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Kala Gare stars as Sybylla in the stage production of My Brilliant Career at the Sydney Theatre Company.

‘On the backs of women who have shouted’: Why this classic Australian work still matters

Kala Gare is playing the rebellious protagonist in My Brilliant Career. After calling out audience members for “groping” last year, her character’s courage resonates.

  • Kayla Olaya

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Breastfeeding is often promoted as a way for new mothers to lose weight.

I don’t take part in this sisterhood jamboree. Why? Let’s start with the Big Lie

The organisers of International Women’s Day says we are equal to men. I have news for them.

  • Parnell Palme McGuinness
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Frances Rings just did something no other Australian has. She leads this year’s Trailblazers

From the stage and field, to the frontline battle against violence, these 10 women are helping to shape Australia.

  • Helen Pitt, Genevieve Quigley, Melissa Singer and Abby Seaman
Sheryle Bagwell, as a child, and her mother on a cruise from Sydney to Melbourne.

Mum sacrificed everything for us. After she died at 41, I honoured her lifelong wish

The 1970s was a decade of great change for women. Sadly for my mother, they came too late.

  • Sheryle Bagwell
Women’s rights have been quashed since the Taliban retook Afghanistan during August 2021.

‘Gender apartheid’: Why we can’t forget the women of Afghanistan

Afghani men are now permitted to beat their wives as long as it does not cause “broken bones or open wounds”.

  • Liz Gooch
It took decades for Patricia Sykes to find the courage to return to the Abbotsford Convent, where she lived in an orphanage as a child.

Art and ghosts meet as women reclaim the shadows of Abbotsford Convent

The faint echoes of the Magdalene laundries still linger in the convent’s walls. Some former residents have been brave enough to return; others will never cross the threshold again.

  • Cassandra Morgan
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The Diary of a CEO podcast host Steven Bartlett.

Two top podcasters have identified a global decline. The problem, they say, is women

“A huge amount of men between the age of 15 and 50 will not pass on their genes. They will effectively die out of the gene pool ... Should society intervene?” Steven Bartlett asked last year.

  • Katy Hall
Sita Sargeant, founder of She Shapes History.

These ‘badass women’ built Melbourne. It’s time we knew more about them

In Melbourne’s hidden history, there’s a slew of powerful women who shaped the city – and were never recognised with a “hero’s journey”. Sita Sargeant is now revealing them.

  • Cassandra Morgan
Australian photographer Ponch Hawkes has been documenting our lives for five decades.

From counter-culture to suburban nudes: Melbourne lives captured through a lens

Like Helen Garner, Ponch Hawkes has documented the lives of Melburnians. Her acclaimed photographs are a window on decades of social change and everyday moments.

  • Kerrie O'Brien
Comedian Tania Lacy was a regular on Australian TV in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

She was one of Australia’s hottest TV stars – then she vanished. What happened to Tania Lacy?

A dramatic firing, cruel rumours and a battle with addiction saw this 1990s TV sensation retreat from the limelight. Now, Lacy reveals the story behind her disappearance.

  • Michael Lallo