The federal government last year announced a plan to end gender inequality, including violence against women, the unequal sharing of domestic and care work and the under-representation of women in leadership.

The island states have often relied on Australia and New Zealand to project their concerns and issues to the US because they have larger representations in Washington D.C. and because they are great friends.

Such unverified media narratives reek of xenophobic and racist turpitude, constructed around a shared project of ideological expansion and geographical supremacy.

Since Europeans arrived in Australia, much of the country has become severely degraded.

Play can support children’s executive functions, meaning the mental skills we use when we think flexibly, use our memory and practise self-control.

Since 2002, India has been a dialogue partner of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF), but meaningful engagement only began in 2014 with the Modi government's establishment of the FIPIC.

New Year’s Eve celebrations are usually unticketed and free to attend. This can make it difficult to estimate how many people will show up.

What a world we live in that even a book could be a source of perpetual fear and aversion.

Some levels of taxation have been tolerated over the centuries because of beer’s known adverse impacts on health and behaviour.

Australia records its highest number of drowning deaths in the warmer months and tragically, 134 lives were lost last summer.