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Ramesh Shrestha says male early educators are facing discrimination and having shifts cancelled due to the allegations that Joshua Brown sexually abused children in his care.

‘They’ve sent a male’: Childcare centres shadow-ban men

Male early learning educators say they are being stood down, dismissed from casual pools or having their work placements cancelled.

  • Nicole Precel

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Astronomer CEO Andy Byron was caught allegedly having an affair with his company’s chief people officer at a Coldplay concert.

Kiss Cam whammy made us chuckle, but it has triggered my bonk ban fixation

Workplace romances are almost always a bad idea. I’ve observed my share of HR (human relations) disasters.

  • Jenna Price
Sydney trains

How ‘boys club’ at Sydney Trains puts female workmates at risk of harm

A confidential report contains personal accounts that are damning of the male-dominated workplace at the country’s largest passenger rail operator.

  • Matt O'Sullivan
Jennifer Dowd. 52, recently bought her first home in Sydney’s inner-west.

Jennifer bought a home. But buyers like her face an $85,000 penalty

She’s not alone in finding high property prices a challenge, but new modelling lays bare how the playing field is stacked.

  • Caroline Zielinski
Liberal Party leadership hopefuls Angus Taylor and Sussan Ley.

Taylor undercuts Ley on gender quotas, saying they ‘subvert democracy’

Days after Sussan Ley said she was open to the Liberal Party having gender quotas when it came to selecting candidates, Angus Taylor shut down the idea.

  • Olivia Ireland
Opposition Leader Sussan Ley during a podcast interview in the Nine studio, at Parliament House in Canberra on Thursday, June 26, 2025.

‘I was completely singled out’: Sussan Ley’s past fuels her determination to fix party’s future

It’s been “burned in” the federal opposition leader since before she came to parliament. And it’s why she’s so insistent now she’s at the top.

  • Jacqueline Maley and James Massola
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NSW Opposition Leader Mark Speakman says his parliamentary party is more diverse than Labor’s.

Speakman says quotas no longer necessary for the NSW Libs

Federal Liberal Leader Sussan Ley has left a decision on quotas to each state division. The NSW leader says his state has ended the boys’ club in the party.

  • Alexandra Smith and Jessica McSweeney
Liberal Leader Sussan Ley has broken with her predecessors to approve the principle of quotas.

Liberal leader shares moment of vulnerability, speaks of the pain of coercive control

In a speech traversing the personal and political, Sussan Ley opened the door to gender equality quotas, saying it was “fine” if Liberal state divisions imposed them.

  • Olivia Ireland
Preference for boys is fading among regions where it was strongest at a rapid rate.

Phew, it’s a girl! The stunning decline of the preference for having boys

Millions of girls were aborted simply for being girls. Now parents often lean towards them.

  • The Economist
Police Minister Yasmin Catley answers a question in the NSW Legislative Assembly this week.

‘A sexist man’: Catley slams Speakman after he calls her ‘hysterical’

The NSW Liberal leader made the comments on the same day he slammed a Victorian party elder for claiming Liberal women were “sufficiently assertive”.

  • Penry Buckley and Alexandra Smith

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