From Brave to SEED: ‘Our country needs healthy families’
Dee Rudebeck
Fri, 8 Sep 2023
As origin stories go, Bernadette Black’s is highly compelling. Her drive to establish Brave Foundation as its first CEO – an organisation supporting young parents into education or work – was grounded in her own experience as a pregnant 16-year-old trying to navigate Centrelink. She found the experience profoundly unwelcoming and unhelpful, and it created a deep determination to one day change the system. Thirty years on, she’s doing that with SEED.
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‘Sharing knowledge will create generational change’
Fri, 25 Aug 2023
Kayla Baker-Peris is a proud Yolngu, Yawurru and Kidja woman born and raised in Darwin. She is an alumnus of the Yalari Indigenous scholarship program, which supported her until graduating from Kambala Girls School in Rose Bay, Sydney, in 2018. Below, she shares her experiences of being one of the first Indigenous students at Kambala and how the scholarship changed her life.
Under Cover film continues to move audiences at community screenings
Diana Hodgetts
Fri, 17 Mar 2023
It was a pleasant summer evening in the East Melbourne suburb of Ringwood last night as a mostly female crowd packed into Karralyka Centre for a sold-out screening of Sue Thomson’s documentary Under Cover.
Gender equality in numbers
International Women's Development Agency
Wed, 8 Mar 2023
Even with a seemingly limitless amount of data about our shopping habits or Netflix viewing history, we lack data about gender.
Philanthropy’s role in cracking the code this International Women’s Day
Julie Reilly, CEO, Australians Investing in Women
Fri, 3 Mar 2023
Each year brings a new theme for International Women’s Day (IWD) and a new focus for action on gender equality. A quick look at key gender equality statistics, however, shows very little that’s new.
Changing the face of politics
Thu, 2 Mar 2023
The University of Canberra has become the sixth university to offer a Pathways to Politics for women program.
Talking the talk to plant the seeds of a better future
Fri, 16 Dec 2022
Two organisations that each recently received transformative funding from Impact 100 SA, are joined by the common thread of lived experience.
