Victoria has announced new teaching resources to tackle the influence of “manosphere” figures among students, but we still don’t have a clear picture of sexism and harassment in our schools.
A United Nations report details the violence that women and girls in sport face around the world – including Australia.
It’s been an effective tool used to sometimes “take down” the powerful, rich and popular. But at its worst, its righteous outrage has ruined people’s lives for a simple mistake.
Cancelling Crown’s licence would have sent a very clear message that no entity is too big to fail. The achievement of effective regulation, including effective protection for vulnerable people, remains some way off.
Religious discrimination laws have been highly controversial in Australia in recent years. Here’s where they started, and where we are now.
If we’re going to genuinely improve behaviour and disruptions at school, we need to move from “fixing the blame” towards “fixing the problem”.
Instilling values of respect and tolerance can contribute to fostering a more joyful, inclusive, and equitable school environment.
When you buy seafood, you can’t be sure it is what it says it is – and Australian wholesalers are resistant to new traceability technologies.
Adolescence is a sensitive developmental window filled with vulnerabilities, but there are important ways adults can help in this critical self-discovery journey.
Post-COVID, teachers have reported student behaviour appears to be getting worse, with students more distracted and less engaged than before the pandemic.
Technological advancements such as machine learning offer hope in improving the efficiency of detecting – and preventing – harassing or intimidating online behaviour.
Local councils are the best level of government to protect sports-playing children from pervasive and harmful abuse, harassment, and discrimination.
The large-scale protests across Iran are a culmination of everything that’s gone wrong with the country since the 1979 revolution.
Fixing the culture of individual casino operators is one thing. Fixing the political culture that allowed them to run amok is another.
Creating opportunities for all women and addressing unsafe political culture is critical to increasing migrant women’s political engagement in Australia.
Current medical programs need to diversify their curriculums by at least incorporating resources for medical students to look after their mental health, deal with pressures at work, and even career change.
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women has achieved a great deal in the past 40 years, but there remains more work to do in Australia.
Global private equity company Blackstone is in the box seat to pick up a battered Crown – but it’s hardly getting a bargain.
Until sporting organisations rectify their structural racism problems, players like the former Yorkshire cricketer will be forced to work in unwelcome and unsafe environments.
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.
The four main contributors to poor mental health in older women include illness and disability, financial insecurity, maltreatment, and loss and grief.
Addiction and problematic drug use is mostly a result of social disadvantage and personal trauma.
A new collection of essays describes a political arena in which the structural and cultural barriers facing women are contradictory and self-defeating.
In light of parliamentary staff facing problems when making complaints, we can learn from reform in the United Kingdom.
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