Religious discrimination laws have been highly controversial in Australia in recent years. Here’s where they started, and where we are now.
Despite ongoing efforts over the past decade, there’s still a noticeable gap in getting women into these top roles in Malaysia’s private sector.
In assessing Scott Morrison’s prime ministership, several factors need to be taken into account. On many of them, his record is poor.
She’s brilliant at acknowledging local culture and using colloquial phrases to connect with her audiences. And she nailed it with “yeah-nah”.
Liars and fake news merchants are profiting from misinformation and disinformation in Indonesia. Can it be fixed?
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?
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.
Life insurance companies can legally use the results of genetic tests to decline coverage or increase premiums. MPs have called for legislation that bans this practice.
This Voice referendum slogan wasn’t about facts; it was about emotion. And it targeted some vulnerable groups we don’t talk about nearly enough.
As a federal government taskforce ponders how to improve the system, a new study focuses on nurses in two Victorian residential aged care homes, and how they feel about and operate in their workplaces.
Politicians have cynically used metaphor to imply meaning through language.
We need to move beyond whether cancel culture is good or bad, and understand in more nuanced terms what it means, especially given the political weaponising of it.
The platform’s handling of harmful content, including disinformation, hate speech and propaganda, has attracted widespread criticism.
Studying and working in an English-speaking environment as a non-native speaker poses several communication challenges.
A short Australian documentary is a refreshing celebration of “the ordinary” in the prevailing media narrative regarding transgender individuals in our society.
Has the toxic workplace culture within Parliament House improved at all, despite the groundbreaking Jenkins review?
As the Voice to Parliament referendum nears, the impact of what’s now known as the Anglosphere continues to have major implications for Australia’s domestic policy settings and institutionalised sense of self.
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.
The artform’s multi-dimensional nature, combined with concepts of abstraction, can provide a powerful way to think differently about the complex problems affecting us today.
Just as we have the country’s smartest legal minds on the High Court, and our best health practitioners setting vaccine policy, the review wants the best economists to set monetary policy.
Technological advancements such as machine learning offer hope in improving the efficiency of detecting – and preventing – harassing or intimidating online behaviour.
The rights of trans people have become a highly divisive political issue in the US and UK. Recent events underline how we must be proactive in ensuring Australia doesn’t mirror their transphobic environments.
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