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Shifts in Ideologies Matter, Beyond a Political Party’s Identity Dr Diann Rodgers-Healey Former Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull The sudden painful political annihilation of Malcolm Turnbull, former Prime Minister and Leader...
More voices are needed to bring about increasing the Newstart Rate. Please consider some of the reasons and add your voice to the Australian Council of Social Service's Call to the...
https://womensagenda.com.au/latest/eradicate-sexual-harassment-in-workplaces/ Dr Diann Rodgers-Healey Recent workplace sexual harassment revelations by many women sharing their stories abroad and in Australia have woken hearts and minds to the pain, indignity, injustice and wide-reaching impacts of...
Dr Diann Rodgers-Healey, Director, The Australian Centre for Leadership for Women (ACLW) In her concession speech on Wednesday, Hillary Clinton said, “I know we have still not shattered that highest and...
The five National Women’s Alliances have come together to encourage women to use their votes in the 2016 Federal election. It’s important that women’s voices are heard in this election.We...
By Diann Rodgers-Healey Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull with his new female cabinet ministers. Picture: AFP As Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s new Cabinet begins, there is much excitement in the air...
By Diann Rodgers-Healey As worldwide displacement hits an all time high due to wars, conflict and persecution, the Australian government recently highlighted its record of stopping the boats and being...
https://www.womensagenda.com.au/talking-about/opinions/understanding-the-power-of-a-woman Recently the association of ‘Women’ and ‘Power’ has emerged in Former Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s advice to Hillary Clinton and other women in power where she pointed out that...
The Conversation is an independent source of analysis, commentary and news from the university and research sector. Rodgers-Healey, D. (28 July 2014) We must do better to curb discrimination against...
Disability Discrimination Commissioner, Graeme Innes, earlier this week addressed a full house at a Human Rights Commission event, RightsTalk: Balancing the Scales of Justice. “Australians who need communications supports, or who...
Gina Glantz started genderavenger.com with an idea born out of frustration and in hope as she reflected how many instances of women being absent from or underrepresented in the public arena were reported. The occurrence of...
Research has highlighted that remedying the gender gap can be addressed by addressing gender based direct and indirect discrimination so that assumptions are not made about the industries, careers, positions...
In its 2011 multicultural policy, the Australian Government committed to develop and implement a National Anti-Racism Strategy. The Strategy has been developed through a partnership led by the Australian Human Rights...
The Australian Council of Social Service has released new analysis revealing that people on low and middle incomes will carry the overwhelming burden of repairing the federal Budget. "Our analysis...
The Age ~ Melbourne ~ Saturday March 8 2014 By Suzy Freeman-Greene Today is International Women's Day. A year ago, on this day, we had a female prime minister and...
This article by Dr Diann Rodgers-Healey was first published at Women's Agenda on 3 March 2014 The Financial Review reported recently that the Abbott Government is considering changing gender reporting requirements...
Leanne Evans, Australian Womensport and Recreation Association (AWRA)’s Executive Officer joined other representatives from the Equality Rights Alliance, Australia’s largest network of 64 organisations advocating for women’s equality, to state the case that supporting...
The Sydney Morning Herald, 25 January 2014 How can we ease the way, for Australia's next female PM? By Leslie Cannold This weekend marks six months since Julia Gillard stepped...
Did you know that October 11 is the "Day of the Girl Child”?On 19 December 2011, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 66/170 to declare 11 October as the International Day...
Would business tolerate the Abbott cabinet gender imbalance? It would be wrong to think that gender equality in the workplace is still elusive. Even if the Abbott government’s Cabinet, with its sole...