The Guardian • gender
Issue #2064
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Like many young people born into the online world, I first became exposed to political ideas through social media as a teenager and therefore saw...
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Issue #1953
Perth International Women’s Day 2021
IWD 2021 was celebrated in Perth at Perth Trades Hall on Monday, the 8th of March.
Read moreReform draconian Victorian bail laws!
A new report by Corrections Victoria has revealed that over half of women incarcerated in Victorian prisons are unsentenced, highlighting once more the deep flaws in Victoria’s bail system.
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Issue #2066
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A report on sexual violence court cases in NSW has found that reforms to the justice system over the past 40 years have made improvements...
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Issue #2058
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Following The Sun a day earlier making public British Tory government plans to attack transgender children in almost every possible way at school through new...
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Issue #2064
The US Prison in film: A Marxist View
In the “land of the free,” millions languish in prisons in the name of law and order. The prison, as an institution, is used by...
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Issue #2014
Gender pay gap remains a national shame
Australia’s gender pay gap remains deeply entrenched thanks to a decade of indifference from the previous Liberal government. That’s according to the latest data released...
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Issue #2046
Queensland police under fire
The Queensland Premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk, has begun to restructure the Queensland Police Service (QPS) in an attempt to eradicate the “significant problem” of sexism, racism,...
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Issue #1979
Health and safety is in our hands
In May 2021, a Megaphone article titled “Knowledge is Power In Fight Against Gendered Violence” was published.
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Issue #2018
Paid family and domestic violence leave a huge win for workers
At the end of last month, working-class people across the country achieved a momentous victory when a bill tabled by Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke...
Read moreRespect at work: sexual harassment not on!
Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins released the Commission’s Respect@Work report on sexual harassment in the workplace more than twelve months ago.
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Issue #2043
Gender pay gap
While figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) showing that Australia’s gender pay gap is narrowing, women still receive, on average, $472 per...
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