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...
Category: Feature
BroadTalk with Biff Ward
What do those aging women’s Libbers make of the March4Justice movement? And how does Australia’s current explosion of feminist activity connect to our past? Writer and activist, Biff Ward is one of...
Show me the numbers! Disaggregated gender data
We cannot solve problems we do not understand, argues Ramona Vijeyarasa. In the final article of this 3-part series, exclusive to BroadAgenda, Dr Vijeyarasa, the lead scholar behind the Gender...
Cabinet reshuffle falls short on equality
With last week’s cabinet reshuffle, the Morrison Government was hoping to reset, recasting its blokey, accident-prone blundering about the safety and security of women inside and outside Parliament...
Women will not be silenced again
The Minister for Families and Social Services, Anne Ruston, is right. There is “a rot in society”. But Scott Morrison is wrong. Anointing a “prime minister for women”, even as a joke, and creating a...
BroadTalk with Janine Hendry
How does a woman, single-handedly, start a social movement in 2 weeks that brings over 100,000 people onto the streets to rally? And has Australia’s March4Justice unleashed a public roar against...
Gender responsive legislation: Equal Opportunity Act
Can good law reduce the gender gap, or does it need to go hand in hand with awareness-raising around the law's core intent and purpose? In Part 2 of this...
The silver bullet! Gender-responsive legislation
The goal of gender equality is far from reached in Australia, so what next? In this timely and excellent 3-part series exclusive to BroadAgenda Ramona Vijeyarasa, the lead scholar behind the Gender...
Where are women’s voices on the Middle East in Australia?
Why do men still do so much of the talking, for women? Although the terminology is relatively recent, ‘mansplaining’ was first identified way back in Homer’s Odyssey, some 3000 years ago, as that...