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Whether it’s new legislation or the accomplishments of female world leaders, we investigate the light and the dark in hard news. We break down what policy changes mean for our readers, while exploring how the world can be a better place.

As we near the 2025 Federal Election, Prabha Nandagopal and Grace Gardiner argue that 'opting out’ of engaging with politics doesn't mean opting out of the effects.
In Tuesday’s Federal Budget, Treasurer Jim Chalmers announced that the government will set aside $424 million for Australians with a disability.
As headlines swirl around influencers & content creators being invited to the federal budget lockup, we share our thoughts about being new media and a part of this group.
Missing Perspectives attended the budget lockup this year - which is where journalists are (almost literally) locked up in a room to read the budget papers and documents. Here are some of our key takeaways.
This story highlights the relentless work of four women from South Asia. These are women who have faced intimidation, character assassination, and countless obstacles, yet refuse to be silenced – Safina Nabi reports
To better support domestic violence victim-survivors, investigative journalist Sally Spicer implores us to start asking the right ones.
Intifar Chowdhury is a Lecturer in Government, Flinders University. This article first appeared in The Conversation.
For as long as I can remember, I’ve always found the idea of a trans-exclusionary radical feminist (colloquially referred to as a TERF or more recently as self-described ‘gender-critical feminists’) as incredibly ironic, if not entirely counterintuitive to the worthwhile cause of feminism as a whole. 
"On the World Day of Social Justice, let’s talk about kinship incarceration and the ignored ripple effect of imprisonment through extended family networks," writes Maia Onyenachi.
With the fall of the Assad regime, Syrian women are increasingly speaking out against the imposition of the hijab and expressing their concerns about the country’s shift toward more stringent Islamic rule – Batoul Yazbeck reports.

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