The recently appointed Sex Discrimination Commissioner and Commissioner Responsible for Age Discrimination, Ms Elizabeth Broderick, has spent the last few months undertaking a National Listening Tour to ascertain the views of Australians on three key themes:

To date the Commissioner and her staff have run men's and women's focus groups, spoken to men and women at workplaces, unions, business round-tables, academic round-tables, community groups and public consultations, in both city and regional areas. Information collected from this consultation will be used to inform the agenda for her 5 year term.

On Monday 11th February, a discussion was held at the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission covering a number of issues of concern to Australian men and boys. In attendance were the Commissioner, two of her staff members, Greg Andresen (media liaison, Men's Health Australia and researcher, Dads on the Air), Micheal Woods (Senior Lecturer, Men's Health Information & Resource Centre, University of Western Sydney) and Maggie Hamilton (author, "What Men Don't Talk About").

If you'd like to find out more about the issues discussed at this meeting, you can download a Summary Report on the meeting from here, a Full Report from here, and a Briefing Paper that was prepared for the meeting from here.