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.
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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
- Safina Nabi
To better support domestic violence victim-survivors, investigative journalist Sally Spicer implores us to start asking the right ones.
- Sally Spicer
Intifar Chowdhury is a Lecturer in Government, Flinders University. This article first appeared in The Conversation.
- Intifar Chowdhury
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.
- Elle Burnard
"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.
- 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.
- Batoul Yazbeck
"As a proud asexual woman, this information is not surprising to me in the slightest. While I am not shocked, I am really mad," writes Allie Daisy King.
- Allie Daisy King
Job-sharing political candidates Lucy Bradlow and Bronwen Bock have announced that they have submitted an application to the Federal Court of Australia, seeking to prevent the Australian Electoral Commission from rejecting their nomination to run for a Victorian Senate seat in the upcoming federal election.
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In June last year, the West Bengal government conducted eviction drives across the city of Kolkata to do away with ‘encroachments’. The impacts on women and children are still felt today, reports Ritwika Mitra.
- Ritwika Mitra