SBS — Housos and hypocrisy

9 May 2013 | In a dizzying display of hypocrisy, rather than take action against the vile and violent misogyny ...  

Housos hide while SBS disowns them

4 Apr 2013 | SBS distances itself from Housos, while the show's Facebook page continues promoting violent ...  

Tony Abbott the feminist

20 Mar 2013 | Despite what Margie Abbott might say, a man with three daughters and a gay sister is not necess ...  

Justice system discriminates against abused women

8 Mar 2013 | Australian rapists have only a minuscule chance of conviction; on International Women’s Day ...  

Nova Peris, the Prime Minister and Trish Crossin

23 Jan 2013 | PM Julia Gillard has replaced Senator Trish Crossin with “Supa” Nova Peris in the NT, osten ...  

Peta Credlin over-eggs Tony Abbott

7 Jan 2013 | Astoundingly, Tony Abbott has rolled out Peta Credlin, his chief of staff, with a sob story about ...  

The Motorcycle Song of Aceh

5 Jan 2013 | A city in Indonesia is planning to ban women from straddling motorbikes behind male drivers. ...  

Rape and afterwards

30 Dec 2012 | Sadly – so sadly – the girl brutally gang-raped in India has died; with a society in uproar ...  

The end of the Age of Exploitation

14 Nov 2012 | Recent events suggest that the time of those with power exploiting the weak and vulnerable, ...  

Gillard’s “misogyny speech” ― one month on

8 Nov 2012 | A month after Gillard’s now famous “misogyny speech”, Bec Zajac reflects on why the speech ...  

Sub-tropical Fascism (Part 2): Media insecurity

4 Nov 2012 | In the second of a six part series on Australian fascism by Dr George Venturini, he looks at ...  

Signalling molecule fertile ground for controlling cancer

31 Oct 2012 | An important discovery at Melbourne’s Prince Henry’s Institute may point the way towards ...  

Standing up against chauvinism

28 Oct 2012 | Misogyny and chauvinism is alive and well in Australia, and this week Wayne Brooks saw it at its ...  

Politicians pushing down the poor

19 Oct 2012 | The Prime Minister cutting single parent benefits on the same day as her famous feminist inspired ...  

Of men and human nature

17 Oct 2012 | With claims of misogyny and sexism circling powerful men in our society, the image of men is at an ...  

The contexts of Julia Gillard's speech

15 Oct 2012 | So you want context to Julia Gillard's speech last week? Well, I’ll give you contexts – ...  

The ‘real’ Julia revealed

11 Oct 2012 | The ‘real Julia’ stood up for herself and for all women on Tuesday, and revealed the ‘real ...  

Julia Gillard breaks through

11 Oct 2012 | Something amazing happened on Tuesday — a brave but grieving prime minister stood up for ...