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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. In their pursuit of profits, social media platforms have fostered harmful environments where social discord, misinformation and disinformation flourish.

The tell-all memoir Mark Zuckerberg tried to stop you reading

It’s hard to know whether the Facebook boss’s symbolic ways of currying favour with China are more remarkable than Meta’s apparent plan to let the Communist Party snoop on users outside the country.

  • Nick Bonyhady

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Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, at the SXSW conference in Austin, is busy building a media brand.

I was wrong about Meghan. Hustling, humourless Meghan deserves respect

It’s time for me to make a mea culpa to Meghan. While we’re eye-rolling about her trad-wife cosplay we’re missing the plot twist.

  • Kate Halfpenny
There’s a broad selection of new books to read this March.

A controversial artwork, a reckoning and a posthumous release: 12 new books to delve into

The weather may be starting to cool down, but the books are heating up. Here are some of the best being published in March.

  • Jason Steger
Former Australian of the Year Grace Tame wore the t-shirt at The Lodge.

Tame Grace? Good luck with that. I delight in her brave belligerence

As a lifelong feminist, witnessing the blunt and precise advocacy of women like Grace Tame fills me with joy.

  • Jane Caro
Nikki Gemmell: “He’d envisaged me as the woman who’d look after the kids...He didn’t see me as a creative equal.”

Nikki Gemmell’s new ‘feminist’ novel has baffled me

Wing features a cast of truly awful, nasty people. What is Gemmell trying to achieve here?

  • Helen Elliott

Wicked unveils the tyranny of feminine niceness – and that’s why your daughters must see it

The new blockbuster movie of the stage show Wicked calculates the cost of female niceness and has radical things to say about the way women are cast into rigid roles.

  • Jacqueline Maley
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Viggo Mortensen wrote, directed, stars in and composed the music for The Dead Don’t Hurt.

‘I make the movie I want to see’: The unusual side of Viggo Mortensen’s new western

The Dead Don’t Hurt is both a traditional western and a reinvention – one that puts the story of an ordinary woman front-and-centre.

  • Karl Quinn
Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear have composed the soundtrack for Moana 2.

From Bridgerton to Moana: The TikTok stars making history at Disney

Songwriters Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear are the first of their kind to create a Disney soundtrack.

  • Louise Rugendyke

In Trump’s America, women don’t feel safe to date. Neither do these Aussies

The 4B movement, a radical feminist movement originating in South Korea, has seen a surge in interest from women in the West.

  • Lauren Ironmonger
From left, Saint Eugenia, Julian of Norwich and Hilda of Whitby are among the women being resurrected by literature. 

These women were extraordinary. So how did we forget about them?

They were saints and scholars, radicals and trailblazers. Finally, their stories are being told.

  • Emily Maguire

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