Gender Inequality and Satisfaction with Marriage. Alysha Gray from The University of Queensland and ⁦@lifecourseAust⁩ explores the social and economic impacts of unequal relationships⁩ - Power to Persuade ⁦⁦⁦@AntiPovertyWeek⁩

Better Sleep Starts at Home - research from Dr Shannon Edmed and Professor Simon Smith from ⁦@UQ_News⁩ and ⁦⁦@lifecourseAust⁩ on sleep as an indicator and mechanism of disadvantage - Power to Persuade #antipovertyweek

Poverty. Place. Policy. David Tennant explores the intersections on the eve of Anti-Poverty Week 2025 — Power to Persuade

The rights of migrant women in Australia: addressing gendered exploitation in temporary work — Ananya Doundiyal in Power to Persuade

Visa, Voice, and Vulnerability: How Immigration Status Shapes Access to Justice for Chinese Women Facing Domestic Violence — Manjin Zhang in Power to Persuade

"Simply put, we need visionary policy that commits to significantly raising public housing stock," say Cordelia Attenborough and Elroy Dearn in today's Power to Persuade blog: https://t.co/7V5xUzqI3n.

In today’s post, Professor Hannah Badland from RMIT University explores why neighbourhoods matter for the health of children with disability, an area largely overlooked in Australian disability policy. https://t.co/IH12qsvc97 @ResearchRMIT

Today’s post by @SimonCopland explores the rising influence of global anti-feminist and far-right movements, and why our current strategies to prevent them are falling short.

Children with incarcerated parents face unique challenges. Read Dr Vicky Saunders' insights into how systems often overlook these impacts and what can be done to better support affected children.

Why is sociology essential to social policy?🤔 As Athena Charanne Presto argues, ignoring sociological insights, especially when it comes to gender and care policy, leads to decisions that are anything but neutral.

We are also definitely talking about a breach of the legislative authority granted to DSS/Services Australia to 'provide benefits' in the first place if anyone wanted to pay a barrister twice as much to go after that one

New post @simonecasey explains why not shutting down the TCF, including payment suspensions, is a form of administrative evil because providers interests have been prioritised over the rights of people routinely subject to abusive provider practices. https://t.co/hs74Tpkmw3

New on the blog: Enhancing ambition on climate policy through co-design - @belle_workman & Kathryn Bowen @MCFunimelb walk us through their experience of co-designing healthier climate policies (and share the toolkit!) https://t.co/Ad7TRlx9cO

New on the blog - How to Improve Decision Making in Public Administration – Reflections from the NDIS from Andrew Joyce & @fibuick @CSIsocialimpact & @UNSW https://t.co/cB9tsrnPMY

Just how important is green space to health? New on the blog - Planting the seeds of prevention: How green spaces can transform public health @RongbinXu Tingting Ye & @YumingGuo007 @MonashMSDI share their research that unpacks surprising benefits https://t.co/Dpnf8DROwD

Sindoor and the Symbolism of Strength: Gender, Identity, and Strategic Narrative in the 2025 India-Pakistan Conflict (Indian Perspective) — Akrti Tyagi in Power to Persuade

CSW Amateurs: Reflections from Our First Time at the Commission on the Status of Women — Laura Campbell and Georgia Shakeshaft in Power to Persuade

In today's post @Sarahrcyb looks at the case of Robodebt and the importance of the public service doing the right thing, not just the thing right.

This week I wrote a short blog post for @PowerToPersuade reflecting on the challenges for organisations learning from failures, particularly where that failure was “someone else’s fault,” or happened “over there,” drawing on the Australian case of Robodebt.

In today's post @DanielCasey_CBR explores how government communicated internally about the lessons to be learned from Robodebt.