Ed's Blog ‘Don’t put up with it?’ Cost of leaving family violence up 71% in ten years Domestic violence is a “two way street” according to Pauline Hanson and women “should just leave”. But leaving is far from affordable and safe.
Politics Tony Abbott’s return as party president exposes the Liberal Party’s major identity crisis Tony Abbott declared that multiculturalism had “failed” Australia, sounding more like Pauline Hanson than Pauline Hanson herself.
News & Views Poolside with a billionaire, podcast with the far-right: A week in the life for Pauline Hanson Pauline Hanson has had a busy winter parliamentary break. She’s jetted off to Europe and has been spotted enjoying some poolside time with Gina Rinehart.
News & Views Can the Liberal Party rebuild and win back women voters before they move on for good? An internal Liberal Party commission has released a discussion paper looking at options to renew the party’s base and gain electoral support.
News & Views Zohran Mamdani’s latest policy recognises what modern parents really need Mayor Zohran Mamdani has announced the city’s first-ever Parents’ Night Out program that started rolling out this week.
News & Views Sextortion is rising and eSafety says Big Tech isn’t doing enough to prevent it Australians made just over 2000 complaints about sexual extortion over six months, with young men aged 18 to 24 the most affected.
News & Views The Liberal Party helped build multicultural Australia. Now it won’t say the word. Andrew Hastie believes there is a “third way” for Australia, a path somewhere between Pauline Hanson’s monoculturalism and multiculturalism.
Soapbox I lived the male prison nightmare that NSW has just made policy A prison officer looked at me, looked at the men’s prison I had been sent to, and eventually recognised the obvious mistake. The NSW Government has now created a system that risks turning that mistake into policy.
News & Views Another woman has been killed. Australia’s femicide toll has reached 36 this year A man has been arrested after a 39-year-old woman was fatally stabbed at a home in Vermont in Victoria last night.
News & Views Independent review to investigate child safety response after four-year-old’s alleged murder on Central Coast The NSW government has launched an independent review into the case of a four-year-old boy who was allegedly murdered by his mother.
Soapbox Shag, Marry, Date. How our Prime Minister reminded us where women still sit The issue is about why he agreed to play a game built entirely around sorting women into categories of male consumption:
Politics After losing on birthright citizenship, Trump looks to ban pregnant women from entering US After losing a bid to end birthright citizenship, the Trump administration had directed its focus into a plan to block pregnant women from entering the US.