Balancing the scales of justice for all women and girls will require recalibrating a system historically made by men and for men, experts say.
Maeve Bannister
An extra week of annual leave would add two per cent to employment costs but reduce employee turnover and time lost to injury and stress, unions say.
Jacob Shteyman
Public school teachers will boycott NAPLAN testing as part of ramped-up industrial action in their fight for improved pay and conditions.
Ethan James
Charities are missing out billions of dollars each year because financial advisers to Australia’s wealthiest people aren’t at liberty to talk donations, it has been claimed.
Simone Grogan
Germany might be headed towards banning social media use for under-14s and introducing more stringent digital verification.
Andreas Rinke
The City of Perth and the Public Transport Authority have been left red-faced after a high-pitched noise device to deter homeless people was installed on the edge of the Perth CBD.
Caleb Runciman and Oliver Lane
A public system will be used by parents to give consent to children aged 13 to 16 for them to use social media in Portugal.
Sergio Goncalves
Children and young people have been restricted to their rooms for hours as workers went on strike against conditions at the trouble-plagued facility.
Nick Wilson
French President Emmanuel Macron says he wants to fast-track a ban on social media for teenagers younger than 15.
Samuel Petrequin
Two monuments in a major city's CBD have been defaced in the lead-up to Australia Day, with leaders condemning the vandalism as disgraceful and despicable.
Nick Wilson and Callum Godde
A bigger menace lurks in Australian waters than a recent string of shark attacks, swimmers are being warned ahead of the long weekend.
Tehran's decades-old dictatorship could be about to topple, says an Australian expert who was jailed for 804 days by the Iranian regime.
Zac de Silva and Grace Crivellaro
The prime minister has opened the door to a royal commission into a deadly terror attack as calls for an inquiry rise from within his party.
Tess Ikonomou and Dominic Giannini
WA children are paying the price, with one in six now living in poverty across the State, appalling experts and welfare advocates.
Jay Hanna
The majority of Liberal leaders across Australia are now women - but are they political saviours or placeholders until a male colleague takes over?
Ben McKay
Australia's world-first social media ban for children under 16 is imminent but the details of its rollout and enforcement remain fuzzy.
Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson
Here’s something you can do today, in the 16 days DV awareness campaign, to help save a life.
Kim Macdonald
Reports indicate that women aged 55 and over are the fastest growing cohort of homeless Australians.
Laws designed to prevent employees from having to pick up the phone outside of work hours appear to be having their intended effect, a report shows.
Rising food prices, an increasingly unaffordable rental market and vanishing hopes of a pre-Christmas interest rates cut have nearly half of us worried about putting food on the table this festive season.
Kate Emery
Trailblazing feminist Ita Buttrose believes modern society does not value mothers raising their children the way that it should.
Remote study, working from home and a pandemic have all conspired to leave many young people struggling to find friends. A boom in social groups is aiming to fix the problem.
Belle Taylor
The WA-led research is a national-first to quantify the economic costs of sexual abuse on children and adults and showed fiscal burden was exacerbated by a ‘chronically underfunded’ support sector.
Caitlyn Rintoul
Workers and the government are at loggerheads over pay with teachers walking off the job and public sector staff planning wider industrial action.
