New research indicates living with daughters can help lower gender wellbeing inequality in old age. But it also hints at the enduring influence of culture.
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.
Language has been dubbed “the covert operations of war”, such is the power it holds in shaping public opinion. Here’s what we found about the way Australian media has been framing the conflict.
A group of mostly white academics applauding the statement “I hate rap” diminishes the historical and socio-cultural contexts surrounding the form.
As we wait for global leaders to convene and chart the future course for the world’s population of eight billion, we can take proactive steps to protect health from climate change through multifaceted and sustained efforts that transcend the confines of net zero.
The rise of influencer culture has been meteoric, but what’s going on behind the selfie stick? And what does it have to do with gender dynamics?
How far are Australians on the sustainability journey, and what are their attitudes and behaviours when it comes to engaging in sustainable practices and consumption?
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.
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?
Health status is more complex than just your address. At a population level, the biggest predictor of health status is the social determinants of health. We need to think outside the box to determine who needs care most, and how it can be delivered.
A four-year study of households has shown how the increasing focus on our homes as sites of work, rest and play can increase energy use despite soaring prices.
There’s an urgent need to recalibrate the mental healthcare sector so it better-serves those most in need.
It's time for the chatter to stop, and for effective interventions to be put in place.
The Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) has kept poverty and inequality on the policy agenda.
The large-scale protests across Iran are a culmination of everything that’s gone wrong with the country since the 1979 revolution.
New research that shows men and boys feel hostility, resentment, fear and jealousy when social norms are challenged call into question how we currently frame campaigns based on respect.
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted many of us, but a group that’s been severely affected are those living with disabilities in poverty.
Social factors can determine how likely you are to suffer from dementia, including your socioeconomic status, where you live, and your background.
New research reveals that more than half of all Australians have experienced technology-facilitated abuse.
For employers to feel confident hiring individuals who graduated from their course in the 2020s, they need to be convinced of their job-worthiness.
Gang rape, sexual assaults at gunpoint, and rapes committed in front of children were among some of the accounts emerging from Ukraine’s capital Kyiv last month.
A new report provides a snapshot of a changing Australia, and highlights areas that undermine our unity, wellbeing, and opportunity to have a “fair go”.
The Coalition’s Super Home Buyer Scheme benefits property developers, not the young trying to enter the property market.
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