Housing affordability, employment and climate change are weighing heavily on young people, according to the 2024 Australian Youth Barometer.
Making the wrong decision about how to access care can impact both your health and finances. So what are your options? And what policy reforms are needed to improve affordable access to healthcare?
The pictures men in paid care work are painting of work in the disability sector versus work in aged care are astonishingly different.
MyMedicare is a new voluntary scheme that allows patients to register with their usual GP. How will it work? And how might it benefit patients? Here’s what we know so far.
There’s really no such thing as one global internet – it all depends on your perspective. But the internet is poised to fracture even more.
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.
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.
Barriers to the engagement of women in peace operations can sustain harmful workplace cultures, scuttle gender equality, and even peace outcomes.
For Dr Anton Isaacs, initial thoughts of surgery specialisation turned into a 20-year journey that’s taken him into the heart of vulnerable communities in Australia and India.
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 first Labor budget in nine years, delivered against a grim economic backdrop, contains few surprises as it charts Australia's way through uncertain times and high-cost hazards.
The Australian Greens, rather than the Labor Party, have emerged as the champions of the contemporary Australian welfare state.
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.
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.
Last week on Monash University's "What Happens Next?" podcast, our guest experts served up some unappetising truths about weight loss. In today’s episode, host Dr Susan Carland continues the conversation by asking the things you’ve always wanted to know about weight but have been too afraid to ask.
Australian fatherhood remains closely tied to “breadwinning”. History helps us to understand why.
Nepali temporary migrants have been acutely affected by the COVID pandemic due to their concentration in casualised, precarious work in the healthcare, hospitality and services industries.
While the pandemic has been a blow to women’s rights, new forms of engagement are opening avenues for women to make their voices heard.
In this episode of the What Happens Next? podcast, our investigation looks into the future of the gig economy.
How do we smooth the transition for young people leaving out-of-home care?
What happens if we fail to reshape our economy post-COVID, and continue to rely on gig workers? Are there any advantages to the system?
Superannuation helps fund homeownership, and homeownership helps retirees get the pension.
While all Australians have been affected by the pandemic, there’s clear evidence of an asymmetry along gender lines.
COVID-19 has highlighted what's possible when the collective will exists to mobilise attention and healthcare resources – something the slow emergence of chronic disease could not.
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