Society & Inequality

Paul McDonald

There's a strange rule built into our social security system: young adults get $150 less money to live on each fortnight simply because of their age.

Maddison Teigan

First, patients were promised meaningful consultation on reforms to the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA). It never happened. Then AHPRA asked the public for five minutes of feedback —and removed the responses they did not want displayed.

Gemma Killen

Most Australians do not realise that carve-outs exist in the Sex Discrimination Act or that in the present day, women are still losing their jobs for getting divorced.

Amy Remeikis

As with most things in Australia, the ability to shackle women during child birth is a practice that impacts more First Nations women than others, and most women in parliament would never have spoken to a woman who had given birth while shackled to a bed. And yet, the Australian parliament could not even manage to support minimum guidelines.