Emerging in 2017 in response to allegations of sexual assault perpetrated by Hollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, #MeToo highlighted the potential for traditional and social media to work together to generate global interest in gender-based violence. Within 24 hours, survivors around the world had used the hashtag 12 million times.
Does the gender pay gap exist for kids? ABC news asked Australian kids what they think.
We’d all like to think boys and girls are born into this world with an equal shot at life. But for girls, there’s plenty of evidence to suggest the odds aren’t in their favour.
Western Australia’s recent budget deficit is the result – not the cause – of deteriorating economic conditions.
The Victorian government's budget announcement on 1 May included a significant reinvestment in TAFE. Courses in 30 key skill priority areas will be free from the beginning of 2019.
Each and every one of us in public office or public service has a fundamental responsibility: to operate in the public interest. Identifying and striving to serve the public interest is the most important thing we can do.
Recent television appearances by the [South Australian] Premier about electricity generation might have led us to hope that the Government of South Australia, unlike those of other States, had at last woken up to the folly of privatising strategic assets. Not so. They are about to make the same mistake with the Lands Titles Office.
International Women's Day has a rich and radical history which is inextricably linked with the labour movement.
The court that in 1947 determined to reduce weekly working hours in Australia from 44 to 40 understood that working hours are not set in stone, but must change with the times.
The failure of many Australian workers to get a real pay rise has been linked to a decline in industrial action, including strikes.
Australia's commercial statutory authority model is the perfect way to renationalise assets.
