Multimedia Reporter: Emily Bennett Each of us knows or at least has an idea of what the fight for gender equality is about, but for Ayesha Hasan, her fight is a world away. Ms Hasan, who is a journalist and a PhD candidate at the University of Wollongong, delivered a talk about gender inequality in her native Pakistan at the Feminist Society’s Free School last Wednesday. During her talk, she outlined the obstacles the women of Pakistan face in their daily lives. These include but are not limited to the threat of sexual violence, physical mutilation, acid attacks and vulnerability…
Author: Jacob Evans
Over the past few years, Oxfam has supported a variety of programs that offer grants to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth to encourage active citizenship. But a trend began to occur with these programs – the same people were applying and receiving the grants, so they were failing to have a wider reach. Oxfam designed the ChangeCourse youth leadership program to equip young Indigenous leaders with the skills to proactively change their communities, and to reach the communities it was missing in previous programs. Of the 30 successful applicants this year, 19-year-old UOW student Marlee Silva was one of the…
Tomorrow, parts of NSW will follow Melbourne and London with the introduction of an electronic transport card system. All train, bus and ferry routes around Sydney, the Blue Mountains, Central Coast, Hunter, Illawarra and the Southern Highlands will only be accessible for commuters with the Opal Card. Similar in size to a credit card, the Opal Card will become a permanent ticket for transportation. Commuters can load value onto their personal card via a range of payment options; including Opal ticket booths and online ‘top-ups’. The system will be new for travellers in NSW, and may take a while to…
The Blues have enlisted the services of debutant Trent Hodkinson and his Bulldogs team mate Josh Reynolds in an attempt to turnaround Queensland’s dominance of State of Origin. UOWTV Reporter Cam Warner has the story: