Premium Case studies In the trenches, winning the battle to reduce violence against women is a daily, brick-by-brick process Case studies Tracey Gaudry is the chief executive of Respect Victoria, a new agency with a challenging but vitally important task: primary prevention of all forms of…
How do young Australians see violence against women? Wednesday May 22, 2019 By Anastasia Powell and Kristin Diemer Culture Young Australians, particularly young men, don’t fully understand sexual consent. We need to continue to push for gender equality to change the harmful attitudes and…
Biology is partly to blame for high rates of mental illness in women – the rest is social Friday May 3, 2019 By Jayashri Kulkarni Editors' Picks Depression and anxiety are known to affect around one in five people, but depression occurs twice as often in women as in men. And when…
Gender equality and violence against women: separate conversations? Wednesday May 9, 2018 By Sue Williamson & Meraiah Foley Editors' Picks White Ribbon is an easy campaign to understand. The concept of gender equality more broadly, however, is less well articulated, and the path to achieving…
White Ribbon Day: violence against women is a workplace issue Friday November 24, 2017 By Stephen Easton News Public servants wear the White Ribbon at events around the country. The head of the APS thinks it is "delusional" to suggest this is not…
What the Harvey Weinstein case tells us about sexual assault disclosure Monday October 16, 2017 By The Conversation Features Victim-survivors face a wide range of barriers to disclosing their experiences, regardless of the context in which the assault occurred.
Issues paper: prevention of violence against women Thursday July 24, 2014 By The Mandarin Health Violence against women is a public health issue and should be managed from a policy perspective in the same way, a new issues paper argues.