Politics

Ahead of International Women’s Day, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese calls on men to end Australia’s epidemic of violence against women.

Closing the gap policies, meant to improve outcomes for First Nations people, on track to fail, warns the Productivity Commission.

EU member countries agree on a law to criminalise various forms of violence against women, but stop short of defining rape.

UK’s Labour Party has drafted a Race Equality Act that would extend full equal pay rights to ethnic minority workers and people with disabilities.

Sinn Féin’s deputy leader Michelle O’Neill has become Northern Ireland’s First Minister-the first Irish nationalist to be appointed. 

Governor of the RBA Michele Bullock is set to feature in UN Women Australia’s national events celebrating International Women’s Day 2024.

Anti-slavery advocate Grace Forrest is the first Aussie woman to be selected for the prestigious Roosevelt Institute Four Freedoms Award. 

The family of Ms Bernard, an Aboriginal woman who went missing more than a decade ago, have voiced their grief as a man has finally been charged with murder.

Far-right pundits are calling Taylor Swift a “Pentagon asset” who is rigging the presidential election in November. 

Independent MP Allegra Spender has addressed the National Press Club, speaking about her views on the Albanese government’s changes to the Stage 3 tax cuts.

Nearly 65,000 rape-related pregnancies estimated in the 14 US states with near-total abortion bans following the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

France approves a bill to enshrine a woman’s right to an abortion in the French Constitution, defying the trend of neighbouring countries.