Well before the floods hit the Northern Rivers of NSW, many people were already living precariously. The images of shattered men, women and children losing their homes from weatherboard...
Category: Poverty
Unpacking the cumulative inequality of Australian women
This year’s International Women’s Day theme of #BreakTheBias invited us all to imagine a world that’s free of inequality, bias and discrimination. While advocacy work has highlighted the deep-rooted...
Groundbreaking move to end period poverty
A few days ago people in Canberra awoke to the news that the ACT could be the first jurisdiction in Australia to provide free sanitary products in places like health facilities, public toilets,...
Blood on their hands: why menstruation can kill
Over summer, BroadAgenda is republishing some of its most popular articles. This one was first posted in 2020. When Libra’s #BloodNormal commercial aired on prime-time TV last year showing a woman...
Systemic pressures keep Joey ‘dirt poor’ and homeless
Joey King, a community services professional and student living with mental illness, details the systemic pressures that keep her ‘dirt poor’ and homeless. I googled the term “dirt poor”. I know it...