Managing the mandate: How Australia handles the UN SRVAWG as a diplomatic inconvenience
Emma and Amber look at how the Australian Government has chosen to ‘manage the mandate’ of the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, rather than engage squarely with her warnings ...
1 Juni 13min
Beyond beds and referrals: Addressing the root causes of women's mental distress
When governments design mental health strategies, they focus on systems: beds, referral pathways, integration models. But what about the structural conditions actually driving women's mental distress?...
28 Maj 11min
Tasmania's mental health reboot: Ensuring women aren't erased
Tasmania's Department of Health is developing its next mental health strategy, 'Rethink and Beyond'. AAWAA and our state member organisations – WAAT, QWAA, NSWWAA and WAWAA – lodged five coordinated s...
28 Maj 12min
Did the AHRC seek costs against the Lesbian Action Group? A timeline
On 26 May 2026, at Senate Estimates, Senator Henderson asked the Australian Human Rights Commission whether it had sought costs against the Lesbian Action Group. This episode sets out the documentary ...
26 Maj 3min
Older women fall between every plan: Male violence, policy, and the gap no one is closing
No country in the world has a dedicated national plan on violence against older women. Not one. In this episode, Emma and Megan unpack why, covering the way older women get absorbed into sex-neutral p...
21 Maj 13min
When consent law looks for excuses, not proof
In this episode, Emma talks with Lucy about what NSWWAA saw inside DCJ’s stakeholder roundtable on the sexual consent reforms review. They walk through the structural gap between the domestic‑abuse la...
19 Maj 11min
The Court has spoken: Women are no longer pre-eminent in our own law
On 15 May 2026, the Full Federal Court handed down its decision in Giggle for Girls Pty Ltd v Tickle — and buried inside the legal reasoning is an acknowledgment that women's advocates have been waiti...
15 Maj 5min
Dismantling stereotypes — or reinforcing them? The CEDAW Committee's confused framework
Emma is joined by Suzi and Luci to unpack CEDAW’s Draft General Recommendation 41 on ‘gender stereotypes’ and why AAWAA decided to intervene. They walk through how the draft quietly shifts from sex to...
14 Maj 13min
