Young men on sexting: it’s normal, but complicated
Signe Ravn, University of Melbourne and Steven Roberts, Monash University Concern about the popularity of “sexting” – the sending and receiving of sexually explicit [...]
Social Issues
Healing the Past by Nurturing the Future – Helping First Nations Australians to heal complex trauma as parents
Becoming a parent is a major change in life for anyone. It is filled with hope, joy, and fear — and this is the case if you have grown up in a stable and safe environment. [...]
What’s the value of your dog’s life, and why it matters
Simon F. Haeder, Pennsylvania State University; Deven Carlson, University of Oklahoma, and Joe Ripberger, University of Oklahoma Americans love their pets, spending more than [...]
Your body as a weapon: the rise of the ‘revenge body’ online
Mair Underwood, The University of Queensland Months after a public breakup with her husband, the politician Barnaby Joyce, Natalie Joyce made news when she displayed her [...]
The USA has a self perpetuating violent love affair with guns – media coverage leads to increase gun sales
The United States is in a dangerous, self perpetuating violent love affair with guns. The sad fact is, Gun violence in the United States constitutes a serious public health [...]
7.3 million migrants call Australia home
While there are many who wish to fight the diversity in Australia, who wish to fan hate and encourage violence against ethnic minorities, the reality is Australia truly is a [...]
The real problem with toxic masculinity is that it assumes there is only one way of being a man
Ashley Morgan, Cardiff Metropolitan University For centuries, male violence and acts of aggression were often the way that power was understood and patriarchy upheld. In [...]
The real problem with posting about your kids online
Priya C. Kumar, University of Maryland In a recent essay published in The Washington Post, a mother explained her decision to continue writing essays and blog posts about her [...]
Guns do kill people – around 200,000 each year
Around the world there were an estimated 195,000 to 276,000 firearm deaths in 2016, the majority of them homicides, but firearm deaths in Australia have dropped since 1990, [...]
Profile of young carers in Australia: one in twenty people aged 15-24 years are young carers
According to newly released census data, one in twenty people aged 15-24 years were young carers. In 2016 there were a total of 2.1 million people in Australia who reported [...]
