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Owen Cooper as Jamie Miller in the four-part drama Adolescence.

Adolescence has gripped parents, but our debates are missing a crucial thread

Add misogynistic influencers to the mix of feelings of inadequacy and hopelessness, and a growing wealth gap, and you have most of the ingredients for gendered violence.

  • Sonia Orchard

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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
Women and girls now make up the majority of reported Islamophobic incidents in Australia.

The unspoken truth about attacks on Muslims? Men are targeting women and girls

When abuse against women and girls occurs because they are women and girls, Australia takes it seriously. How, then, to understand these reports?

  • Susan Carland
Further questionable on-air comments about women from now dumped radio host Marty Sheargold have emerged, including when he said endometriosis was “made up”.

Sure, Sheargold’s opinions are sexist dross. But we’re missing the real point

Marty didn’t suddenly become a misogynist this week. His comments were entirely on brand. So why this sudden moral awakening after he mentioned the Matildas?

  • Kate Halfpenny
Further questionable on-air comments about women from now dumped radio host Marty Sheargold have emerged, including when he said endometriosis was “made up”.

‘Endometriosis? It’s made up’: Sheargold comments resurface

Further questionable on-air comments about women from former Triple M radio host Marty Sheargold have emerged.

  • Thomas Mitchell
Marty Sheargold

Triple M parts ways with Marty Sheargold amid backlash from ‘outrageous’ Matildas comments

Sports Minister Anika Wells led a chorus of condemnation after the radio host’s inflammatory remarks about the national women’s soccer team.

  • Frances Howe
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Marty Sheargold sexist cliches “wouldn’t raise a listless titter from a laugh track”.

Marty’s sexism is sheer gold. Now, where did I put that hammer?

Triple M host strayed offside while on air, and scored a spectacular own goal.

  • Michelle Cazzulino
Marty Sheargold has come under fire for his comments about the Matildas.

Sheargold’s foul-mouthed rant went way beyond the line – even for radio

The boundaries of bad taste and outrage have become blurry, but Marty Sheargold’s staggeringly bad take on the Matildas went beyond anything we’d heard in years.

  • Peter FitzSimons
Phoebe Rizzoli reported sexual harassment to Grossi Florentino.

Kissed without consent: Phoebe’s joy at Grossi Florentino job turned to tears

A sommelier at the famous restaurant kissed the young waitress, but when she reported the incident she was let down.

  • Charlotte Grieve
The State Administrative Tribunal in Perth.

Perth doctor banned after sexually harassing employee

For nearly two years Akinyemi Freeman repeatedly made sexual advances towards the woman, telling her ‘I don’t give up easily’.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt

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