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The Albanese Government's NDIS overhaul pits systems against people
By Jane Britt
The Khia Asylum: Where are the men?
Looking at much of the internet discourse on the Khia Asylum, it appears that the key determinant of whether an artist becomes an inmate is gender…
 • Varsha Yajman
News Corp conveniently finds a moral compass just in time to skewer Albo for Kylie comments
Cheek's recap on the week that was.
 • Kalila Welch
The NSW government made headlines for ‘banning’ new coal - so why are we fighting the state’s biggest ever coal project?
By Jo Lynch
Australia is the world’s largest consumer of new clothes - are France’s new ultra fast fashion laws the answer?
France has introduced new laws to curb ultra-fast-fashion giants Shein and Temu.
 • Varsha Yajman
A quick note from Hannah
an important update!
 • Hannah Ferguson
I grew up watching Newcastle's NBN News - now it joins a long list of regional newsrooms that have been gutted
By Sophie Henderson
The alleged murder of 17-year-old Thunchanok Donhomla at the hands of an Australian man is horrific, but not shocking
Southeast Asian women and girls face disproportionate abuse every day, whether it’s in “sex tourism”, sex trafficking or domestic violence…
 • Bernadette Clarke
The Taylor Swift wedding debate
JusT&T another billionaire wedding
 • Hannah Ferguson
Surveillance has never looked so chic
By Jovilyn Rabino
The Australian media has proven, once again, that it is incapable of humanising female victims of violence
Cheek's recap on the week that was.
 • Kalila Welch
A year on, the Victorian Government is still yet to answer the recommendations of the Yoorrook Justice Commission
By Sue-Anne Hunter, Maggie Walter & Tony North
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