MCWH is turning 35! That’s right, we’ve been talking to women about their health and their rights for 35 years. You have to agree, it’s impressive.Like many women, we’ve had our ups and downs, a few makeovers, changed our name…
The WRAP #14 : Healthy Lives, Healthy Futures, Bilingual health education and 60 seconds with Mila Robles
September has brought us many new things, new season, new government, new expectations for the future. Spring is typically a time when everything is young and fresh, but being young and fresh is not always what it’s cracked up to…
Healthy Lives Healthy Futures
‘Healthy Lives, Healthy Futures: alcohol education for young people’ is a short animation about the dangers of binge drinking put together for MCWH and Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre. Watch it here! Youth: it’s the best time of your…
Bilingual health education: not just about language
If you’ve ever grappled with using youth-speak and text-speak in everyday language, then you might just have an inkling of what it’s like to be a linguistic outsider. Kevin Rudd aside, most people over the age of 30 don’t feel…
60 seconds with Mila Robles
Photographer and mother-to-be What are you enjoying doing at the moment? I have just moved and I am enjoying discovering my new neighbourhood: East Brunswick. So many new places and I have CERES around the corner. If you were a…
The WRAP #12: RU486, the invisibly employed and 60 seconds with Monica Chhay
It’s hard to believe that twelve months have flown by but this issue marks the WRAP’s first birthday! Thank you for the encouragement and inspiration so far, and particular thanks to the wonderful women who have featured in our ’60…
RU486: where to from here?
The government’s decision to list mifepristone and misoprostol (RU486) on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) should be seen as victory in the battle for women’s right to choose. Women now have the option, during the seven weeks’ gestation period, of…
Job success and making a living
Some things are just invisible to most people, no matter how often they see them. Take immigrant and refugee women in the workforce for example. People see immigrant and refugee women every day, working in hospitals, hotels, child care centres,…
60 seconds with Monica Chhay
Wine lover, General Manager and team motivator at ‘Proud Mary’ cafe. What are you enjoying doing at the moment? I’ve been getting into gardening. I’ve just moved out to Northcote and I’m really into becoming more sustainable and actually knowing…
The WRAP #10 : Ticking all the boxes, justice for women in prison and 60 seconds with Juliana Qian
May has been a month of mind expansion and making friends. The 7th Australian Women’s Health Network Conference was three days of empowering feminist discussion about why, at every level of health service delivery and decision making, gender matters. No…