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A movement of musicians and venues in Victoria is leading a campaign to stop sexual harassment at live music gigs, writes Denham Sadler.
Topics: music, men, women, assault, sexual-offences, internet-culture, australia
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| UpdatedA new digital mapping tool allows women to tag places around the Melbourne CBD and surrounding suburbs where they feel safe or unsafe and leave comments describing their experiences.
Topics: women, social-media, information-technology, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedThe key decision makers — and award winners — in the Australian film industry are still overwhelmingly male, writes WIFT president Sophie Mathisen.
Topics: film-movies, television, women, work, social-media, sydney-2000, australia
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Kununurra's Kalyn Fletcher is recognised as a woman "on the rise", by Business Women Australia.
Topics: women, women-in-agriculture, rural-women, kununurra-6743, perth-6000
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| UpdatedCerdon College in western Sydney is experiencing greater demand for STEM subjects among female students.
Topics: mathematics-education, mathematics, science, secondary, women, merrylands-2160
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Topics: community-and-society, women, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, cairns-4870
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A Newcastle family twice impacted by breast cancer is fundraising to better support others affected by the disease.
Topics: breast-cancer, diseases-and-disorders, health, women, community-and-society, family-and-children, newcastle-2300, nsw
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| UpdatedIn a first for the Pacific Islands, Cricket Australia, Netball Australia and the International Cricket Council, are joining forces to mentor female sports leaders from around the region.
Topics: sport, women, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedOne of the most influential women in the AFL, Susan Alberti, steps down as vice-president of reigning premiers the Western Bulldogs, but promises she will continue help break ground for the women's competition.
Topics: australian-football-league, women, sport, melbourne-3000, vic
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| UpdatedHonking, catcalls, following and sexual propositions — these are just some of the intrusions women risk having to put up with when they lace up their shoes and go for a run.
Topics: sexual-offences, women, men, community-and-society, exercise-and-fitness, health, australia, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedMarried at 13 and pregnant by 15, the story of Maria Concetta Cacciola, who died after deliberately swallowing acid, offers an insight into the life of a woman born into the 'Ndrangheta — the mafia group in Italy's Calabria region.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, women, italy
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| UpdatedNeuroscientists insist women's brains should be studied separately to men's, while a gold-plated sex toy is topping Christmas wishlists, Jo Fox writes.
Topics: discrimination, men, women, neuroscience, psychology, offbeat
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Topics: domestic-violence, community-and-society, womens-health, women, australian-football-league, wangaratta-3677
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| UpdatedThe FIFA Under 20 Women's World Cup reaches its climax at the National Football Stadium in Port Moresby tomorrow evening, when France play North Korea in the final.
Topics: soccer, women, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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A legion of new female cricketers from India and Singapore save a Canberra cricket team facing the prospect of folding.
Topics: sports-organisations, sport, community-and-society, cricket, women, education, university-and-further-education, community-organisations, canberra-2600, act, australia
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Robyn Flittner at the support group in Launceston
Topics: women, launceston-7250
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The support group in the middle of a session
Topics: women, launceston-7250
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Fatemeh, her son Milke and Fatima at the support group in Launceston
Topics: women, launceston-7250
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Once a week about 30 women, the majority originally from Afghanistan, meet in Launceston for a couple of hours to talk with volunteers assisting them settle into local communities.
Topics: women, education, community-development, community-education, charities-and-community-organisations, volunteers, launceston-7250, afghanistan
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| UpdatedSaudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal says preventing women from driving is "an issue of rights similar to the one that forbade her from receiving an education or having an independent identity".
Topics: women, women-religious, islam, saudi-arabia
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| UpdatedA Somali-American teenager makes history and becomes the first woman to wear a hijab and burkini in the Miss Minnesota USA pageant.
Topics: human-interest, religion-and-beliefs, women, united-states
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| UpdatedAn innovative community-led approach to tackling domestic violence has been launched in central Queensland with residents and service providers joining forces to create a website dubbed #canihelp?
Topics: community-and-society, domestic-violence, information-and-communication, internet-culture, women, family, rockhampton-4700
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| UpdatedCommunities throughout the Pacific are holding a series of activities linked to the 16 days of global action against domestic violence that began on White Ribbon Day on November 25th.
Topics: women, domestic-violence, pacific, solomon-islands
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| UpdatedShould doctors who perform labiaplasty be charged under anti-Female Genital Mutilation laws? And would you live broadcast your own genital cosmetic surgery as one pop star is doing?
Topics: womens-health, pornography, women, parenting, relationships, laws
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The recent announcement that the Pope will allow priests to grant forgiveness for the "sin" of abortion is yet another reason why women should continue to shout about theirs, writes Jane Caro.
Topics: feminism, women, abortion, pregnancy-and-childbirth, laws, australia