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Germaine Greer, the author of the seminal feminist text The Female Eunuch joins The Louis Theroux podcast.

Germaine Greer tells Louis Theroux why women should marry truck drivers

The 85-year-old Australian feminist gave an interview to the British-American broadcaster from her aged care home in Victoria.

  • Rob Harris
Chris Minns (left) and Anthony Albanese (right) will be at Kyle Sandilands’ wedding.

I do, Kyle style: PM and premier top guest list for radio star’s wedding

It’s a case of having friends in high places for the radio shock-jock Kyle Sandilands who is marrying his former assistant on Saturday.

  • Andrew Hornery
Germaine Greer takes part in a march in Sydney in March 1972, just days after her Auckland court appearance.

From the Archives, 1972: Youths riot as Greer fined for obscene language

Police arrested 17 youths rioting outside a New Zealand court where Germaine Greer, the champion of Women’s Liberation, was fined for the use of obscene language during a lecture at Auckland University.

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Grace Tame with Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Jenny Morrison.

Grace Tame, TikTok and the emergence of feminism’s Fourth Wave

When activist Grace Tame was scolded by the Prime Minister’s wife for her lack of manners, it highlighted a generational divide over the unapologetic and frank approach of a new breed of feminists.

  • Jacqueline Maley
Once compulsory viewing for young Brits ... how much is the fall of Neighbours a sign of a larger disaffection with Australia?

The withered image of Oz, by a Brit who caught the Neighbours twang

An international journalist and author reflects on the apparent disaffection with Australia, the country he calls home.

  • Nick Bryant
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Wendy Brennan has written a romance novel featuring Spoon Bay and other Central Coast landmarks.

Mills & Boon author sold 71 million copies worldwide

Wendy Brennan left her teaching career to become Australia’s bestselling romantic novelist, authoring or co-authoring over 100 novels for Mills & Boon.

  • Amy Ripley
Women protest in the street in a scene from the documentary Brazen Hussies.

Why were Australian women revolting? Brazen Hussies has the answer

It would be easy for this documentary on the history of the women’s liberation movement to become a nostalgic wallow, but it’s better than that.

  • Paul Byrnes
Tony Shepherd ... ''On the form where it said 'Sex', she just wrote, 'Yes'".

Tony Shepherd: 'Sport is a religion. It gives us meaning'

As chair of AFL team GWS Giants and the Sydney Cricket and Sports Ground Trust, the 76-year-old businessman knows what matters to Australians – but he also reveres family and the sanctity of life.

  • Benjamin Law
The backlash against feminism in the US during the 1970s was led by conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly, played by Cate Blanchett in Mrs. America.

Painting a picture: Cate Blanchett on life in isolation and her role in the gender debate

Cate Blanchett’s new TV series tells the story of American anti-feminist activist Phyllis Schlafly. She talks equality, isolating with the family and vacuuming.

  • Jenny Cooney

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