In this Whitlam legacy paper, Elizabeth Reid revisits the feminist revolution of the Whitlam years and her place at the nexus of the women's liberation movement and the Whitlam Government.

An evaluation to assess the suitability of the National Women’s Alliances model as a vehicle for bringing women’s voices to the Australian Government to inform policy development. The evaluation involved a desktop review and interviews with selected stakeholders of the program.

This year, the 17th edition of the Global Gender Gap Index benchmarks gender parity across 146 countries, providing a basis for robust cross-country analysis. Further, examining a subset of 102 countries that have been included in every edition of the index since 2006 provides a large constant sample for time-series analysis.

Recognising that the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda is not an add-on to the security agenda, but is intrinsic to it, this paper suggests that there is scope for Australia to progress genuine partnership with the Pacific and support these efforts through greater collaboration.

Another generation of women will have to wait for gender parity, according to this report. As the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to be felt, closing the global gender gap has increased by a generation from 99.5 years to 135.6 years.