Sport

Australia’s top tier domestic football leagues have been rebranded as A-League Men and A-League Women in a bid to promote inclusivity.

The pandemic has seen Cricket Australia has fallen short of on some of its gender equality targets over the past year.

Netball Queensland has caused a furore this week, after allowing an all-boys team to compete in the Under 18 State Championships.

A group of prominent athletes have urged the supreme court to protect abortion rights ahead of an upcoming Mississippi case that threatens to overturn Roe v Wade.

A new film portrays how the Mum’s Gone Climbing community is redefining some of the restrictive expectations about motherhood.

2.44 million viewers tuned in to watch the women’s US Open final between unheralded teenagers Emma Raducanu and Leylah Fernandez on ESPN.

Next week, Chloë McCardel will attempt her 42nd swim across the English Channel, a notoriously difficult 32-kilometre journey.

Emma Raducanu’s triumph comes just months after her untimely early retirement from Wimbledon, when she suffered some breathing difficulties.

The Taliban has ruled women will “not be permitted to play sports as it will expose their bodies or expose them to the media.”

The Australian government has granted protection visas to eight members of Afghanistan’s national women’s taekwondo team.

Ellie Cole became Australia’s most decorated female Paralympian of all time, as the government announced equal medal bonuses.

British Paralympic swimmer Ellie Robinson finished fifth in the S6 50m butterfly final in Tokyo. She said it’s a triumph, “not defeat”.