As the nomination period draws to a close for our next Australian of the Year, we at MCWH would like to acknowledge the great 2015 line-up. There have been multiple factors lifting the visibility of violence against women and children,…
60 seconds with Natasha Jynel
Creative director and fashionista What are you enjoying doing at the moment? Everyone makes fun of me in Winter because I love drinking hot water “don’t you want a cup of tea…what about a bit of lemon and honey?” No thank…
Thinking more broadly about violence
Women are always teaching us new things, as long as we take the opportunity to listen. And as bell hooks has reminded us, we need to listen closely to the concrete reality of the marginalised in order to imagine a…
60 seconds with Zubaidah Shaburdin
MCWH’s new NETFA Project Officer, and diving enthusiast What are you enjoying doing at the moment? Learning and working on the MCWH NETFA (National Education Toolkit on FGM/C Awareness) Project. After recently completing my dissertation I’m very excited to jump…
60 seconds with Luisa Salvo
Multicultural Champion and trainee marathon runner What are you enjoying doing at the moment? I have recently changed from working fulltime to part time and I’m loving it. I am really enjoying spending time with my children. I have also…
The WRAP #29: Celebrating diversity, one voice and 60 seconds with Monique Hameed
Laurence and Annie/flickr Happy new year WRAP readers! True, it is the end of February, but Chinese New Year has come around in perfect time for us to legitimately begin our first WRAP for the year by wishing you health…
One voice
Preventing the Practice of FGM/C in Primary Schools. Image by Jessica Lea/UK DFID We’ve all been guilty of it: voicing our dissatisfaction and anger at the things that are unfair and unjust and then proceeding to do nothing about them.…
60 seconds with Monique Hameed
Australian Indigenous Studies Tutor and MCWH Project Officer What are you enjoying doing at the moment? Working at the MCWH! Also I’ve been enjoying my work with the Undercurrent Community Education Project doing workshops around sex and consent in the…
The WRAP # 28: Party Spoilers, 2014 Highlights and 60 seconds with Hale Yildiz
Can it be that we are at the end of another year? It feels like we have come a long way in such a short space of time. Thanks to everyone who has supported us this year, we feel like…
The Highlights of 2014
The end of the year can be strange mixture of merriment and mayhem and in the rush to wrap it up, we can lose sight of the many things that have already have been accomplished. And we’re not just talking…