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This paper traces the development of gender-sensitive budget audits and their distinguishing features. It discusses the economic and political rationales for these exercises and the insights that are beginning to emerge from them. It concludes that realising the potential of these exercises to scrutinise government activities for their gender and class impacts requires contesting both orthodox economic ideas and policies and conventional budgetary politics.

Imagine living in a culture where a blood moon is an indication of the end of time. Imagine a child who was raised in that culture witnessing a blood moon minutes before her death. Imagine that child blaming her death on that moon instead of an overzealous parent who believed that sparing the rod would spoil the child. Imagine children growing up handicapped because of parents who took it upon themselves to punish their children to the point of physical disfigurement. The Blood Moon Sealed My Fate tells the story of a young boy who experienced many of those horrific acts, many of them justified by the religion of his parents and their pastor. This dark but captivating tale of physical, mental, verbal, and religious abuse comes partially from a true story the author was entrusted with; however, she chose to fictionalize the book to protect the guilty.

Santa's "other" reindeer start a professional advertising campaign to help people remember their names as well as the more famous Rudolph.

Gender-responsive budgeting is an analysis of the impact of a budget on gender equality as well as a process of changing budgetary decision-making and priorities. This report reviews gender-responsive budgeting in Australia at a federal level over the last 30 years. It looks at policies and policy making of the Hawke, Keating, Howard, Rudd, and Gillard governments over these years, including the family allowance and 'Baby Bonus' policies, caregiving, paid parental leave and child care, and the Women's Budget Statement.

This study addresses the question of whether, and under what conditions, policies such as the introduction of parental leave have the potential to achieve meaningful shifts in the existing gender order within a society towards a more equal dual earner-carer household structure. It examines the new parental leave policy introduced in Australia in 2011 and compares it to recent policy developments in Europe, in the areas of levels of remuneration, father participation, flexibility, job protection, and parallel policies.