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…
Position Paper on International Student Access to Pregnancy-Related Care
Through the On Your Own research project we undertook in 2011 with international students in Melbourne, we found that the minimum requirements of the Overseas Student Health Cover (OSHC) Deed pose significant obstacles to female international students who fall pregnant…
Continuing the Discussion about Feminism
3CR Community Radio has recently broadcast parts of our March seminar ‘Does feminism speak for all women?’ The national women’s current affairs program, Women on the Line, featured discussions from all three of our speakers: Durkhanai Ayubi, a Senior Policy…
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…
Ticking all the boxes
Budi Sudarto, is gay, Asian and proud. And at the 8th National LGBTI Health in Difference conference a few weeks ago we heard him, a peer education coordinator from the Victorian AIDS Council, make the interesting observation that “we live…
Justice for women in prison
“Injustice anywhere,” Martin Luther King famously wrote in his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” “is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.” We tend to think…
60 seconds with Juliana Qian
Shanghainese/Melburnian cultural critic, media maker and poet-provocateur If you were a super-heroine, what powers would you like to have? Precognition. But most likely it’d just make me really anxious. Maybe to have an endless appetite with no hunger. Good for…