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Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively.

Texts, lies and videotape: Making sense of the Blake Lively-Justin Baldoni case

It’s the highest profile celebrity feud we’ve seen for years and – more than ever – it pays to be sceptical about what you hear.

  • Kerrie O'Brien

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Travis Head.

Head gives up T20 gigs for Australia duty; Refugee cricketers send a message to the Taliban

Travis Head has agreed to give up Twenty20 franchise opportunities outside the Big Bash League and the IPL, while the Afghanistan women cricketers who take the field in Melbourne this week know their game is about more than runs and wickets.

  • Jon Pierik and Daniel Brettig
US President Donald Trump listens to Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde. “Not too exciting,” he said.

What to know about Trump’s ‘two-sex’ executive order

Donald Trump said his gender-related executive orders were aimed at ending efforts to “socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life”.

Lucy Small during the Bells Beach Longboard Classic in 2023.

‘National disrepute’: Equal prizemoney advocate denied entry in surf competition

Lucy Small has been denied entry to the 2025 Noosa Festival of Surfing for comments made to the media that organisers say were false.

  • Frances Howe
Mary Lee (1821–1909) was a key figure in the women’s suffrage movement at the end of the 19th century, one of the first initiatives advancing gender equality. Image: State Library of South Australia

These wowser women aren’t obvious feminist heroes. But their rallying cry rings through the ages

Exactly 130 years ago, women in South Australia were granted the right to vote. It was the culmination of a crusade against the demon drink, and family violence.

  • Justine Toh
Wendy Tuck is ready for her 16th Sydney to Hobart race.

Wendy learnt to sail from a kids’ book. Now she’s taking on a notorious stretch of water for the 17th time

Skipper Wendy Tuck has sailed around the world, but never takes the Bass Strait for granted.

  • Tim Barlass
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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
Many studies have demonstrated women are more sensitive to pain.

‘We offer anaesthetic but only men need it’: The persistent myth about pain

Do women or men have a higher threshold for pain? It’s a question that raises a number of problems with Australia’s medical system.

  • Wendy Tuohy
Sophie Miller is back on her bike for the first time since she was a kid.

Catcalls, aggression, male domination: Why women aren’t cycling

Women are avoiding riding bikes because Victoria’s transport networks are set up for the needs and safety perceptions of confident, physically fit men. 

  • Cara Waters

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

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