In this month's issue:
Taking care of men in Canterbury
Health system to recognise Maori men's needs
1 in 3 male victims of DV acknowledged by NSW Government
man therapy with Dr Ironwood launched
Update on National Male Health Policy
Gamarada communit...
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Men take their own lives at four times the rate of women (that's five men a day, on average). Accidents, cancer and heart disease all account for the majority of male deaths (http://www.menshealthweek.org.au/En/Pages/ee4d91/Why-Men-s-Health.aspx)
MHIR...
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Today's Sydney Morning Herald features an article by Guy Mosel titled 21st century man: lost and anachronistic. Overall it's a very good overview of the various strands of the men's movement. However, it suffers from a couple of problems that most med...
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This book is, in a word, courageous, in one sense in particular: it exposes how ideologies, “isms”
based on an assumed superiority in which one group feels entitled to power over another, have no
place in the quest for social justice, equal...
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We are witnessing a disturbing tend to “enshrine” male circumcision into law, shielding the practice from health and safety regulation of any kind. This trend precedes any honest attempt to assess “morbidity,” the unavoidable co...
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The Acting Minister for the Status of Women, Jenny Macklin, today called for public comment to help develop the next stage of the Australian Government’s landmark workplace gender equality reforms.
The introduction of the Workplace Gender Equalit...
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The Weekend Australian, Saturday December 22, 2012
Australia’s feminised curriculum puts boys at a significant disadvantage
ANGELA SHANAHAN
IT is an experience I have relived eight times, the stomach churning anticipation as we wait in agony for...
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The NSW Government Legislative Council’s Standing Committee on Social Issues this week released their report on domestic violence trends and issues in NSW: the first ever to acknowledge the existence, needs, barriers to reporting and barriers to ...
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Battling stereotypes … preschool worker Craig d'Arcy has set up the Males in Early Childhood Network Group. Photo: Greg Mace
As a young man eager to get into a boom industry with a robust future, Craig d'Arcy spent several years as the only male stu...
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Australia will be the first country to offer males free access to the cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil, after the federal government announced it would spend $21 million to immunise nearly 900,000 boys across four years.
The new program, which will sta...
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In this month's issue:
new report shows gaps in male health policy
NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN - emale readers ticket offer
Men’s Health Week 2012 a huge success
PM’s partner promotes men’s health
Grants to study Māori men’s heal...
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John Macdonald is Foundation Chair in Primary Health Care at the University of Western Sydney (UWS). John is currently the Director of the Men's Health Information & Resource Centre at UWS.
Presented by Margaret Throsby
John Macdonald has 10 years...
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A new law to promote gender equality in Australian workplaces is a step closer following the passage of the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Amendment Bill 2012 through the House of Representatives late yesterday.
Helen Conway, Director of ...
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The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) report on men’s health focuses the spotlight on widely unrecognised aspects of male health. This could mean that policy can now address men’s health in a much more holistic manner.
The ...
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95% of people now agree that both parents should share responsibility for bringing up children and 84% say both parents deserve equal custody rights.
In response to the current shake-up of the family justice system, there is a strong consensus among B...
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Separated parents who fail to allow their partners to maintain a proper relationship with their children could be stripped of driving licences or passports, hit with curfews, ordered to do a period of unpaid work or even jailed.
Ministers will today pr...
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