Mission impossible? Dismantling the rape culture in Australia

Mission impossible? Dismantling the rape culture in Australia

The political responses to protests and calls for broad social reform can be characterised as inept attempts to control and minimise debate.

  • byLouise Newman

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Population shock:Where the truth resides on immigration
Analysis
Population

Population shock:Where the truth resides on immigration

The government must not sleepwalk into the future when it comes to meeting the challenges of an ageing and declining population.

  • byAbul Rizvi
Net sovereignty:How nation-states are reining in the online giants

Net sovereignty:How nation-states are reining in the online giants

Ten years ago,Facebook and Google might have won February’s stand-off with Australia. But governments everywhere are fighting back.

  • byPaul Fletcher
Touchy subject:We must end self-censorship on Israel and Palestine

Touchy subject:We must end self-censorship on Israel and Palestine

The Australian media needs to get to a point where the reality of Israel can be discussed without accusations of anti-Semitism being used to block the debate.

  • byJohn Lyons
Pacific in peril:Why our region needs us to step up and lead

Pacific in peril:Why our region needs us to step up and lead

Now,more than ever,the Pacific needs a champion. The Pacific desperately wants Australia to assume this role. The rest of the world expects it of us.

  • byRichard Marles
If we are going to reform the ADF,‘culture’ isn’t the answer

If we are going to reform the ADF,‘culture’ isn’t the answer

One of the most significant changes made to the ADF in recent times was about who could work,not how they did so.

  • bySamantha Crompvoets
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Violence against women both a crisis and a source of national shame
Opinion
Gender

Violence against women both a crisis and a source of national shame

A lack of meaningful and effective leadership at the highest level of government on violence against women is the biggest barrier to achieving genuine reform.

  • byKate Fitz-Gibbon
To work for women,our governing chamber needs definitive change

To work for women,our governing chamber needs definitive change

Having more women in parliament is vital,but the responsibility for cultural change there shouldn’t rest solely with women.

  • byKate Thwaites andJenny Macklin
Pleasers and doers:the push and pull of being a political warrior
Analysis
Analysis

Pleasers and doers:the push and pull of being a political warrior

As the federal government gets more involved in disability,aged care and mental health,the tensions between ministers and public servants are likely to increase.

  • byDon Russell
Pandemic secrecy pushed Australians towards their premiers

Pandemic secrecy pushed Australians towards their premiers

Until this pandemic,the development of public health policy in Australia had never been subordinate to national security processes. It was just one bad sign.

  • byBill Bowtell
Bridging the gap between #MeToo and the law

Bridging the gap between #MeToo and the law

The culture of silence surrounding sexual harassment in the workplace must be broken with a collective push.

  • byRachel Doyle