News & Views

London Mayor Sadiq Khan bans body-shaming ads on public transport

Women in the UK capital will no longer be subjected to questions like "are you beach body ready?" on their daily commute.

Protein World's offending ads and the response from commuters.

An Oregon court has allowed a person to legally choose 'nonbinary' gender classification

Although the petition was granted with little fanfare, experts said that, to their knowledge, the ruling was the first of its kind in the country.

A judge in Oregon has granted a petition allowing a person to legally choose neither sex and be classified as nonbinary.

Qatar convicts Dutch woman who reported being drugged and raped and will deport her

The 22-year-old already detained for three months on suspicion of 'adultery' after reporting her assault has been handed a one-year suspended sentence.

FILE- In this May 14, 2010 file photo, a Qatari woman walks in front of the city skyline in Doha, Qatar. A Dutch woman ...

Comment

Eddie McGuire faces the media after his King Kong gaffe.

Caro: Eddie's ice pool attack took me back to the bad old days

When my editor asked me to write this column my first response was discomfort. As a busy football weekend rolls into Monday there always seem to be so many good stories to explore and, believe me, I do not relish being a part of a story like this. Again.

Clementine Ford

Football is for everyone - so when will the AFL start acting like it?

"There is an underlying hostility towards women's involvement in AFL, and ignorant, pig-headed behaviour from senior leaders like Eddie McGuire only compounds that," writes Clementine Ford.

Mythbusting film

'Muslim women are not always victims. They're ...

Filmmakers Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and Geeta Ghandbir cut through prevailing stereotypes in their work, and their latest doco about Bangladeshi women peacekeepers is no exception.