Misogyny and violence against women are social issues, and require a social response, not a punitive one.
Kamala Harris has reinvigorated the Democratic ticket and inspired the voters they need most – women, African-Americans and youth. But it’s not all smooth sailing.
While there have been moves to making voting optional in Australia, voters have consistently expressed their support for it being compulsory.
Parents need to understand how algorithms work. These can drive misogynistic content towards boys and young men, and can make extreme views seem normal.
Australian researchers urge prioritising evidence-based solutions and incorporating Indigenous experiences to tackle rising gender-based violence cases.
To counter some of the harmful influences of Andrew Tate and others, we need long-term, critical, and transformational approaches embedded within both curricula and school cultures.
New research has revealed persistent barriers that continue to thwart the political ambitions of young women from standing for election.
With the major awards season over, 2024 is becoming the year for women in music, but a lack of information and knowledge about sexual violence in music spaces and other creative places can dampen this newfound visibility.
In assessing Scott Morrison’s prime ministership, several factors need to be taken into account. On many of them, his record is poor.
This Voice referendum slogan wasn’t about facts; it was about emotion. And it targeted some vulnerable groups we don’t talk about nearly enough.
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.
The new premier has a great deal of experience in politics, but inherits the premiership with the state facing a series of major economic problems.
Politicians have cynically used metaphor to imply meaning through language.
Discover how music, fiction and other creative works can offer solace and foster empathy amid the complexities of climate change.
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.
Has the toxic workplace culture within Parliament House improved at all, despite the groundbreaking Jenkins review?
Fijian youth are combining modern science with traditional knowledge to develop innovative responses to the immediate threat posed by climate change.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has used words with specific meanings in the objective he intends to legislate, among them “preserve”, “dignified”, “equitable” and “sustainable”.
This week, Monash University's “What Happens Next?” podcast investigates how making reproductive healthcare inaccessible hurts us all.
About 10% of Australian women experience early menopause before the age of 45, yet it's an aspect of women's health to which state and federal governments pay little more than lip service.
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.
The Likud leader looks set to return as Israel’s prime minister after a period of political instability in the country – and five elections in less than four years.
Rishi Sunak is the first person of colour to take the top post, but he faces a host of problems at home – as well as a Conservative Party tearing itself apart.
The large-scale protests across Iran are a culmination of everything that’s gone wrong with the country since the 1979 revolution.
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