Soapbox

Emma Edwards, founder of The Broke Generation, shares her radical experiment: a whole year without buying a single item of clothing.

The 16 Days should not be a calendar tick-box. It should be a launchpad for laws that protect, funding that sustains, education that prevents, and political courage.

“Just put your phone down” is not helpful advice. We’re not dealing with a bad habit. We’re dealing with something engineered to hook us. 

Dr Juliet Turner celebrated her PhD success on X. And then began the distrurbingly bizarre meltdown from men.

Australia knows how to end gender-based violence. What we lack is the political will to make the fiscal decisions that match the crisis.

Jacquie Thomson is one of a large number of women who police continue to misidentify as primary aggressors instead of as victim/survivors.

Most sexual assault victims enter the legal system without legal protection or any understanding of the process they are stepping into.

No one wins a gender war. We only win when we build bridges of respect, equality and connection, writes Dr Niki Vincent.

This is the moment to count the cost of unreliable care and then commit to building the universal, high-quality, stable care system.

Safety in women’s prisons cannot exist in a system designed to conceal its own violence, writes Tabitha Lean and Debbie Kilroy.

The BOM is an essential service and must be developed and maintained by public servants; not by grifters motivated by sales numbers.

As we mark the start of this global campaign, I want to reiterate something simple but vital: online harms are real harms.