"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
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
