Gender responsive budgeting and the financing of maternity care in the Australian federation: addressing gender equality including in emergencies and disasters
Webinar/Online
Registration and Zoom details are available here. This webinar is the next in the “Human Rights, Gender Budgeting and Progressing Breastfeeding in 2020 and Beyond, Series”, and will be held on Monday, 29 April 2024, 6:00 PM -8:00 PM Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST). The webinar is…
Public Lecture by Prof Mike Savage: The Racial Wealth Divide, Elites and Tax Justice
Lecture
Deep dive into exploding wealth inequality, its impact on society, and legal loopholes used by the ultra-rich at this eye-opening event! Over the past decade escalating wealth inequalities are increasingly evident across the globe, and pose fundamental analytical and political issues. Analytically…
Interpretive Political Science as a Tool for Understanding Policy Making in Practice (Sarah Ball, Melbourne)
Seminar
Policy-making is an ongoing process of negotiation and mediation of meaning but this side of policy often goes unnoticed, made up of ‘hundreds of practical judgments, the everyday, taken-for-granted-routines and practices’ (Wagenaar). This research draws on key concepts from Bevir and Rhodes’s…
Bennelong & Phillip: A History Unravelled
Seminar
Kate Fullagar will discuss the background, research, writing, and unusual methodology of her third monograph, Bennelong & Phillip (Simon & Schuster, 2023). This book offers a dual biography of Arthur Phillip (1738-1814), the inaugural governor of New South Wales, and of Bennelong (c1764-…
Book Launch: 'The Radical Jewish Tradition: Revolutionaries, resistance fighters and firebrands'
Book launch
Before the Second World War, the majority of Jews were working class and part of a wider struggle alongside their non-Jewish comrades on the left. The book celebrates Jewish radicalism from the Tsarist Empire to Poland and Germany, from London to New York. To illuminate this background, the issue…
Masterclass: The changing landscape of academic publishing
Other
You are invited to a special masterclass with Professor Jerry A. Jacobs, to reflect on the intersections of your research with the sociology of work and occupations and discuss strategies for positioning this research for potential publications in peer-reviewed journals in sociology, gender studies…
'In My Blood It Runs', book launch and panel
Book launch
Please join us for the launch of the new children's book: In My Blood It Runs, written by Dujuan Hoosan, Margaret Anderson and Carol Turner, with illustrations by Blak Douglas. The book is based on the documentary of the same name and continues the argument for self-determined education…