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The ripple effects of violence against women and children Violence against women and children is a problem of epidemic proportions in Australia. The ripple effects of violence against women and children have been outlined in the National Plan to End Violence Against Women and Children 2022 – 2032 as: Victim survivors • Intimate partner homicide […]

Excellent reforms have been instituted by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) to accelerate workplace gender equality in Australia, enabled by legislative amendments Reforms will improve transparency, accountability & action on gender equality in workplaces. The Albanese Government is taking action to improve workplace gender equality, with the gender pay gaps for nearly 5,000 Australian

Dr Diann Rodgers-Healey 14 February 2024 As we bear witness to the suffering and killing of children and women in Gaza, we also bear witness to world leaders who are unwilling to use their power to stop the killing and suffering of innocent civilians in Gaza. Leaders continue to  “demand,” “caution,” “push very hard,” “warn,”

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19 JANUARY 2024 Following the 7 October 2023 brutal attack by Hamas on Israel, and the ensuing Israeli military bombardment of Gaza, UN Women has worked to analyse the differentiated impact on women, men, boys, and girls, to ensure adequate responses to their needs. In Israel, the October 7 attack killed some 1,200 people, including

Fulfilling science’s promise for gender equality Despite progress in women’s education, a persistent gender gap exists across all levels of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) globally. According to the United Nations, only one in five professionals in cutting-edge fields like artificial intelligence is a woman. Despite the demand for skills in Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies,

The Spotlight Initiative is an EU/UN partnership, and a global, multi-year initiative focused on eliminating all forms of violence against women and girls – the world’s largest targeted effort to end all forms of violence against women and girls. Spotlight Initiative is working with governments, civil society organizations, the media and other partners to eliminate all

Social and affordable housing in Australia Excerpts from The State of the Nation’s Housing 2021–22 states: The National Housing Finance and Investment Corporation (NHFIC) was established in June 2018 under the National Housing Finance and Investment Corporation Act 2018. NHFIC calculates housing need as those in significant rental stress (defined as those in the lowest

Today marks six years since the invitation of the Uluru Statement from the Heart was issued to the Australian people. The Uluru Statement represents an unprecedented historic First Nations consensus position on the form of recognition being a First Nations Voice enshrined in the Constitution, and then through Voice, Makarrata: the coming together of Australian

  Is there a better way to call a government to account other than shouting out and decrying bad policy and behaviour with the hope that eventually citizens will influence change? In the lead up to the 2022 Australian Federal Election to elect members of the 47th Parliament of Australia, calling to account the incumbent

On Aug. 15, 2021, two weeks before the U.S. military was to complete its withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Taliban entered Kabul and captured the capital as the culmination of a weeklong offensive in which the hardline Islamist movement rapidly seized control over most of the country, sometimes with barely a fight. A few days later,

Axe childcare activity test & extend single parent payment, introduce super on paid parental leave, Women’s Economic Equality Taskforce led by Sam Mostyn to recommend. The task force was set up in September 2022 to provide advice to the federal government on improving gender equality. Policy change will remove structural barriers for women & advance

There has been unprecedented attention at the national and state level over the last decade on improving and reforming responses to domestic, family and sexual violence across Australia. Significant national evidence comprising the views and experiences of 1261 Australian victim-survivors of Domestic and Family Violence points to the need to criminalise coercive and controlling behaviours

Outgoing Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins: “We are on the precipice of change” Kate Jenkins became the nation’s Sex Discrimination Commissioner in 2016. Her purpose is to advance gender equality and the rights of LGBTIQ+ communities, consistent with the Sex Discrimination Act and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.

ACLW welcomes the Workplace Gender Equality Amendment (Closing the Gender Pay Gap) Bill 2023 being passed by Federal Parliament today. Thanks to the Albanese government and especially to Senator Katy Gallagher, Minister for Women for this significant reform. Employers can no longer keep gender pay gaps confidential. From early 2024 gender pay gaps of employers

Melanie Hawkes started writing in 2019 and enjoys flash fiction and poetry. She also makes art with bottle tops and other found items, and enjoys pyrography (wood burning). She joined the Society of Women Writers Western Australia in 2020 and has been published in their yearly anthologies since. She hopes to write her memoir one