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.
School-leavers want flexibility and gig work offers it. But how will that affect the economy?
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?
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.
While capital skills don’t necessarily translate into job offers for international students, research shows they improve key wellbeing, sustainability, and professional growth aspects.
The Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) has kept poverty and inequality on the policy agenda.
For employers to feel confident hiring individuals who graduated from their course in the 2020s, they need to be convinced of their job-worthiness.
How we get the balance right between using social media to hold people to account versus the risk of invading people’s privacy depends on the context, of course, and is ultimately about power.
The current draft still includes a range of provisions overriding federal, state and territory laws to allow for discrimination.
Find out how privilege and disparate levels of access to basic resources such as education are contributing to social inequality in Australia – threatening the egalitarian ideals of 'the land of the fair go’.
The significance of a positive state of mind for survival is well-documented. In a COVID-19 world, it can also help motivate us to shape a better alternative future.
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.
A decision to extend out-of-home care to 21 years of age will significantly advance the life opportunities for many of Victoria’s most vulnerable young people.
During this time of massive social upheaval, Monash sociologists explore how various community groups are faring.
Bystanders have never been more critical in combating family violence than during coronavirus restrictions and household isolation.
The urgency of the risks and issues facing women on temporary visas is dangerously heightened by COVID-19.
The spread of misinformation has striking parallels with the biological pandemic – and it, too, has cost lives.
Now that endometriosis is getting the attention it warrants, it's time for action to improve the lives of those affected.
Even as the women’s liberation movement and campaigns for equal pay in Australia grew in the '60s, females were being marginalised in trade media.
Will the rise of algorithmic decision-making and AI threaten the essential elements of being human?
Clinicians need the training and support to provide better comprehensive healthcare for women with endometriosis.
Sustainability and ethical production are becoming central to fashion design and manufacturing.
Missing from the debate about "ethnic gangs" are the voices of young people from the South Sudanese community.
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