Sex Discrimination Commissioner Elizabeth Broderick said: "There are fewer big Australian companies that are run by women than by men named Peter."

Lifeline Australia chairman John Brogden claims Australia's road toll has decreased significantly to less than half the number of deaths by suicide.

A diverse, independent media is seen as central to a functioning democracy, yet Australia now has one of the most concentrated media environments in the Western world. The author asks how we got here in the first place and whether it even matters now that we're all online.

Amid concerns that children are exposed to thousands of alcohol advertisements during sport broadcasts, the Brewers Association claims there is no link or very little link between alcohol advertising and alcohol misuse, including underage drinking.

The Government has responded to the unfolding humanitarian crisis in the Middle East by announcing Australia will take an additional 12,000 refugees fleeing Syria and Iraq in 2015-16, which Foreign Minister Julie Bishop claims amounts to the single larges