News & Views ‘Discrimination is not welcome’: Tina Rahimi slams France’s hijab ban at Olympics Australian boxer Tina Rahimi has criticised France’s hijab ban for female athletes at the Olympics, saying “no one should be excluded”.
News & Views Talks from American ‘chastity speaker’ cancelled at Australian schools after parent backlash A conservative American ‘chastity speaker’ travelling to Australia to speak at Catholic high schools has received a wave of backlash.
News & Views Ireland to remove constitutional sexist language that relegates women to the home As religious ideology has historically been woven into institutions around the world, these entities are forced to reckon with women’s rights.
News & Views Plenary Council of Australia amends rules to better reflect the experience of women in Catholic Church Plenary Council of Australia have passed a motion to revise a version of the section on the equal dignity of women in the Catholic Church.
News & Views Australia: More millennial, more multilingual and less religious than last time India is now the third-largest birthplace of Australian residents behind Australia and England, while for the first time less than half of the population has identified as Christian, according to the census
News & Views Morrison’s ideological agenda fuelled Margaret Court’s recent honour… but the decision was politically stupid Court’s homophobic views spurred by her Pentecostal faith aren’t ones that are shared by the majority of Australians but they are shared by certain members of the government.
News & Views Evangelical churches believe men should control women. That’s why they breed domestic violence Evangelical Christian churches say a man’s authority is in God’s plan. The belief that men control women breeds domestic violence.
News & Views Why does the Catholic Church continue to ignore half the population? Women hold less than 3% of leadership roles in the Catholic Church despite making up over 60% of the membership, Stephanie Lorenzo reflects on why.
News & Views Note to Margaret Court: the Bible isn’t meant to be read that literally Margaret Court is wrong to claim marriage is “a union between a man and a woman as stated in the Bible”, as she did in her open letter to Qantas.
Soapbox Can we truly reconcile organised religion and feminism? Can we reconcile organised religion & feminism? I find it hard to merge the idea of being a feminist with an inherently patriarchal religion.