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Australia’s performance on gender equality – are we fair dinkum?

  • Written by: Fiona McGaughey, Lecturer, Law School, University of Western Australia

On International Women’s Day this year, Australia hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons. Not only did we fail to support a United Nations (UN) motion that called for greater accountability for human rights violations against women and girls, but comments made by our prime minister provoked international outrage.

The UN resolution...

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a fresh idea to escape the low wage trap

  • Written by: Rosalind Dixon, Professor of Law, UNSW
a fresh idea to escape the low wage trapGetting shadow equity might get us better paid.Shutterstock

This is the second in a three-part mini-symposium on Wages, Unemployment and Underemployment presented by The Conversation and the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Read the other pieces in the series here.


For the past half-decade Australian wages have barely moved after...

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With Grand Finale, audiences bear witness to a world on the edge

  • Written by: William Peterson, Associate Professor, Flinders University
With Grand Finale, audiences bear witness to a world on the edgeGrand Finale is a new work from Israeli-born, London-based choreographer Hofesh Shechter.Rahi Rezvani

Review: Grand Finale, Adelaide Festival March 15


When we take our seats in Adelaide’s Festival Theatre the air is already thick with haze. Its density suggests something ominous, a kind of collapse. A single, melancholic musical line pierces...

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Pandanomics is a grey area, but to us the value of giant pandas is black and white

  • Written by: Jillian Ryan, Post-doctoral Research Fellow, CSIRO
Pandanomics is a grey area, but to us the value of giant pandas is black and whiteFuni and Wang Wang in December, 2011. The gian pandas' stay at Adelaide Zoo depends on federal funding to pay China about A$1 million a year.Dave Mattner/Adelaide Zoo

Wang Wang and Funi came to Australia from China a decade ago. Their relationship is best described as complicated. Despite considerable medical assistance, they have never managed to...

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  1. Why you shouldn’t bury your pet in the backyard
  2. Social media creates a spectacle society that makes it easier for terrorists to achieve notoriety
  3. Morrison announces $55 million for security at religious premises and warns against "tribalism"
  4. NSW election likely to be close, and Mark Latham will win an upper house seat
  5. Four lessons we must take away from the Christchurch terror attack
  6. New TAFE program for Aboriginal health-care students sees a near perfect completion rate
  7. We need a new definition of pornography
  8. Two million Aussies delay or don't go to the dentist – here's how we can fix that
  9. Women can build positive body image by controlling what they view on social media
  10. Ultra low wage growth isn't accidental. It is the intended outcome of government policies
  11. giving marsupials scents from suitors helps breeding programs
  12. why bats sleep upside down, and other stories of animal adaptation
  13. Youth homelessness efforts get a lowly 2 stars from national report card
  14. A truly inclusive society requires political restraint
  15. NSW election neck and neck as voters face a 1950s-style 'I'll see you and raise you' campaign
  16. Christchurch attacks are a stark warning of toxic political environment that allows hate to flourish
  17. Can a senator be expelled from the federal parliament for offensive statements?
  18. The psychology of fear and hate, and what each of us can do to stop it
  19. Why overhauling NZ's gun and terrorism laws alone can't stop terrorist attacks
  20. Christchurch mosque shootings must end New Zealand's innocence about right-wing terrorism
  21. Why news outlets should think twice about republishing the New Zealand mosque shooter's livestream
  22. If you've got private health insurance, the choice to use it in a public hospital is your own
  23. Guinea flowers are fierce and golden
  24. Liberal MP Craig Laundy confirms he will quit
  25. Michelle Grattan on the Coalition and Coal
  26. how love, pain and sacrifice produced an Australian classic
  27. why we always choose story over technology
  28. Most recreational fishers in Australia support marine sanctuaries
  29. Finally, people with disabilities will have a chance to tell their stories – and be believed
  30. Elite sport is becoming a platform to target the trans community
  31. What do we mean by meaning? Science can help with that
  32. The terror of climate change is transforming young people's identity
  33. Chinese-Australia relations may not be 'toxic', but they do need to keep warming up
  34. How can we make families safer? Get men to change their violent behaviour
  35. ALP urges Fair Work Commission to give "substantial" minimum wage increase
  36. why is Australian satire so rarely risky?
  37. Vital signs. It's one thing to back down on Hayne's recommendation about mortgage brokers, it's another to offer nothing in its place
  38. Build social and affordable housing to get us off the boom-and-bust roller coaster
  39. Housing policy reset is overdue, and not only in Australia
  40. The Coalition is trapped in its coal minefield
  41. All Boeing 737 MAX flights grounded – and travellers could feel it in the hip pocket
  42. Dowry abuse does exist, but let's focus on the wider issues of economic abuse and coercive control
  43. Students striking for climate action are showing the exact skills employers look for
  44. The Catholic Church is investigating George Pell's case. What does that mean?
  45. The Australian Web Archive is a momentous achievement – but things will get harder from here
  46. Landmark High Court decision guides how compensation for native title losses will be determined
  47. climate change is messing with your favourite tipple's timing
  48. what is a headache? Is it our brain hurting?
  49. Young voters may hold the key to the NSW state election: here's why
  50. Australia’s first known female voter, the famous Mrs Fanny Finch

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