The SDA timeline: CEDAW, the 2013 amendments, and the loss of women’s sex‑based protections and rights
Emma and Sue walk through forty years of Australia’s Sex Discrimination Act, from its CEDAW roots and the creation of our sex‑based protections and rights, through to the AHRC’s growing role and the 2...
5 Juli 19min
"A different time" is not an argument: Reckoning with the 2013 SDA amendments
Former prime minister Julia Gillard has finally broken her silence on the 2013 Sex Discrimination Act amendments, telling an audience at Manchester University that “it was a different time”. In this s...
2 Juli 6min
Women take their questions to the AHRC in Adelaide -- but are still waiting for answers
In this episode, Emma and Lucy discuss the AHRC's 'The Answer is Human Rights' seminar in Adelaide, where women affected by the Commission's decisions — including members of the Lesbian Action Group —...
26 Juni 15min
TUF. Female‑only spaces and the politics of women’s safety
In this episode of The Unmoved Feminist, Liv and Martine ask why female‑only spaces still matter for women’s safety, dignity and participation in public life, tracing how refuges, hospital wards, toil...
25 Juni 11min
"Celebrated, not debated": The AHRC's answer on deficient exemption guidelines
At the AHRC's Sydney 'The Answer Is Human Rights' seminar, women asked one governance question: the Federal Court has found your exemption guidelines deficient — when will you fix them? No officer off...
18 Juni 15min
"No plans" for women and girls: AHRC says women must seek exemptions to keep female-only protections
At the Perth stop of the Australian Human Rights Commission's national seminar series, AAWAA Director Amber Rossi asked President Hugh de Kretser a direct question: will the Commission use its section...
13 Juni 14min
TUF. Counting women: Why sex‑based data still matters
In this episode of The Unmoved Feminist, Liv and Martine go back to basics on something that shapes what governments see and what they ignore: sex‑disaggregated data. They trace how second‑wave femini...
11 Juni 13min
TUF. The feminist waves and why sex‑based feminism still matters
In this episode, Martine and Liv step back to map the bigger picture — tracing the feminist "waves" from Mary Wollstonecraft's demand for women's rational equality in 1792, through the suffrage campai...
4 Juni 14min
