Women's Agenda

Dr Julia Walsh has been appointed the first woman to coach a national men’s basketball team in Australia, taking up the position with the Boomerangs team.

It’s called parliament, Senator Larissa Waters responded in Senate Estimates, as Leyonhjelm persisted with a line of questioning about creating an ‘Office for Men’.

Check out our short video package from the 2018 Women’s Agenda Leadership Awards. 

Pictured above is the exact moment Jacinda Ardern found out she would be the next prime minister of New Zealand, taken by her partner Clarke Gayford.

Independent Kerryn Phelps has claimed Malcolm Turnbull’s former seat of Wentworth, ending the Coalition Government’s one-seat majority in Canberra.

Nineteenth century laws preventing women from legally accessing abortions in Queensland have finally been sent to the history books, with the state parliament voting to decriminalise pregnancy terminations.

Dr Nicole Montana, a senior medical officer for Australia’s immigration processing centre on Nauru, was arrested last night on the island.

Both sides of Parliament returned today, with schools, discrimination and the weekend’s Wentworth by-election hot on the agenda.

Popular astronomer and author of 40 scientific papers, Professor Lisa Harvey-Smith now has a new title, Australia’s first Women in STEM Ambassador.

Today is International Day of the Girl Child, aiming to highlight and address the challenges girls face globally and fulfillment of human rights.

It’s not just harmless cat-calling and wolf-whistles: Young women face harassment and abuse in cities here and across the world and the impact is real.

It can be empowering to make life changes — and these ones may ultimately boost your mood, reduce stress and help you manage your day-to-day mental health, write Jerome Sarris and Joe Firth from Western Sydney University in this piece republished from The Conversation.