Title: News

Age verification on social media, but not porn?

The Australian Federal Government has announced that it is moving to introduce a bill to enact an Online Privacy code.

27 October 2021

$5000 support to help women flee violent relationships

The federal government will give women leaving a violent relationship a one-off payment of up to $5,000 to help them establish a life free of violence.

25 October 2021

Stillborn babies are ‘the collateral damage of the pandemic’

According to new research, Melbourne mothers were more likely to have a preterm stillbirth during lockdowns than they were in the previous two years.

21 October 2021

Margaret Atwood outrages fans after sharing article about the erasure of women

Margaret Atwood has been accused of transphobia after sharing an article on Twitter titled ‘Why can’t we say “woman” anymore?’

20 October 2021

Labor Senator pushes for Medicare to fund ‘gender affirming surgeries’

Last weekend, Labor Senator for WA Louise Pratt made headlines for lending her support to a petition lobbying the government to finance the costs of “gender affirming” surgery via Medicare.

14 October 2021

Netflix Star says he would abort his next child if it is a girl

Comments made by Taiwanese Netflix star Mike He made in a 2020 interview have surfaced causing a backlash online.

13 October 2021

In defence of compassion, conscience and civil disagreement

Some would argue that thanks to ‘cancel culture’ and the curious notion that a differing view is synonymous with stupidity and/or hate, the art of disagreement has been dead for some time.

12 October 2021 · Rachael Wong

'The great sperm heist’

Assisted reproductive technology has produced more than 8 million babies since 1978. It has also produced a market in sperm with remarkably little oversight.

11 October 2021

Surrogate mothers left feeling “like vessels”

There’s still a lot we don’t know about the impacts of surrogacy on both the women carrying the babies and the babies born to them as a result.

6 October 2021