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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

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Poms, put aside your Ouija boards – Australians do have common sense about Sam Kerr

Short of words and desperate for a donut, a mother country scribe has decided to attack this columnist for his piece on the Matildas star.

  • John Silvester
Brad Battin says he will support the government’s legislation, with one key change.

The four words blocking the government’s hate speech laws

Victorian Opposition Leader Brad Battin has offered Premier Jacinta Allan bipartisan support for proposed hate laws currently before parliament if she agrees to remove four words from the legislation.

  • Chip Le Grand
Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan speaks to Jewish community leaders outside the Adass Israel synagogue in Ripponlea, Melbourne.

Jewish groups urge Opposition to back hate speech laws

The government has amended its anti-vilification legislation to scrap a proposed “genuine political purpose” exemption for criminal hate speech.

  • Chip Le Grand
Illustration: Joe Benke

As Dutton parades his softer side, let’s not forget how hard he’s played the politics of race

In these racially charged times, the opposition leader has returned to old ways as the election campaign approaches.

  • Sean Kelly

Should we fear growing separatism? Germany offers a clue

Immigration will be the No.1 issue at next week’s German election, part of a backlash against a well-meaning but ultimately misguided policy of multicultural integration.

  • Parnell Palme McGuinness
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How dating app algorithms push us together and drive us apart

The architecture of dating apps remains a mystery, but some users and experts believe racism and body image discrimination are being promoted on the platforms.

  • Kayla Olaya and Lauren Ironmonger
Nadia’s Uber trip, when the driver got lost.

Who cares if Sam Kerr called a policeman ‘stupid and white’? I don’t

I’ve been in Sam Kerr’s shoes – a terrified woman of colour trapped in the back of an Uber – and I don’t blame her.

  • Nadia Russell
Australian soccer player Samantha Kerr, right, departs Kingston Crown Court, in south west London, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025, where she is was found not guilty on charges of alleged racially aggravated harassment of a police officer. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

A chaotic taxi ride, the big ‘bluff’, and the four words that landed Sam Kerr in court

The jury deliberated for four hours before deciding the Matildas captain did not intend to cause harassment, alarm or distress after a night out two years ago.

  • Rob Harris

If ‘hate speech’ laws go too far, we will lose essential freedoms

In the name of a good cause, what may be said is policed by ever-more intrusive political censorship. That is how free societies lose their freedoms.

  • George Brandis

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