Beyond Titillation:the porn-hater's complaint
By 2009 the Trust had successfully brokered a philanthropic partnership between the Myer Foundation, Buckland Foundation and the Trust itself. All contributed enough funds to support a ground-breaking project Reality and Risk. The project, led by Maree Crabbe and Dave Corlett, is examining the impact of pornography on young people and their sexuality. In this context we were interested in the report about US campaigner, Gail Dines.
The Age, July 10, 2010 by Julie BindeYou've just got to fight on if you believe, says Heather Osland
The High Court of Australia has given Heather Osland the right to see why the Victorian government refused her a pardon.
The Age, 23 June, 2010 by Selma Milovanovic
Fairness and respect is something we should all be striving for, at a personal level, with our friends and families and in the broader community Read an edited extract of Stephen Paul's speech to the ALP Victorian State Conference, 21 June, 2010 Time for an overhaul. Young men everywhere must be taught, beyond platitudes, that young women are not prey
The examples in this piece by Maureen Dowd underline the importance of programs like Be the Hero! in helping boys develop their ideas about respectful relationships.
New York Times, 8 June, 2010
Paradise beneath her feet: how women are transforming the Middle East
Isobel Coleman discusses her book about a new brand of feminism that is taking hold in the Middle East with Mark Bannerman on Saturday Extra.
ABC Radio National, 5 June 2010 New homicide laws have proved indefensible
What is required of the legal system to uphold the original intent of these law reforms, particularly where there is a history of violence towards the woman and where the woman killed is a victim blamed?
The Sunday Age, 23 May 2010, by Sarah Capper and Mary Crooks Probe into new law on homicide
Mr Hulls revealed the Depatment of Justice review in response to an opinion piece in the Sunday Age, calling for a formal review into the partial defence.
The Sunday Age, 30 May 2010, by Peter Munro Fighting family violence may require further reform
The review is seeking to answer a number of questions, including those posed by the Sunday Age last week....Family violence remains a complex epidemic and it may be that there is further reform that can occur in time to better respond to its realities.
The Sunday Age, 30 May 2010, by Attorney-General Rob Hulls. What a lot of guys don't realise is that thoughts and words eventually harden into attitudes....
And it's never truer than in the way men think about women.
Sunday Age, M magazine, 16 May 2010, by Sam De Brito. Read A better way to punish troubled women
Amanda George argues for a more honest accounting of the costs of imprisoning women.
The Age, 22 May, 2010 Read
Empty pockets and wonky careers can provide a richer life
I'm a feminist because I take my wife's selfhood seriously
The Age, 19 May 2010 by Damon Young. Read How the sex bias prevails
Shankar Vedantam explores 2 types of evidence: laboratory experiment, and the lived experience of 2 transgendered academics.
The Age, 15 May, 2010. Read Naomi Wolf: The Beauty Myth Revisited
Listen to the ABC Radio National Life Matters with Richard Aedy recording of Naomi Wolf speaking at the 2010 Happiness and its Causes Conference in Sydney.
6 May 2010
Changes to the Sex Discrimination Act
will protect young victims of cyber bullying, and protect workers who take parental leave.
Brisbane Times, 9 May 2010 by Stephanie Peatling. Read
Heather Osland still seeking justice: third time in the High Court of Australia.
DVRCV Quarterly, Edition 1, Autumn 2010 by Debbie Kirkwood. Read
| Better Half Still Battling
Germaine Greer's reflections on forty years since the publication of The Female Eunich.
The Australian, 5 May, 2010. Read Rejig of discrimination laws should enshrine equality for all
...the system can do little to discourage potential discrimination...The review of the current four federal anti-discrimination laws needs to find ways to effectively tackle discrimination.
The Age, 3 May 2010, by Dominique Allen. Read Women on Boards: a rarity
Richard Aedy talks with Jacey Graham on Life Matters, ABC Radio National, 14 April 2010. Listen
Call to hear the gender agenda
In societies where females have little value, when times are tough, girls are neglected to death.
Jo Chandler writes of the disproportionate numbers deaths of girls in difficult economic times. Read
The Age, 26 April 2010 Why Feminism Matters: A Sydney Ideas Forum
A forum of international political scientists and Australian academics and researchers discuss the state of contempoary feminism at a Sydney University Arts Association event which was filmed by ABC TV Big Ideas, 22 March 2010. Watch Gen Y women facing pressure to have sex
19 April 2010, The Age, by Mary-Anne Toy
Recent research about the impacts of raunch culture. Read
What Women Want
13 April 2010
SBS TV Insight program with Jenny Brockie explores juggling career and parenting. View or read transcript
Women in Management: Delusions of Progress
New research shows ...women continue to lag men at every single career stage....Reports of progress in advancement, compensation, and career satisfaction are at best overstated, at worst just plain wrong.
Harvard Business Review March 2010, by Nancy Carter and Christine Silva. Read
Who said feminism is dead?
Follow the reflections of a younger feminist here.
The Age,12 April 2010, by Nina Funnell
The Crucifiction of Christine Nixon
Moira Raynor analyses media attacks on Christine Nixon
Eureka Street 9 April 2010. Read
Disturbing Findings on Rape and Domestic Violence
A national survey suggests found one in four Australians believe women falsify or exaggerate claims of rape and domestic violence. Read
ABC News, 7 April 2010 Helping Women who Farm
Australian Women in Agriculture has received funds to train women in agriculture, fisheries and forestry, and funds to train young women in networking and leadership.
The organisation, led by retired sheep breeder, former secondary school principal and rural sociologist, Dr Pat Hamilton, is clearly encouraging women to step up into bigger, more public roles.
Weekly Times, 7 April 2010, by Genevieve Barlow Read Wayne Carey in television football show
...men who inflict violence on women have no place on our television screens or on football fields. They certainly do not deserve roles as opinion makers.
The Daily Telegraph, 3 April 2010, by Rebecca Wilson Read
Why Young Women Need Feminism
...for all the talk about feminism being passe, mine wasn't a generation that rejected it for its militant, man-hating connotation- but because of its success. Women were equal - duh- so why did we need feminism? It's only recently that I, and women my age, have come to eat those words...
Newsweek Web Exclusive, 23 March 2010, by Jessica Bennett Read
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