Ongoing public discussion about violence against women in Australia has increased attention on the way women are portrayed in the news media. The Digital News Report: Australia 2021 finds that...
Category: Equality
Too Much Icing and So Little Cake….
Like the budget before it, the 2021-22 Budget held out the promise of structural reform to address gender equality. Disappointedly, it delivered yet another missed opportunity for...
Farewell BroadAgenda
The wonderful thing about saying goodbye and packing up an office, are the hours of discovery! As I've prepared to leave my role today as Chief Editor of BroadAgenda and founding Director of the...
Commission on the Status of Women – who is left out of the digital frame?
Every month is busy for feminist advocates and activists. The work never stops. But the month of March is when the rest of the world, along with mainstream media, turn fleeting attention to gender...
For young women Amanda Gorman climbs a hill
National youth poet laureate Amanda Gorman’s recitation of “The Hill We Climb,” at Joe Biden’s presidential inauguration in the United States captured the attention of a nation and people globally....
The Drug War, Women & Leadership in the Philippines
President Duterte is a self-declared womaniser, who can also lay claim to bouts of feminist policy. But, on the face of it, such apparent contradiction is not isolated when it comes to women,...