For most kids Book Week is about dressing up and getting out of lessons, but some pious schools are ramping up the pressure on costumes, even banning superhero outfits because of their stereotypical gender portrayals.
Who the hell cares that B-girl Raygun looked like Kath from Kath & Kim or that she didn’t win a single Olympic point? It’s what she did next that really mattered.
Having spent years creating legal turmoil for many others, it was inevitable that Brittany Higgins’ actions caught up with her — even from the other side of the world.
Jack Black’s ridiculous decision to cancel Tenacious D’s Australian tour over a silly off-the-cuff remark is proof a heartfelt apology no longer puts things right.
New audio shows Lisa Wilkinson had clearly made up her mind that Bruce Lehrmann was guilty, way before any court convicted him.
Australia’s top cop says Gen Z needs praise “three times a week” but how will our youth ever learn to confront their own failings if we keep playing the affirmation game?
While the ABC must take Stan Grant’s allegations seriously, the last thing we need is another organisation reviewing itself to discover whether it is racist.
Despite some worthy measures to help battlers, middle income earners will be looking through this budget asking “what about me?”.
There are many important conversations we must have about the bloated British monarchy but viewers tuning in to watch the coronation didn’t want tales of genocide shoved down their throats.
Suggestions of chants of allegiance to King Charles during the coronation are tone-deaf — the entrenched privilege of the monarchy has no place in a modern democracy.
Please rid our lovely city streets, paths, parks and waterways of these lurid louts, or if scooters are to be made permanent there needs to be stricter rules, writes Susie O’Brien.
A politicised school curriculum which teaches only one side of highly complex debates fails us all.
Affirmative consent is an important topic for sex ed class but less likely to be relevant to dark films with flawed characters making bad choices — so let’s keep the classification off our movies.
Making a transgender, non-binary activist the face of a women’s swimwear brand is just courting controversy for the sake of it.
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