PhD Scholar and international student If you could have any job in the world, what would it be? Being a teacher. I was a teacher and a counsellor and when I go back to Iran, I’ll be teaching at university.…
Common Threads Report and Best Practice Guide Launched by Maria Vamvakinou
On 4 December the Federal Member for Calwell, Maria Vamvakinou MP, launched the MCWH Common Threads Report and Best Practice Guide in Melbourne. Vamvakinou launched the publications on behalf of the Minister for Health Tanya Plibersek, and spoke passionately about…
The WRAP #4, November: Still birth, international students & 60 seconds with Maria Hach
Welcome to the WRAP number 4. As many of you would have already gathered from our chats here on the WRAP, we are pretty keen on statistics. When we can find them, that is. But, no matter how compelling or shocking…
Ethnicity plays a role in the stillbirth story
Australia was recently ranked 7th among 165 countries around the world for best places to be a mother. This is a truly fine achievement – an acknowledgement of the relative privilege many women in Australia enjoy. But before we start…
Closing the gaps in health for international students
Here’s another statistical feather to Australia’s cap: Australia has been ranked number 1 by the World Economic Forum for closing the gender gap on educational attainment. No ‘ifs’ or ‘buts’ about it, it’s a ranking we can truly be proud of,…
Media Release: Poverty report highlights the challenges for migrant and refugee women
The Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health (MCWH) commends the recent release of the ‘Poverty in Australia’ Report by the Australia Council of Social Services (ACOSS) and responded to the report’s implications for immigrant and refugee women. ‘The report makes clear…
THE WRAP #2
Welcome to our second edition of the WRAP. The Australian Human Rights Commission has published a report following the study tour undertaken by the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women earlier this year. It was a great opportunity to be part of…
Honouring the lives of migrant women
How often do we pay tribute to the immigrant and refugee women who came to Australia in the mass migration of the post-war period? These women – for many of us, our mothers or our grandmothers – have left such…
The good, the bad and the silent
The fact that Victorian police attended more than 50,000 family violence incidents in 2011 – 2012 is no cause for celebration. But, according to their Annual Report, the dramatic rise of 43.3% in the number of reported family violence related…
60 seconds with Elizabeth Mazeyko
59, mother of 2, grandmother of 4 and bilingual health educator If you had a magic wand what would you use it for? I’d like to empower women and build up their self-esteem, so that they don’t feel like…