combating family violence than during coronavirus restrictions and household isolation.
For some women and children, safely isolating at home will simply not be an option.
Examining the similarities and differences between Australian and Brazilian policies towards gender-based violence.
The pervasiveness of modern slavery might feel at times overwhelming, but our experts have the solutions.
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