Soapbox

Launched this week by national non-profit Violet, Agehood is hosted by Violet CEO Melissa Reader and features intimate conversations with some of Australia’s most trusted voices.

Skorts were once a truly progressive item of clothing, allowing women and girls to engage in sport more easily. Is that still the case?

The Erin Patterson case has taught us something unsettling: even in the face of so-called justice, misogyny always finds a way to surface.

If the Epstein files case teaches us anything, it’s that justice delayed is justice denied, writes Rita Nasr.

UN Women’s Executive Director, Sima Bahous, called this a “historic and precarious moment”. She’s right. We are standing at a crossroads.

In this moment of national grief and reckoning, the last thing families need is guilt piled on top of their fear and distress.

We need a national inquiry to fix failing child safety systems and protect children from evolving sexual abuse threats.

Sandwich generation women juggle work, kids, and ageing parents daily, it’s exhausting, but it builds resilience, empathy, and strength.

Women played a vital, often overlooked role in flood recovery, leading long-term community efforts with unpaid work, care, and expertise.

The “menopausal load” names the emotional, mental, physical, and social burdens women carry silently through midlife and beyond.

This year’s Cost of Living Index from Anglicare Australia paints a bleak picture of what it’s like to raise a child on the minimum wage.

The suggestion by Angus Taylor that gender quotas “subvert democracy” reflects a narrow understanding of what true democratic representation means.