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The USA has a self perpetuating violent love affair with guns – media coverage leads to increase gun sales

April 8, 2019 // 0 Comments

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

April 3, 2019 // 0 Comments

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

February 9, 2019 // 0 Comments

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

February 5, 2019 // 0 Comments

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

August 29, 2018 // 0 Comments

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

May 31, 2018 // 0 Comments

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 [...]

Motherhood still comes at a significant price for women – New Zealand

May 29, 2018 // 0 Comments

As New Zealand’s Prime Minister, the most famous mother-to-be, is due to give birth in less than a month, (after which she plans to head back to work and her prime [...]

Indigenous voices are speaking loudly on social media but racism endures

April 6, 2018 // 0 Comments

Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND Bronwyn Carlson, Macquarie University and Ryan Frazer, Macquarie University Social media are a vital resource for Indigenous [...]

Why you stink at fact-checking

April 3, 2018 // 0 Comments

We don’t automatically question information we read or hear. Gaelfphoto/Shutterstock.com Lisa Fazio, Vanderbilt University Here’s a quick quiz for you: In the biblical [...]

To achieve gender equality, we must first tackle our unconscious biases

March 8, 2018 // 0 Comments

Gender equality does not mean pretending that “male” and “female” do not exist. Shutterstock Beatrice Alba, La Trobe University People often argue that most Western [...]