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International Women's Day
Women's Day has been hijacked by hollow branding exercises
Drunk on empty hashtagged empowerment, we're bastardising a concept that needs to be kept lofty, altruistic and focused on one simple and unsexy message: men need to stop killing, raping, maiming and harassing women.
- by Celia Walden
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International Women's Day
An unlikely journey to Saudi Arabia for International Women's Day
Saudi Arabia might not seem an obvious fit to celebrate women’s equality, given the country only granted women the right to drive in 2018. But former Paralympian Annabelle Williams, 31, is there to ride - and propel - the wave of change.
- by Larissa Ham
Opinion
Feminism
Women have been discounted or erased as city-shaping leaders
A head count of statues and monuments around the city of Melbourne gives us 23 men. There are only two women, one is Queen Victoria.
- by Sally Capp
Opinion
Feminism
On International Women's Day, a message not many want to hear
Why does this new topic for discussion prompt such sputtering and choking noises at its mention?
- by Wendy Squires
Opinion
International Women's Day
Have women been fighting for the wrong things all along?
The small increases of women in positions of power are carefully allocated to those who accept the status quo as they compete with men on their terms and values.
- by Eva Cox
Opinion
Australia Day
If Arndt knows what chivalry is, she'll relinquish her Order of Australia
Bettina Arndt's Order of Australia is under formal review. If she really wants us to believe she is for equality of both genders, she should hand it back.
- by Wendy Tuohy
Opinion
Crime
Victims of domestic violence need legal representation of their own
The tragic events in Brisbane resulting in the deaths of Hannah Baxter and her three young children has, again, shone light on the shocking extent and nature of violence against women and children in Australia.
- by Mary Iliadis