The U.S Women’s Soccer team aren’t giving up their pursuit for equal pay without 100% commitment. It started in 2016, when five members of the team filed a complaint with the Equal Employm…
Cardinal George Pell sentenced to six years in prison for ‘callous & brazen’ abuse
Chief Judge Peter Kidd has sentenced Cardinal George Pell to six years in jail for the ‘violent’ and ‘brazen’ abuse of two choirboys in Melbourne in 1996. The sentence includes…
‘For many survivors it will be immensely challenging’: The sentencing of Cardinal George Pell
On Wednesday the 13th of March in Melbourne County Court’s at 10am Chief Judge Peter Kidd will sentence Cardinal George Pell for sexually abusing two choirboys in the 1990s. It follows Pell bein…
It’s time to stop excusing NRL ‘bad boys’ for their toxic behaviour towards women
Last Tuesday, 22-year old Penrith Panthers player, Tyrone May, was charged by police after videos emerged on social media in which he reportedly filmed two sexual encounters with women who did not kno…
50,000 women are murdered by partners and family members globally. Laws are a message to women that they matter
Fifty thousand women are killed by their partners or family members globally in one year, according to the most recent UN data. But 49 countries still do not have legislation that specifically address…
Women at least 12 years off financial equality in Australia
The latest Women’s Index is out and while Bianca Hartge-Hazelman would love to report that the push for economic equality is getting easier, the truth is anything but. She shares more from the finding…
What I learned from editing a book about abortion
Somewhere in those first few days after I had agreed to edit a book about abortion, I began to realise just how little I knew about it. I had no idea that it was truly illegal in parts of Australia st…
