News & Views Should we be concerned by the pro-life movement in the Queensland parliament? Absolutely Despite being decriminalised six years ago, the topic of abortion was a key point of debate in the Queensland election.
News & Views More than one in ten high school students are queer. How can we better support LGBTQIA+ teenagers? More than one in ten teenagers in Australian high schools identify as part of the LGBTQIA+ community, new research has found.
News & Views ‘Full stop to sexual violence’: Full Stop Australia commemorates 50 years of operation Fifty years ago today, a group of volunteers gathered in a single room at the Sydney Women’s Liberation House in Glebe, to form the Sydney Rape Crisis Centre, now known as Full Stop Australia.
News & Views The biggest barrier to career progression for women? Invisibility A survey conducted by Women’s Agenda in partnership with Cultivate Sponsorship found invisibility at work was a key barrier to progession.
World Women-led online campaign to sanction Israel launches as humanitarian crisis in the Middle East worsens A women-led online campaign is calling on the Australian government to sanction Israel over the conflict in the Middle East, which is “tearing apart” human rights, press freedoms, healthcare and more.
News & Views There are now 27 women who have accused Donald Trump of sexual misconduct Stacey Williams is the 27th woman to accuse the former president of sexual misconduct. Her allegation comes one week ahead of the election.
Agenda Sports England Rugby will provide free period products across 500 clubs around the country More than 500 rugby clubs in England will offer free period products for women and girls in an effort to boost female participation in the male-dominated game.
World ‘A determination to change things’: Gisèle Pélicot testifies in court for the first time After two months of reliving a decade of abuse in a public trial in France with the world watching on, Gisèle Pélicot has testified in court.
News & Views ‘See the person, not the stereotype’: new campaign to combat ageism against women An online campaign has launched aiming to disrupt stereotypes surrounding older women in the workplace.
News & Views Justice Michael Lee found ‘Mr Lehrmann raped Ms Higgins’. Bruce Lehrmann is appealing this decision. Bruce Lehrmann will have the opportunity to appeal the Federal Court’s judgement from April that found, on the balance of probabilities, he raped Brittany Higgins in 2019.
News & Views Historic all-women team set to work on Victoria’s Suburban Rail Loop A Victorian government tunnel project will make history by recruiting the first ever all-women tunnel boring machine (TBM) team during the construction of the Suburban Rail Loop (SRL).
News & Views ‘You are not our king’: Senator Lidia Thorpe interrupts King Charles and Camilla welcome to Parliament House Lidia Thorpe was escorted from the Great Hall at Parliament House earlier today after the independent senator interrupted the reception of King Charles III and Queen Camilla.