Soapbox Covering up animal abuse protects society’s worst offenders NSW parliament is currently debating a bill that allow authorities to receive undercover footage and investigate when in the public interest.
News & Views New law to ban bullying parents from entering schools A lot of teachers are leaving the sector due to stress and a lack of support in the classrooms. This is just adding to the issue.
News & Views No, AI can’t estimate a woman’s ‘body count’ but that’s not really the point A new misogynistic website called “Check Her Body Count” claims to use AI to “check” a woman’s body count.
News & Views Australia’s housing crisis isn’t gender neutral and women are paying the price Housing systems are not gender neutral, and the current crisis is exposing that reality.
Ed's Blog Global talks on women’s rights reveal a shift from progress to preservation Too much energy was spent dealing with the US-led shenanigans and attempts at hijacking the event for a Trump agenda.
World When you burn every bridge and then need a boat: Trump’s Hormuz Humiliation You cannot spend a year humiliating partners, slapping them with tariffs and calling their leaders fools and then expect them to sail their warships into your war.
News & Views The women taking Australia’s most toxic site to the United Nations The fight to clean up Wittenoom has reached the United Nations, after a Banjima Traditional Owner travelled to Geneva.
News & Views Raissa Butkowski picked as Liberal candidate for Farrer byelection Local lawyer and councillor Raissa Butkowski has been selected as the Liberal Party candidate for the upcoming Farrer byelection.
World Pentagon bars press photographers after “unflattering” photos of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth The US Defense Department has barred press photographers from briefings after Pete Hegseth’s staff deem his photos “unflattering”.
News & Views The war’s civilian toll has no gender lens, and it should Since the US and Israel launched strikes on Iran, war has spread rapidly across the Middle East. There is no gender lens on the death toll.
News & Views Globally, the rate of cabinet posts held by women has decreased as political leadership overwhemingly dominated by men War overshadowed this week’s International Women’s Day, despite various events and activities hoping to ignore the global realities of escalating conflict, displacement, climate change and growing risks of gender-based violence on women and girls internationally.
Local Parliament passes LISTO reform to boost retirement savings for low-income women Parliament has passed new legislation to realign the Low-Income Superannuation Tax Offset, a reform to help low-income women.
