Advocacy

As climate change sends temperatures soaring, the women making our clothes are working in increasingly dangerous heat

"Sadly, Instagram censored me"

The Parenthood CEO made the case for a year of paid parental leave, affordable early education and workplaces that make room for care.

It's so confusing something to be a girl.

A new generation of foreign correspondents is here. They’re young, they’re female and they’re as familiar with the sounds of air raids as they are TikTok POVs. Meet the women redefining war reporting. Anna Conkling Anna Conkling logs into our video call from a hotel room in Kyiv, Ukraine, where she arrived just a few […]

“I carry every label of privilege you can imagine, and still everything that could have gone wrong went wrong.”

From going undercover as a Playboy Bunny to creating Ms. magazine, Gloria Steinem understood that changing the conversation could change the world.

Consent advocate, Chanel Contos called on the government to 'fix our feeds' at the National Press Club.

"I don’t feel comfortable"

"My advocacy started from a place of rage"

Harrison James knows first-hand the power of speaking out

Over the past decade, Daniel Principe has stepped into more than 3000 classrooms to talk to boys about masculinity, consent and their attitudes towards women. Here, the consent educator shares what those conversations have taught him about how to champion young boys into good men. “​I didn’t receive a healthy sex education until I was […]

You can make a difference

"I didn’t want her not to have a mum"

"Weak and unacceptable"

“Unbearably hostile places to work”

A ray of hope for other survivors.

“No-one should be forced to endure unbearable suffering when there is no hope of recovery.”

In a new documentary, Silenced, the Human Rights Lawyer shares how defamation laws are being used to silence women.

Her speech was heartfelt, furious and impossible to ignore

Women have carried the fear, the pain and the fight for long enough

"Vlad was the most important person in my life, my best friend"

An epidemic plaguing the nation

What is perinatal psychosis?

Enough with the victim-blaming rhetoric

“The central challenge of technology and coercive control"

Art, culture & community await

A pay rise for those who need it

Three icons

The founders using innovation, resilience and purpose to solve some of the world's biggest challenges.

Should they be stepping up?

Ignorance isn't bliss, girlies

How Australia is going all in

You can make a difference, too

"It’s been a long process to get here"

“We are seeing the impacts of the manosphere here in Australia"

“They are athletes who want to be safe."

Celebrating womanhood

Choosing freedom over fear

“It’s difficult to tell the truth"

"Every single one of them"

"They are legalising fear"

"I just felt like a horrible person all the time"

Protest pinned in plain sight

A day that stands as a marker of loss, survival and enduring resistance.

Watch her now

"It was uncomfortable to have that power asserted over you"

The statistics are startling

Survivor's pleas have finally been answered

Another day, another dollar (or lack thereof)

How the women of Vanuatu are lighting the way to equality.

Meet your nominees

Ultramarathoner Samantha Gash runs for a higher purpose

When medicine doesn’t believe you

Because no one should fight alone

A showcase of rebellious, revolutionary resilience 

Who really gets to speak in 2025?

Jewellery with a cause

Microplastics have been found in human faeces, hearts and even in foetuses. But can we actually avoid them?

The project rebuilding women’s futures

Helping Australians face cancer with strength and confidence

What happens to imagination in the age of AI?

On 5 September 2025, I shared my journey with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). I didn’t have obvious symptoms at first – nothing that couldn’t be explained away. I was tired and fatigued, but I blamed that on working hospitality jobs with long, late shifts. It was a routine blood test that showed something wasn’t right; […]

Chef and mother Kishwar Chowdhury travelled to Bangladesh with World Vision and met young people rewriting their futures – and their country’s

Be the change they need to see 

Every day, three Australian women lose their lives to this devastating disease

From politics to pop culture, meet the women shaping our next chapter

Handed a life sentence

“My son deserved to live”

Celebrating women driving change

"It's never easy losing a parent"

Letting you have your say, your way

“How much trauma does it take to start thinking that bombs are like rain?”

His Q&A speech is trending once again

A legacy of courage

Shattering another world record

Nicola Coughlan is fighting back

"I’m ready to go, just not until I see my babies one last time"

A portrait of a disturbingly common pattern

People are calling on the channel to make some serious changes

"These men, Mr Everyman, didn’t think they were rapists. They see rapists as ‘other"

"We need to pull men into the solution..."

"Mardi Gras is, at its core, a protest"

“Safer, more secure and more reliable” access

The former Olympic sailor talks pressures and privilege of pioneering change

Her story is heartbreaking, but her strength is undeniable

The player has been forced to respond to allegations after Australian Open protest

For *checks notes* being anti-Murdoch

We may not be able to change the past, but we can change the future

January 26 is not a day to celebrate

The site was only shutdown in June

"It was really scary”

Thanks to Gisèle Pelicot, shame has changed sides, but can the law keep up?

“Long but not long enough"

It's time for men to stand up

Join the fight to stop FGM this Christmas

Every step matters

“The only difference between [my mother] and me is the lack of evidence"

The moments that made us laugh, cry and feel empowered

The grit and hard-won glory of Australia’s female athletes