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1. One woman a week: Casualities in the war on women

   to recognise the “new reality we face,” to name the crisis of male violence against women as a war on ... family violence against women is the single largest driver of homelessness for women. On average, police ... Sydney shelter manager told Fairfax, women in search of emergency accommodation “are on a wild goose ...

2. The ‘feminist’ war on traffic lights: political correctness gone too far?

   new villain. The war on political correctness seems to have sprung up spontaneously but it is tied to ... bogey man on the block. It is credited with the rise of brazenly crude figures such as Donald Trump and ... and gender equality. It is running around Melbourne, putting a tiny skirt on the little figure on ...

3. For safe, affordable abortion on demand

   the right to choose signal a war on women in Australia. The women’s movement has concerned itself with ... on is slowing the staggering rates of women killed by violence (the number rose as I was writing this ... demand. Capitalism relies on gendered oppression. The perpetuation of women as the carers and bearers of ...

4. Speaking the unspeakable: Australia’s rape problem

   … the rape of Aboriginal women, as in any war, was part of the conquest.’ The loaded colonial history of ... is a thin facade on a society that has a serious problem with sexual violence. Australian women are ... the property of men. The oppression of women became a pillar on which capitalism relies. Marx’s ...

5. Milo Yiannopoulos tour to face protests

   things I hate about Islam”. Yiannopoulos is a classic troll. He personifies the cynical war on “political ... women that proliferate in the video game industry came under the spotlight. He managed to stay in the ... white supremacist who took a punch to the head on national television during an interview about Trump’s ...

6. ‘Out of the closets and into the streets’: Mardi Gras' radical history

   a packed night at the Stonewall Inn, a Mafia-controlled gay bar in downtown New York City on June 28, 1969. ... crowd freed those in the police vans and turned on the Stonewall Inn with the police trapped inside. ... struggle that was challenging the system from all angles. The anti-war movement had caused mass unrest; ...