She’s already achieved numerous accolades, including publishing more than 40 scientific papers, but astronomer Professor Lisa Harvey-Smith now has a new title: Australia’s first Women in S…
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Why are the women’s bathrooms always out of the way?
My company works all over Australia, providing advanced driver training courses to teenagers, mostly for school groups of Year 11 and 12 students. This involves travelling to work with these young dri…
This medical emergency requires an immediate response as doctors call for urgent Nauru action
Dr Neela Janakiramanan and Dr Sara Townend have been working on a grassroots campaign calling to urgently evacuate critically ill children and families from Nauru. Within weeks they have collected the…
Dealing with waste, stuff, overconsumption & saving the planet: Latest podcast
Our latest Women’s Agenda podcast is away, this week featuring a conversation that’s all about saving the planet and the small actions we can take to reduce our impact on the planet. Natal…
‘They have no hope’: Psychiatrist Beth O’Connor on MSF’s call for immediate Nauru evacuation
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) psychiatrist Beth O’Connor has shared the horror of what she’s witnessed on Nauru, during a press conference in which the humanitarian group called for the &…
‘I believe in quotas’: How Branson (with business) is driving social change
Corporate social responsibility is not a term our grandparents would have been familiar with. For them, the role of business and government would have been utterly distinct. Big business would have ac…
The new ways workplaces are responding to sexual harassment & the work that still needs to be done
Employment lawyer Mia Pantechis says that the fight to end sexual harassment in Australian workplaces is far from over, but the #MeToo movement has kickstarted change. A year ago, the #MeToo hashtag …
