News & Views Girls Can’t Surf shows how determined women battled sexism in their sport A new documentary is an extraordinary window into the second-class treatment once endured by female surfers.
News & Views Even with a vaccine, we need to adjust our mindset to playing the COVID-19 long game With many more months of lockdowns, mask mandates and quarantining in our futures, we all need to manage our expectations.
Life How to prepare and protect your gut health over Christmas and the silly season If your gut is healthy to begin with, it’ll take more to knock it out of whack. Prepare yourself by making food choices that enhance gut health.
News & Views Hotel quarantine report blasts government failures, but political fallout is likely to be minimal The governmental failings in hotel quarantine that led to a second wave of the pandemic are likely to be politically irrelevant.
News & Views What pro sports should learn from resilient women athletes post-pandemic As the sports market reemerges in a post-pandemic world, women’s sport may be positioned to adapt to the changes brought about by COVID-19.
News & Views Christmas is a special time on the maternity ward. But it’s not all tinsel and mince pies This is what you can expect if you’re on the maternity ward this Christmas seasons, writes Hannah Dahlen, from Western Sydney University.
Women's Health News Vaccines alone won’t keep Australia safe in 2021. Here’s what else we need to do A new review says managing the pandemic into 2021 will mean persisting with the measures that have made Australia’s response successful so far.
News & Views Naby Mariyam’s career peaked in her twenties, so she got creative At 15, Naby Mariyam was at university. At 23, she arrived in Australia with a new baby. By her late 20s, her career in academia had peaked.
Partner Content ‘We need different people & skills working together’: Women in STEM on the lessons from an unprecedented year In Australia, a diversity of experts leading across health data and STEM; many of whom have contributed to our navigation of the pandemic.
News & Views What’s behind the gender imbalance in top-level chess? Women remain underrepresented in the world of chess, making up just 37 of 1600 international chess grandmasters, writes David Smerdon.
News & Views Who’s really behaving badly? Confronting Australia’s cashless welfare card Senators have granted a two-year extension to the cashless welfare card program for which there is little supporting evidence.
News & Views ‘Let 2020 be a turning point’: June Oscar AO releases landmark report on First Nations women and girls 2020 must be a turning point, says June Oscar AO, Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner.