New research has revealed persistent barriers that continue to thwart the political ambitions of young women from standing for election.
In assessing Scott Morrison’s prime ministership, several factors need to be taken into account. On many of them, his record is poor.
As Closing the Gap policy failures are laid bare in the Productivity Commission’s latest report, a new study aims to quantify the gap in Indigenous mental health and economic insecurity.
2023 was a watershed year for women’s reproductive rights in Australia, but the cost of contraception and abortion services remains too high.
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?
A group of mostly white academics applauding the statement “I hate rap” diminishes the historical and socio-cultural contexts surrounding the form.
If there’s proof needed that something needs changing, it’s surely the furtive cry we hear to “close the gap”.
It might sound like difficult terrain, but ideas of nationhood can be progressive as well as regressive, and could help bind Australians ahead of the Voice referendum.
If the Voice referendum is lost on 14 October, the Prime Minister will have to confront some diabolically difficult challenges, and quickly pivot to the role of healer-in-chief.
Australia has leapt to 26th in the 2023 World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report, but we’re still behind countries such as New Zealand and Rwanda.
Jacinta Walsh’s great grandmother navigated oppressive policies her entire life, and didn’t have a public voice. Now, however, through the family’s storytelling, she does.
In a new book, Melissa Castan and Professor Lynette Russell write that the proposed Voice to Parliament will enhance, not damage, our democratic institutions.
On 14 October, it’s our civic responsibility to make an informed decision about the referendum question regarding the Voice to Parliament.
If implemented, the recommendations of Australia’s online gambling inquiry will advance regulation by several orders of magnitude.
Existing research evidence suggests the hegemony of neoliberal measures within Australian welfare policy has resulted in higher, not lower, levels of social and economic injustice.
Has the toxic workplace culture within Parliament House improved at all, despite the groundbreaking Jenkins review?
New research shows Indigenous women experiencing intimate partner violence had engaged with police to help them. However, many didn’t receive the support that potentially could have saved their lives.
We should celebrate the fact this bill is passing through parliament. It shows the government has responded to insistent calls for change to protect families. However, there are two key concerns.
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.
No one can say Australian sport is worse off without tobacco ads. We can protect a new generation of young sports fans from harm by following other nations’ leads and phasing out gambling ads.
Human rights legislation is a normal part of living in a modern democratic country, but Australia still doesn’t have a legal framework that supports everyone living here.
Leaving behind the troubled city of Jakarta isn’t a new development in Indonesia’s history.
This week, Monash University's “What Happens Next?” podcast investigates how making reproductive healthcare inaccessible hurts us all.
If we’re to effectively tackle the critical challenge of climate change, we urgently need a better and more coordinated global transformation to environmentally-friendly economies.
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