Australia and Oceania

It wasn’t long after Rita submitted her migration application that the harassment began. “He started messaging me: ‘Can you take a picture of yourself?’ And then from morning to night…

Early in her career, Michelle Simmons AO was often asked a particular question. “Oh, you study physics,” someone would say. “Isn’t it all already worked out?” “I remember thinking, ‘We…

Lidia Thorpe has compared the Australian government to Israel as the ‘illegal occupier of these lands’ in an impassioned speech pledging support to Palestine. The firebrand Greens-turned-Independent senator arrived in the…

A few years after moving from South Africa to South Australia, Sunet Verwey and her husband came across an ad for the Country Fire Service at their local shopping centre. Grateful for…

We’d all like to assume if we went into cardiac arrest in the street, someone would come to our aid. But it turns out gender can affect your chances of…

Two scenes this week offered a stark reminder of just how prescient Australia’s problem with women can still be. Within hours of Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil and Immigration Minister…

AUSTRALIA/ The federal education minister is flagging a possible overhaul of the tertiary education regulator amid fears the threshold for triggering investigations into the mishandling of sexual violence matters is…

AUSTRALIA/Yasha Watkins and Faye Paliadelis are pensioners who are doing something in their retirement they never thought possible. They’re house sharing. And it’s not by choice — they say skyrocketing rents…

Mining is a famously male-dominated industry, but a group of women on a remote site in WA’s north say that is changing.  AUSTRALIA/According to the Chamber of Minerals and Energy of Western…

More than 50,000 people with endometriosis have helped map the impact of the condition around the country, as the federal opposition calls on the government to expand its new pelvic…