The spirit house as a cultural marker of respect and spiritual duty not only acts to appease and honour disturbed spirits, but is also an important expression of traditional land acknowledgement.
She’s brilliant at acknowledging local culture and using colloquial phrases to connect with her audiences. And she nailed it with “yeah-nah”.
There’s plenty of evidence showing how social media use can affect youth mental health, but studies often omit the developing countries of the global south.
A group of mostly white academics applauding the statement “I hate rap” diminishes the historical and socio-cultural contexts surrounding the form.
A new report highlights where more work needs to be done regarding migrant women working in Victorian local councils.
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.
Sexual and gender-minority people in Asia experience unique cultural stressors, and high levels of depression, but one type of therapy is holding promise.
Children’s books implicitly shape the minds of young readers – and are covertly censored in many ways. But revising occasional words won’t usually shift the values regarded as outdated in the text.
While each city building is part of an overall urban composition, its individual impacts are also important. Here are eight of Melbourne’s best.
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.
Why terminology matters when discussing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Why aren’t we creating more art about this metamorphic life stage experienced by half the population?
Despite Western perceptions of these flying mammals, in the East they’re associated with folklore and customs that are largely positive in nature.
Medicine's linguistic history in English is rich indeed, peppered with borrowings from French, but the Old English renderings retain a certain charm.
The Australian government can’t afford to neglect music and arts as an important tool in the classroom.
As we (hopefully) start to move out of the grip of the coronavirus pandemic, there's a variety of issues we need to retain in our conversations with, and about, men’s health.
Deferring to AI to give us what we like further diminishes culture at a societal scale, and cultural difference globally.
Rhetoric and hypocrisy can still be seen everywhere in the reconciliation space, and while protests are occurring across Australia in response to the #blacklivesmatter crisis in the US, we shouldn't ignore our own history.
Although women write more books than men, it remains easier for male authors to be published.
The surging popularity of more emotive language regarding climate change is indicative of public sentiment, but context must play its part.
The corporate high-performance, merchandise-heavy, social media-driven vision of surfing isn't one shared by many wave riders.
The current system of languages education in Australia that prioritises accuracy over fluency is doing students few favours.
Performance art gives voice to our sense of what it means to belong; our identity and cultural evolution.
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