Category: BroadAgenda

A parliamentary inquiry is looking at Question Time – the part of every sitting day that feels like a kindergarten gone feral, only worse. Rude, sexist, antagonistic, angry – Question Time undermines trust in politicians and democracy while acting as a very strong disincentive for women to join the political

Women at the centre of #MeToo allegations could find that new defamation laws designed to give the media more freedom in publishing sexual harassment stories could be highly detrimental to them.

A curated list of the week’s best journalism and writing about gender and equality.

Dame Annette King is someone you always want at the table. The dinner table or the board table, or perhaps even the kitchen table as she chops veg for a…

The data is mounting, the evidence is in. The coronavirus has entangled Australian women in a complex web of negative economic impacts. As it urgently reshapes national policy responses, the federal government must produce a Gender Impact Statement to fully understand and address the specific and intersecting disadvantages that are

It’s hard to believe that the term sexual harassment was not coined until the 1970s. While legal and organisational responses to it have evolved over that time, there are profound and surprising misconceptions as to the very nature of who gets harassed.

Australia needs both the political will and the toolkit for a gender equitable and efficient COVID-19 recovery budget.

Violence swirls around women’s lives in myriad ways. It lurks in the way men speak to women, the way they might look at them, rattle their confidence, patronise, exclude and…

A curated list of the week’s best journalism and writing about gender and equality.

In this BroadAgenda Public Talk Series webinar event hosted by the 50/50 by 2030 Foundation, University of Canberra, journalist Jacqueline Maley, Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins and gender scholar Kim Rubenstein speak candidly to Virginia Haussegger about sexism, workplace harassment and the need for law reform.

Community awareness about workplace sexual harassment has skyrocketed since the #MeToo movement. But harsh defamation laws still make it hard for media outlets to report allegations, laws are inconsistent and organisations protect their reputations ahead of staff safety. In a hearty discussion, journalist Jacqueline Maley, Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins and

Marise Payne has long been an enigma. Who is this woman who’s quietly become the highest-ranking woman in the current Australian government and therefore the most powerful female in the…