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Virginia Bell appointed to lead antisemitism royal commission after Bondi terror attack

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Australia’s progress isn’t translating into equality for all women

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Who decides which countries need ‘liberating’? The Venezuela crisis and the fragility of international law

Why grieving a pet can be as hard as grieving a person

Minneapolis mayor rejects Trump’s self-defence claim after ICE officer kills 37-year-old woman

What you should know about the many faces of coercive control

Goolagong is a compelling and inspiring mini-series – a story for all Australians

How an International Court judge thinks about hope

Writers pull the pin on Adelaide Writers’ Week after Palestinian-Australian author Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah dropped

‘De-centre the romance scripts’: Why 2026 demands a new intimate politics

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Minneapolis mayor rejects Trump’s self-defence claim after ICE officer kills 37-year-old woman

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Goolagong is a compelling and inspiring mini-series – a story for all Australians

Pressure mounts on Elon Musk’s X over Grok deepfakes of women and girls

Venus Williams scores Australian Open wildcard

A fresh start feels powerful – until motivation fades. Here’s how to set work goals that stick

I used to put off my cervical screening. Then my GP handed me a self-collect swab

From contraception to menopause and IVF: How $25 scripts will reshape women’s health

How emboldened is Trump after Venezuela? Mette Frederiksen tells him to back off over Greenland

Bruce Lehrmann (going back for his hat again) takes defamation fight to Australia’s Highest Court

Why Australia’s new Aged Care Act will fail women unless we rewrite how we view ageing

French court finds 10 guilty of cyber-harassing first lady Brigitte Macron

Who is Cilia Flores, the wife of ousted Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro?

When women’s labour is so invisible, it’s not even in the photos

How women leaders have responded to Trump’s strikes on Venezuela and Maduro removal

Prominent Holocaust survivor & Anne Frank’s step sister Eva Schloss dies, aged 96

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