Misogyny is being mainstreamed and cruelty is being organised. So is solidarity. It's time to understand what is happening, and to stand up and fight.

The Sacred Everyday

People Power, Chapter 4: We are not bystanders. Here's what we've been told not to talk about, what our silence is costing us, and how to find your voice and change the system.

Pauline Hanson named Australia's most trusted politician as separate studies find disillusionment with government.

Teaching unions have hit back at the opposition's depictions of what is being taught in schools and criticism of the Respectful Relationships curriculum. Meanwhile, trusts are back in the news.

On the old tradition of blaming women for every thing.

Prolific author campaigned against domestic violence, female genital mutilation, pornography and the Vietnam and Gulf wars

Lesbia Harford knew she would die young but became a revolutionary all the same. Her writing captured the dizzying confusion of a violent time.

Consent advocate Chanel Contos wants Australians to be able to opt out of algorithm-driven content.

Nepal

It didn’t take the titanic corruption and clown-car incompetence around Trump to tell young people that death-throes capitalism is a...

Even its admirers get The Rise of the Meritocracy wrong

That imagery of the Himalayan tsunami smashing into the multi-story building in Nepal was horrifying, but then murder always is, isn’t it?

I must admit something that will surprise those who know me. When the news of Dolly Parton's death broke across every bulletin yesterday afternoon, I found myself, quite unexpectedly, in tears. I do n...

Troubles are mounting for Meta as a court case exposes its role in a mental health crisis.

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