Australian Bureau of Statistics, Released 4/07/2024 More than one in five people (21.4 per cent) had disability in 2022, up 3.7 percentage points from 2018, according to data released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). Linda Fardell, ABS head of health statistics, said: “The increase was seen across most age groups in the most recent Survey of Disability, Ageing and Carers. As...
Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University, April 2024. Rainbow Realities provides a synthesis of pre-existing findings as well as more than 50 new analyses derived from the data of six surveys of LGBTQA+ populations in Australia. These are: Private Lives 3, Writing Themselves In 4, SWASH , Trans Pathways, Walkern Katatdjin (Rainbow Knowledge) and Pride and...
Australian Bureau of Statistics, 23rd August 2023 The Australian Bureau of Statistics has today released new data on sexual harassment, physical violence, and sexual violence in Australia. 1.7 million Australians sexually harassed in 2021-22 Survey results showed that 1.3 million women and nearly half a million men experienced sexual harassment in 2021-22. Sexual harassment was considered to...
Dawson, Daniel; McDonough, Daniel; Reilly, Rachel; and Charles, James A. (2023) “Aboriginal Men’s Business: A Literature Review of Factors Affecting Aboriginal Men Accessing Sexual Health Services,” Journal of the Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet, Vol. 4 : Iss. 2 , Article 6. DOI: Abstract: Introduction: Aboriginal men are relatively young, with a median age of 22 years, nearly...
International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), Updated April 2023 How to talk about abortion: A guide to stigma-free messaging (updated April 2023) provides useful tips and advice on what to consider when developing materials relating to abortion. The content includes examples of positive, rights-based messages, and how to avoid using stigmatizing language and images. This guide can be used...
Diversity Council of Australia (DCA), 07 Mar 2023 This ground-breaking new report re-examines the state of play for culturally and racially marginalised (CARM) women in leadership, focusing on how the intersections of two key marginalising characteristics – race and gender – are still operating in workplaces to lock CARM women out of leadership. The research, conducted by a team of...