For many thousands of Victorian parents, Saturday afternoon was spent contacting bosses, rearranging calendars and sending each other stress-face emojis. I know, because I was one of them. With...
Category: Equality
Designing our way out of gender inequality
Monash University’s intriguingly named “XYX Lab” - a team of design researchers exploring gender-sensitive design practices and theory – recently received a prestigious national prize in the...
Afghan women’s rights defenders gravely at risk
All week, civil society organisations have been frantically trying to pull together a list of Afghan women's human rights defenders they've worked with over the past decades to try and get the...
Our storytelling around fatherhood must change
I groan at the screen when I see my kids watching one of the typical portrayals of the ‘modern dad’. Perhaps the most common depiction is the well-intentioned, loving but equally clueless, hopeless...
“In front of our eyes, they beat my sister”
Content warning: This story contains graphic descriptions of violence against women. So many have asked me about the plight of women in Afghanistan. I am not going to cite statistics. I am not going...
Breaking the seal of my late onset feminism
He’s back! Harvey Weinstein, American film producer and convicted sex offender, was recently extradited from New York to LA where he faces 11 rape and sexual assault charges. He is also appealing...
Fair go? Why the national anthem is racist
As we say goodbye to another Olympics, there’s a sizeable section of the Australian population that might breathe sigh of relief about not having to sit through another rendition of our national...
LGBTIQ+ people ignored in the census again
“Do you know how many LGBTIQ+ folks live in Australia? It turns out no one does, and we’re not about to find out in the upcoming census.” Courtney Act, an Australian drag queen and television...
Why we deserve more from our politicians
Like so many other women, I am enraged that Christian Porter MP is acting leader of the House of Representatives. A position that is one of the most powerful in the country. It means that Porter is...