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Celebrities are becoming unrecognisable. The problem isn’t Ozempic

As reproductive rights are destroyed and female journalists are told to be “quiet, piggy” by the US president, is it a coincidence that women are quietly erasing themselves?

  • Julia Baird

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Andrew Tate (right) and his brother Tristan.

How a manosphere star accused of rape and trafficking was freed

Facing serious charges, Andrew Tate was barred from leaving Romania. Then weeks after Donald Trump took office, an extraordinary order came down from the highest levels of the Romanian government.

  • Megan Twohey and Isabella Kwai
Women MPs  have called out the online harassment they endure.

‘Horribly, sexually violent’: How Australia’s women leaders deal with rising abuse

Women across the political spectrum are calling out the harassment that spreads online and spills into real life.

  • Brittany Busch
Jana Pittman competing at the 2004 Olympic Games, and as a doctor today.

As an Olympian, mum and doctor, I know our health system fails women

I’ve had patients who’ve been told, and I’ve been told, that pain is “just part of being a woman”.

  • Jana Pittman

Women are having sex changes – on LinkedIn

Social media algorithms can really help you market your ideas. If you’re a man.

  • Sarah Curnow
On the 2026 Bluesfest line-up … the band 19-Twenty.

This Bluesfest is a dudefest. Of 35 acts, just five are women

I scrolled down the line-up page, excited to find any female acts. I kept scrolling.

  • Katie McMurray
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New Victorian Liberal Leader Jess Wilson.

The exceptional thing about the battle of the bobs? It’s not exceptional

Julia Gillard says the first woman to do any important job in public life still carries an additional burden.

  • Chip Le Grand
Julia Baird lunching over Skype on her verandah.

Here I am, yet another woman wrecking the joint

A great masthead dared to ask: Did women ruin the workplace? Well, let’s dance on some of those smoking ruins.

  • Julia Baird
Dr Anne Summers: “We need to pick up the pace.”

Fifty years ago, I wrote a bestseller about sexism in Australia. So, what’s changed?

Australia’s not as sexist as it was, but too many men still see women’s success as undermining their status.

  • Anne Summers
Michelle Payne: “I’ve always been an open person who speaks from the heart.”

I’d fractured 12 vertebrae and my skull. Then I was accused of ‘schoolgirl tactics’

By the time she won the Melbourne Cup, Michelle Payne had heard every sexist trope. These were the worst.

  • Michelle Payne

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