The Wire

The Democratic Audit of Australia, based at The Australian National University, conducts regular test on how healthy our democracy is. On the issue of gender equality Australia’s democracy was once a world leader. But the latest audit, on how well democracy serves Australian women, makes for pessimistic reading. One of the authors of the report, Emma Partridge is a social researcher at the Institute for Sustainable Futures, based at the University of Technology, Sydney. Today she delivered an address on the findings of her report.