The women proving old age isn’t a dreaded tragedy

Article published in The Age, written by Jewel Topsfield.Artist Mig Dann was 81 when she was awarded a PhD from the School of Art at RMIT University. Dann, who worked for David Bowie in Paris and New York in the 1970s, had been making sculptures for decades, but had...

A world without men

I can be in a safe place,” she told me as we drank sweet-potato lattes at a campus café. The most important thing, in her view, is the absence of men. “Always, when I use the word ‘safe place,’ it means the place for women.”

From the Prime Ministers Office

Read the latest Status of Women Report CardThe Government has kicked off public consultation on the National Strategy to Achieve Gender Equality. You can find: ―    The discussion paper HERE ―    The survey HERE ―    The response option for organisation HERE Also...

Financial abuse left me homeless and sleeping in my car

I had a successful career as a chef and never had trouble finding a job or a place to live. Stepping over homeless people to and from work, a hatted restaurant in Sydney, was my first introduction to homelessness but there’s so much more to it than meets the eye…

The Linkages Between Violent Misogyny…

The Linkages Between Violent Misogyny & Violent Extremism and Radicalisation that Leads to Terrorism   This policy brief is based on policy-focused research and interviews concerning the links between violent misogyny and violent extremism and radicalization...

Three Women Share The Horrifying Reality of Living Homeless In Australia

“No-one chooses to be homeless, I can tell you that." - by Michael Crooks (published by Marie Claire). Today, there are 49,000 women who are homeless across the nation, with no means or assistance to have a home of their own. Michael Crooks speaks to three women – all...

Update on Economic Equality

Has gender equality progressed? Australians have made progress towards gender equality as women continue to challenge historical norms and the business case for diversity, equity and inclusion strengthens. Despite this, women’s progress slipped back a gear in the...

‘Intergenerational Cycle of Violence’

‘Intergenerational Cycle of Violence’ Explained & How to Break It You might have watched some documentaries or crime series where experts try to find causal relationships between the person's delinquency in adolescence, their later involvement in criminal...

Misdiagnosing Intergenerational Trauma

Misdiagnosing Intergenerational Trauma Some children were being medicalised and pathologised at times when they needed trauma care, a conference in Dublin heard A seven year-old boy and his older sister (9), who watched their mother being bound and kept in a wardrobe...

THE CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF MIS-IDENTIFICATION

Culturally Diverse Victim-Survivors of Family Violence Often Charged Falsely, According to New Paper A new paper released by inTouch has highlighted the concerning and ongoing issue of mis-identification in response to family violence occurring within migrant and...