Women's Agenda

As child-care centres close in Melbourne, the focus needs to be on what governments can do to cushion the impact on working parents.

Why doesn’t our memory serve us well in this pandemic? Anxiety may be one explanation, but another reason comes from the way our memory works.

Yasmin Poole, Tarla Lambert & youth activists Madhuraa Prakash, Imogen Senior and Kavindhya Almedia will share their vision for the future ahead.

The Queensland Human Rights Commission has urged against double standards and confirmed it’s been contacted by concerned members of Brisbane’s African migrant community who are already reporting abuse, after a number of media outlets named and shamed two young women accused of breaching COVID-19 restrictions.

New Closing the Gap targets have been welcomed by both sides of government, but with some disappointment on lack of funding.

Research shows one in five Australian women experience degrading content online. This is not ‘harmless’ or ‘normal’, writes Louise Richardson-Self.

Victoria has recorded 723 positive COVID-19 tests and, tragically, another 13 deaths, including ten connected to the aged care sector.

Could the federal government have done more to erect a firewall to protect the vulnerable people in these aged care institutions which come under its regulation?

Biden’s pick for vice president is the first “presidential” decision he will make in his campaign. It will say a lot about his presidency if he wins.

Hundreds of Australian children aged ten to 13 are in juvenile detention. Legal and medical experts say we must raise the age of criminal responsibility to 14.

Girls are at risk of gender-based violence, child marriage and forced marriage, according to Plan International and Save the Children.

The JobKeeper payment will be reduced from September but extended until March 2021, while the JobSeeker payment will be reduced from September.