policy

As 2025 comes to a close, we’re looking back at some of the biggest news in women’s health, across research, funding and policy reform

The Coalition’s retreat from net zero by 2050 reveals a disregard for what women actually want — stronger action on climate change.

Young people want Australia to take climate change seriously, especially after losing the COP31 bid with the Pacific.

We have drawn a poverty line into the architecture of our cities. We have made shame a design choice in our housing.

This week, reports emerged of an apartment complex in Sydney requiring affordable housing tenants to enter from a separate entrance.

Labor’s aged care reform was meant to fix systemic failures but instead leaves older Australians burdened, vulnerable, and overlooked.

Why Melbourne-based law firm Legalite is rewriting the workplace rulebook on fertility and reproductive health.

Parents may no longer have to be subject to the controversial “activity test” to determine their eligibility for childcare subsidies.

Centring marginalised communities in policy-making doesn’t just produce better outcomes, it saves their lives.

The Greens have announced a policy to support women-led businesses, generating more employment opportunities for women and boosting economic support.

We only need to look to the pandemic, women’s safety and climate change to see the government’s spectacular failure in policy courage.

Puerto Rico has declared a state of emergency over violence against women, after years of gender-based violence and murders.