By Rachael Wong

Three weeks ago, the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini sparked nationwide protests across Iran. The Kurdish-Iranian woman was visiting Tehran with her brother when she was arrested by the country’s morality police for wearing her hijab too loosely and revealing too much of her hair. Police maintained she had a heart attack at the station, collapsed and fell into a coma. However, witnesses say she was severely beaten.

By Dr Emma Wood

I think I was standing in the kitchen in tracksuit pants, eating a bowl of ice cream when I said,

By Dr Emma Wood

When I was coming of age, “sexual liberalism” looked like it was here to stay. A generation on from the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, I grew up in a world where very few public figures were brave enough to question the supposed progress that the sexual revolution had brought.

By Dr Emma Wood

Like NSW, Queensland, and Victoria before them, South Australia is now considering a bill to allow abortion up to birth.  In statements from the politicians involved, one sees the familiar employment of pro-woman rhetoric in the name of the abortion cause.  Abortion is a “health issue”.  Abortion is necessary for women’s health, and so the ethics of abortion should no longer be a talking point.

By Carolyn Fiddelaers

Today, the NSW Legislative Council resumed debate on the controversial abortion bill. As a woman, a feminist, a disability advocate, and a health professional, I wholeheartedly disagree with this radical law reform being pushed in NSW, which imitates the extreme reforms adopted in my own state of Victoria in 2008. I am opposed to the reform for the simple reason that it doesn’t protect any woman. In any way.