Once a celebration of progress, World Pride 2025 became a rallying cry against rising global attacks on LGBTIQA+ rights – and a call for united resistance.
If you’re among the three million Australians with a HECS-HELP debt, it’s about to be cut by 20%, with no repayments until you earn $67,000. But there is one downside.
Sustained heat takes it out of you, quite literally. Researchers have found heat accelerates ageing by changing how our bodies switch genes off and on.
Superbugs — when bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites evolve to resist the effects of medications — are growing faster than many people realise.
The campaign for the Senate may fly under the radar over the next few weeks, but who is elected to it will have a massive impact on Australian politics.
Four women share their personal experiences, challenges, and aspirations working in STEM.
Pride is about celebration, but also about fighting for visibility, justice, and equality. On Sunday in Melbourne, more than 7000 flew the flag for the LGBTIQA+ community.
Most Australians might expect more mental health services to be delivered to those who need them the most, which would be many in the lowest-income areas. We found the opposite occurs.
Monash's award-winning podcast, “What Happens Next?”, returns for a ninth season that explores pressing global issues including reality in the digital age, climate change in the Indo-Pacific region and the ongoing struggle to eliminate gender-based violence.
The tragic deaths of two First Nations women highlight systemic failings, and the urgent need for a Human Rights Act in Australia.
New research indicates living with daughters can help lower gender wellbeing inequality in old age. But it also hints at the enduring influence of culture.
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?
The United Nations predicts 340 million women and girls will be living in extreme poverty by 2030, but we can change this.
The rise of influencer culture has been meteoric, but what’s going on behind the selfie stick? And what does it have to do with gender dynamics?
On 14 October, it’s our civic responsibility to make an informed decision about the referendum question regarding the Voice to Parliament.
If the world genuinely wants to reach some semblance of “sustainable development”, it needs to start listening more to the concerns of youth and marginalised populations.
Could our fascination with objectivity be the Pied Piper that led us to develop a machine some of us now fear and avoid?
A response of bigotry or hatred is common for people identifying as an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person, just as it is for people coming out as gay, bi, trans or queer.
A constitutionally enshrined Indigenous Voice to Parliament would demonstrate that Australia is a mature nation, but misinformation is muddying the waters.
This week on Monash University’s ‘What Happens Next?’ podcast, a live panel of experts in Australian politics and gender discuss the issues around gender equality and women's safety.
Drongos, dickheads and ning-nongs: Why Australia is a nation of nongs, but mightn’t be for long.
We need not just an acknowledgement of children as victim-survivors in their own right, but a commitment to boost resourcing of child-centred recovery support.
The teeth of the tammar wallaby don’t grow in the way you’d expect – and scientists want to know why.
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