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Host of The Pocket podcast, Chris Griffin.

This man wants women to have more ‘feminine energy’. Be careful what you wish for

Last week, an Australian podcaster declared that he doesn’t want his girlfriend to work unless she chooses to. Unfortunately, his generosity is rooted in gendered gripes.

  • Katy Hall

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The surgeon was seen ripping down and then stomping on the poster.

‘Gotta bury the body’: Surgeon quits Epworth after Kooyong corflute fiasco

Neurosurgeon Greg Malham has left his job in the aftermath of a video showing him tearing down and stomping on one of Monique Ryan’s campaign corflutes.

  • Hannah Hammoud and Grant McArthur
The author with African lion cub triplets Bruiser, Shinyanga and Njeri, in 2000. “Every day was different and exciting, even if the lunchroom was heavy with testosterone,” she says of her time at Taronga Zoo.

At my dream job in the ’80s, the chauvinism surprised me: I blame early zoologists

When Erna Walraven became a zookeeper in the 1980s, she found the attitudes to women positively Darwinian.

  • Erna Walraven
The surgeon was seen ripping down and then stomping on the poster.

‘Chilling’ video shows surgeon stomping on Monique Ryan corflute

A Melbourne surgeon has admitted tearing down the election sign before tutoring men in how to “bury the body”, outraging anti-violence campaigners and politicians.

  • Grant McArthur
Premier Jacinta Allan and then Attorney-General Jaclyn Symes announced the new laws in November.

Hate speech laws pass parliament as Liberals claim freedom of speech is at risk

The long-awaited reforms will make serious vilification – such as incitement of hatred or physical threats – punishable by up to five years’ jail.

  • Daniella White
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

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