Tia Haralabakos is a Media Communications student at Monash University specialising in Journalism and human rights. She is interested in the multi-faceted landscape of digital media, particularly addressing challenges to online reporting like diversity and content moderation. Tia’s journalistic interests include human rights and social affairs.
HUMANITARIAN aid organisation, Care Australia, has launched a new initiative in time for International Women’s Day on Tuesday, 8 March. The Her Circle campaign aims to generate a domino effect of female empowerment by utilising the ‘multiplier effect’. Care Australia’s Head of…
ON January 25, 2022, the Productivity Commission released a report on federal government services, showcasing the increase of rental stress on low-income households. Rental Stress is spending more than 30 per cent of gross household income on rent, as defined by the…
THE Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has proposed 38 recommendations to reform Australia’s federal discrimination law system, part of the Free and Equal project which launched December 10, 2021. Free and Equal: An Australian Conversation on Human Rights began in 2020 as an extensive consultation…
RAINBOW Families, an organisation that supports LGBTQI+ parents and their children, has generated resources unique to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer families. The organisation has been at the forefront of advocating for LGBTQI+ parents since its establishment in 2016, notably producing…
THE Government of Tonga is in a state of emergency after an underwater volcano erupted on Jan 15, 2022, triggering tsunamis and ash plumes across the archipelago. The ash-stained South Pacific Kingdom is now suffering the tsunami’s after-effects, according to the United…
CHARITY provided meals have never been more crucial this Christmas as new statistics from FoodBank Australia reveal a rise in food insecurity across the nation. Published in October 2021, the Foodbank Hunger Report found one in six Australian adults are severely food insecure and…
A NEW digital resource entered the media sphere in November 2021, putting an onus on journalists to up the standard of disability reporting. The Disability Reporting Handbook is a digital resource designed to change the narrative of disability in the media launched…
SIXTEEN days from November 25 to December 10, are marked for activism against gender-based violence by UN Women as findings from a new report reveal violence against women exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic. Measuring the Shadow Pandemic: violence against women during COVID-19 confirms…
CITI Australia’s philanthropic arm CITI Foundation provides community partners over $1 million to help disadvantaged Australian youth find their feet in the workforce. The grants are part of the Pathways to Progress program which launched in 2014 as a job skill-building initiative…
THE United Nations (UN) International Day for Tolerance marking its 125th anniversary this Tuesday invites Australians to generate public awareness on the dangers of cultural intolerance. Tolerance is “respect, acceptance and appreciation of the rich diversity of our world’s cultures, our forms…
