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'Changed me': deputy leader back after cancer fight
5+ hour, 45+ min ago (380+ words) A second major health battle has "changed" a deputy premier as she returns to the tools after beating cancer. NSW Deputy Premier Prue Car went on leave in June after revealing she had been diagnosed with breast cancer. The 43-year-old…...
Brigitte Macron apologises for feminist activist insult
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (520+ words) France's first lady has defended her use of a sexist slur to denounce feminist protesters, saying the comments were "clumsy" but made in private when "I didn't see that someone behind me was filming"." Speaking to online media outlet Brut,…...
'Not about girl bosses': Virginia Haussegger's warning to young women
4+ mon, 2+ day ago (776+ words) Virginia Haussegger is dead serious when she says it's time for a revolution. The Canberra journalist has been writing about feminism and gender equity for decades, but plenty has changed in the last five years. Hell, she says, things have…...
Out of defence and on the front line of the culture wars. What is Hastie doing?
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (575+ words) My god. What has got into Andrew Hastie? The Western Australian MP, now opposition spokesman for home affairs, told ABC radio he was prepared to quit the shadow frontbench or be sacked if the Liberal Party didn't abandon its 2050 net-zero…...
ANU feminists slam cuts for 'destroying' gender studies program
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (770+ words) Feminist academics at the Australian National University have accused the ANU leadership of undermining progress towards fairness for women with their radical shake-up in staffing and departments currently underway. The gender studies academics said that cut-backs in their field went…...
Critiquing a woman's leadership is not sexism. This is about power
9+ mon, 3+ week ago (1284+ words) ANU staff accuse leadership of mismanaging restructure controversy. Is sexism truly to blame? Insightful analysis from top gender experts. It is deeply unsettling when an exceptionally powerful woman, such as a university's vice-chancellor and president, attributes the criticism she receives…...
Shove your cupcake. What we need desperately need is a revolution
10+ mon, 3+ week ago (806+ words) Never has a women's revolution been so desperately needed. Right here. Right now. Australian women kickstarted one 50 years ago. We need to crank it up again. On this day, International Women's Day, 1975, prime minister Gough Whitlam called for a "revolution…...