Best: First female AFL club president. Richmond Football Club has appointed Peggy O’Neal as the first female president of an AFL club. On her appointment, O’Neal stated that ‘to be the first woman elected to this role, in the history of the competition, is deeply humbling, and I think it says much about the Richmond…
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South African women’s prison now home to giant screaming vagina. It’s a pretty eye catching headline, isn’t it? A former prison in South Africa, where Winnie Mandela was incarcerated for protesting against apartheid segregation in 1958, has been equipped with a 12 meter deep, walk through vagina installation. Artist and creator, Reshma Chhiba, conceptualised the installation as…
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Saudi Cleric says driving cars damages women’s ovaries. An Ultra-conservative Saudi Sheikh, Saleh bin Saad al-Lohaidan, has argued that women should not be allowed to drive cars because (apparently) ‘studies show’ that driving damages women’s ovaries and pelvises, causing them to give birth to babies with clinical problems. Although there is no official law…
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Women only spaces on the rise in India. After the 2012 New Delhi bus rape, a woman-only culture has blossomed in India, with women seeking out woman-only hotel floors, cabs and busses. In November the Indian government is launching a bank just for women, to empower them financially. The report rate of sexual violence in…
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This ‘300 Sandwiches’ project will make your feminist blood boil. Another sarcastic feminist hashtag trend has emerged on Twitter in response to this blog and the corresponding article in the New York Post, wherein lady journalist and blogger Stephanie Smith’s boyfriend asked her to make him a sandwich and so she did. She’s now on…
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Newly elected Liberal Democratic Party senator says that if Jill Meagher had a gun she’d be alive today. Liberal Democratic Party senator, David Leyonhjelm, is calling for a change to self defence laws, claiming that Australia should have similar gun laws to the US. In order to support his argument, Leyonhjelm argued that if Jill…
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In case you missed it: Tony Abbott is now the minister for women. Newly sworn in Prime Minister, Tony Abbott announced his cabinet earlier in the week and we all know how that went down. While Abbott removed numerous ministerial posts such as science, aged care and early childhood, it has been announced that there…
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In this robust piece of political journalism, the few women who got past Tony’s door into the upper echelons of the new government are thoughtfully analysed and critiqued for their policies and stance on national affairs. Lol JK, ladies bring a plate, because this is a good ol’ fashioned ho-down of unnecessary and superficial sexist…
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In case you missed it: Ita Buttrose claims glass ceiling is very much alive in Australia. Australian of the year and all-round-class-act, Ita Buttrose, has openly criticized the lack of women in Tony Abbott’s new cabinet, claiming that it is ‘unacceptable’ in 2013. A trailblazer and longtime women’s advocate, since her days as the founding…
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Prime Minister-elect Tony Abbott announces cabinet and, as expected, it’s a sausage-fest. Today Tony Abbott announced his new Prime Ministerial cabinet, and as expected, it is explicitly lacking in ladies. Due to the Coalition agreement with the National Party, although Julie Bishop is the deputy leader of the Liberal Party, it is National Party leader,…
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In case you missed it: Julia Gillard waxes lyrical about power, legacy and the future of Labor. Former Prime Minister, Julia Gillard has broken her silence today, penning a column for The Guardian focusing on notions of power. Gillard reflected on the shortcomings of the new Abbott government as well as her own, being…
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Greens Senator, Sarah Hanson-Young to sue ZOO as she damn well should. Australian Greens senator, Sarah Hanson-Young is suing ZOO magazine for photoshopping her face onto the body of a bikini model in such a way that Hanson-Young claims made her appear ‘incompetent and immature.’ Hanson-Young claims the lad’s mag represented her as ‘not a…
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Senegal has a sassy feminist Prime Minister. Aminata Toure, women’s rights activist, anti-corruption whistle-blower, justice minister, football player and all round feminist bad arse, has been appointed the new Prime Minister of Senegal. Toure has dedicated much of her life to advocacy and activism for causes such as reproductive rights, women’s health issues and…
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It turns out that controversial feminist activist group, FEMEN, was founded by man. In, Ukraine Is Not a Brothel: The Femen Story, a film currently screening at the Venice Film Festival, the true founder of feminist activist group, FEMEN, has been revealed. As it turns out, it’s a guy. This new information has prompted…
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