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 [...]
Social Issues
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 [...]
Motherhood still comes at a significant price for women – New Zealand
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
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
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 [...]
