Ed’s Blog

This popped up a few times in my Facebook feed yesterday, almost always accompanied by expletives we don’t usually use at Women’s Agenda  It’s a fairly common trope on a slow news day, the latest thing science has discovered that might increase your risk of cancer.

November 19 was International Men’s day, if you knew that you almost certainly heard about it last March.

The cost of domestic violence can’t be measured in dollars.

After accusations of sexual harassment and misconduct in the Defence force in 2011 the Minister for Defence asked the Australian Human Rights Commission to conduct a review of the ADF’s treatment of women.

Women are told to change a lot of things about how we behave in the workplace.

Next year will be a significant milestone for women’s education, with 2016 marking the final year men outnumbered women in higher education.

Timing is a weird thing.

The nationwide sense of relief that we’re (mostly) no longer subjected to Tony Abbott’s malapropisms, thoughtless slogans and race-baiting is understandable, but that doesn’t mean we should get too comfortable.

The impetus that drives social social change is rarely simple logic, it is fuelled by passionate dedication to correcting injustice.

“I haven’t see you for ages, how are you?” “Mmfft, I’m ok, just hanging on until the end of the year, only [insert number] weeks to go.

Misinterpretation, damn misinterpretation and statistics.

Anyone who tells you they have never made a mistake at work is lying.