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1 min read 2021-11-25 08:04:08

Endometriosis: Four years since Greg Hunt’s apology, what’s changed?

Back in 2017, Health Minister Greg Hunt issued a rare apology to Australian women. He directed it towards the one in ten who suffer from

1 min read 2021-11-25 03:32:42

Sam Mostyn delivered a powerful call to action on Wednesday, urging Australia to put care at the centre of the pandemic recovery. She spelt out how

1 min read 2021-11-18 06:29:53

Back in June this year I hit a milestone. It marked a full decade since I first began to understand exactly how Australia’s early learning and care

1 min read 2021-11-17 04:47:31

There’s one area of women’s health that’s progressed a little differently to others. That area is cervical cancer, which in 2018 became the

7 min read 2021-04-20 08:40:51

Can the Minister for Women PLEASE stand up? Welcome to Australia where sexism isn’t just everywhere, it’s brazen! A leadership crisis or a

3 min read 2021-03-30 02:01:50

Do you remember when Canadian Prime Mininster Justin Trudeau unveiled a gender-balance Cabinet, noting his famous rationale for doing so as,

4 min read 2021-03-19 07:48:45

My next round of birth control pills is in the post. Less than four hours after signing up for a subscription to the pill through Kin, I shared a

5 min read 2021-03-05 04:28:33

On Saturday the 27th of February Janine Hendry, a 57 year old academic, educator and feminist, had an idea. It was borne from fury and

4 min read 2020-11-19 02:26:51

If a true entrepreneur is somebody who solves real world problems through business, then Dr Talat Uppal is absolutely it. You won’t find her in the

3 min read 2020-11-04 02:19:00

When Juanita Phillips asked who remembers where they were as the results came through from the 2016 election, I didn’t take long to recall the

3 min read 2020-10-30 05:17:17

Kate Morris co founded Adore Beauty from a garage 20 years ago when she was 21 years old. This month the online beauty business listed on the ASX,

2 min read 2020-10-27 02:44:02

Something pretty amazing has just happened in Chile. An October 25 popular referendum has seen 78% of voters demanding a new constitution and 79%

3 min read 2020-10-21 06:46:45

On new years eve 2019, I sat with my family in horror as Australia’s bushfires ravaged the country. At nine months pregnant, the experience

8 min read 2020-10-19 07:46:00

In 2014, after 40 years of production, the Commonwealth government stopped producing the Women’s Budget Statement as part of the official Budget

3 min read 2020-10-13 05:16:21

The above image with the message “Fatima’s next job could be in cyber (she just doesn’t know it yet). Rethink. Reskill. Reboot,” is an actual