UN report finds girls in developing countries give birth too young. A new report from the UN has found that, in developing countries, one in five girls (19 per cent) give birth before they turn 18. Significantly, the report also found that of the 7.3 million girls who give birth every year, 2 million of…
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Texas judge rules new abortion restrictions unconstitutional. Despite Wendy Davis’ 11-hour filibuster blocking a super restrictive anti-abortion law in Texas, the law passed in July, banning abortions after 20 weeks and requiring doctors to perform abortions at special facilities. But the good news is that this week a judge ruled that the new regulations are…
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A pro-life Victorian doctor has been cited by fellow professionals as enacting a personal campaign contradicting the state’s abortion laws. Dr Mark Hobart has refused to refer patients for an abortion based on his religious beliefs, construing his involvement as ‘accomplice to murder’. Victoria is the only state in Australia to allow abortion in the…
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In case you missed it: Australia ranks 24th in global gender equality. Well, great, according to the latest World Economic Forum Global Gender Gap report, Australia ranks a pitiful 24th in terms of gender equality. The report measures progress in closing the gender gap in terms of health, education, economics and politics. Although Australia is the…
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I was asked to write a response to this article regarding the celebrity cook, writer and journalist Nigella Lawson’s possible anti-feminist heresy a couple of days ago, but as I sat down tonight to get stuck in to it, this fresh one popped up in Google, by the one and the same Laura Cox, both…
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The Australia Jockeys Association is lobbying for changes to rules governing parental leave after it was revealed female jockeys are missing out due to indirect discrimination in federal policy. To be eligible for paid parental leave under the still incumbent Labor scheme, applicants must have worked 10 months out of 13 before the child was…
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Gen Y women prioritise their future financial security ahead of their male peers, the annual Lifelounge Sweeney Research report shows. While one in three young men, aged between 16 to 30, acknowledge they like to live in the moment, only one in four women surveyed said they believed their future would eventually take care…
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Children as young as 12 test positive for Chlamydia. So yesterday we brought you the not so good news that cases of HIV are rising among Indigenous Australians and young people. Well, today yet another study has found increasing numbers of girls as young as twelve are testing positive for sexually transmitted infections such as…
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Breastfeeding mother charged with contempt of court. A Missouri mother has been charged with contempt of court when she appeared for jury duty with her breastfeeding seven-month-old son. Laura Trickle received a court order that said she ‘wilfully and contemptuously appeared for jury service with her child and no one to care to the child.’…
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Featured on Daily Life this week was an in-depth profile of our new deputy Opposition leader, Tanya Plibersek. Focussing on Plibersek’s family, home, and love of cooking (with handy captions of where her clothes were from at the end), the piece read like something out of a feminist-nightmare – once again reinforcing the idea that…
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In case you missed it: ACT becomes first Australian state/territory to pass same-sex marriage bill! Earlier today the ACT became a lot more hip and happening when it became the first Australian state/territory to pass a bill that, if it doesn’t get overturned by the high court, could legalise same sex marriage! Very impressed, Canberra,…
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Artist who designed the American Apparel ‘period power’ t shirt gets her Instagram account deleted. Petra Collins, the artist who designed the now infamous American Apparel ‘period power’ t shirt that we were all talking about a few weeks ago, has had her Instagram account deleted because body regulation. In classic social media anti-woman-censorship, Collins’…
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It’s the first day of Year 8, and the students are forced to introduce themselves in a new-class routine that never loses its awkwardness. In an effort to tell us what he loves, the maths teacher hands around a picture taken during a body-building competition: he is bizarrely brown and shiny. His face is a…
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No one is happy with postnatal body shaming fitness mummy-blogger, Maria Kang. Mother of three and fitness blogger, Maria Kang, angered a bunch of people pretty much everyone when she posted a picture of herself on Facebook, posing amongst her children (clearly labelled aged three years, two years and eight months) looking totally ripped, with…
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