Official words, worsening record: Australia's draft UN report
Emma and Amber examine Australia's draft seventh periodic report under the ICCPR — the international treaty that binds Australia to protect civil and political rights. They look at what the report say...
30 Jul 10min
Silence from the top: Top officials say nothing as Australia's CSW record deepens
Emma and Luci cover AAWAA's follow-up communication to the UN Commission on the Status of Women, ahead of the 1 August deadline for submissions to CSW71. They discuss the continued silence from Austra...
23 Jul 10min
'Woman': What Australia's midwifery regulator left undefined
When a regulatory document governing pregnancy, birth and postnatal care can't say clearly what 'woman' means, that's not a drafting oversight — it's a clinical and legal problem. Emma talks to Suzi a...
16 Jul 8min
TUF. Patriarchy: The structure we are not supposed to name
In this episode of The Unmoved Feminist, Martine and Liv unpack a word used everywhere and explained almost nowhere: patriarchy. Drawing on Wollstonecraft, Gilman, Frye's birdcage image, Mitchell's fo...
9 Jul 12min
The SDA timeline: CEDAW, the 2013 amendments, and the loss of women’s sex‑based protections and rights
Emma and Sue walk through forty years of Australia’s Sex Discrimination Act, from its CEDAW roots and the creation of our sex‑based protections and rights, through to the AHRC’s growing role and the 2...
5 Jul 19min
"A different time" is not an argument: Reckoning with the 2013 SDA amendments
Former prime minister Julia Gillard has finally broken her silence on the 2013 Sex Discrimination Act amendments, telling an audience at Manchester University that “it was a different time”. In this s...
2 Jul 6min
Women take their questions to the AHRC in Adelaide -- but are still waiting for answers
In this episode, Emma and Lucy discuss the AHRC's 'The Answer is Human Rights' seminar in Adelaide, where women affected by the Commission's decisions — including members of the Lesbian Action Group —...
26 Jun 15min
TUF. Female‑only spaces and the politics of women’s safety
In this episode of The Unmoved Feminist, Liv and Martine ask why female‑only spaces still matter for women’s safety, dignity and participation in public life, tracing how refuges, hospital wards, toil...
25 Jun 11min
