The Sensory Science concept grew from the aim to “bring the beauty of the microscope to life for the low-vision and blind community”, and make science more accessible.
A parliamentary committee has recommended a dedicated act to protect human rights. Here’s how it could work.
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.
The pictures men in paid care work are painting of work in the disability sector versus work in aged care are astonishingly different.
A unified approach from journalism scholars in the Global North and Global South is needed to promote more gender-sensitive, solutions-driven, and victim-survivor-centred reporting about violence against women.
An innovative joint initiative is continuing to break down the barriers that prevent young people from playing community sport.
A new report shows it’s high time that governments, both in Australia and overseas, invested in specific, credentialed training programs for professionals working with deafblind people.
Australia has moved from a laggard to a global leader in leaving care policy and practice, but further work is required to broadly address three major areas.
These tips can help children who are feeling anxious about the transition to school, or going back after the holidays.
The uncomfortable truths that make some disability inclusion barriers so hard to shift, leaving structural inequity entrenched.
Missing in the discussion about low writing achievement among students is the impact of writing disabilities such as dysgraphia.
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.
The October 2022 budget marks a departure from the “blokier” budgets of recent years, centring gender equality and the care economy rather than high-vis and hard hats.
The gendered impacts of pregnancy and early parenthood don’t just impact women prior to the start of paid work, but during their university studies.
Low pay rates, a lack of career structure, supervision and mentoring is putting pressure on the disability workforce, with some NDIS participants not having their most basic care needs met.
A new project is shining a light on gender inequalities in the Australian jazz and improvisation sector.
Single Australian women over 60 are the most likely to live in poverty, earning less than $30,000 a year, and it's taking a heavy emotional toll, with mental distress on the rise.
Monash Education celebrates the stories of five people nominated by senior leadership for their work in #breakingthebias both at work and home.
Inclusive education must go beyond simply including children with disability in a space, as there’s often an invisible door that hinders a true sense of belonging.
The 2021 Australian Youth Barometer, a survey of more than 500 young Australians aged 18 to 24, reflects the pressures young Australians have been under during COVID-19.
Find out how privilege and disparate levels of access to basic resources such as education are contributing to social inequality in Australia – threatening the egalitarian ideals of 'the land of the fair go’.
The four main contributors to poor mental health in older women include illness and disability, financial insecurity, maltreatment, and loss and grief.
Researchers say professional services must be proactive, and provide targeted prevention and intervention initiatives to children and parents living with parental mental illness.
There are three measures for assessing whether public policy is successful, and the Coalition has been found wanting on all three. But there’s one policy area that’s an even bigger disaster.
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