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ABC News • Jessica Riga • March 8, 2023 • abc.net.au
Lisa Millar addresses 'disgusting' social media commentary live on News Breakfast
News Breakfast host Lisa Millar addresses the "obnoxious commentary" and media coverage she has received in recent days, but says "the response over that rubbish gives me hope".
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Sky News Australia • Olivia Caisley • March 8, 2023 • skynews.com.au
RBA Governor given heavily-discounted mortgage from the bank in 1997
Sky News Australia can reveal Reserve Bank Governor Dr Philip Lowe enjoyed an extraordinary mortgage perk on top of his generous salary – which is now more than $1 million a year.
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Olivia Caisley@livcaisley
Exclusive: RBA Governor Phil Lowe obtained a half-price home loan - from the Reserve Bank to purchase his 5-bedroom property in Sydney's eastern suburbs in 1997. There are 11 current/former RBA employees still benefitting from the scheme. @SkyNewsAust skynews.com.au/australia-news…
March 8, 2023
ABC News • Kath Sullivan • March 8, 2023 • abc.net.au
Agriculture department in dire straits as 'festering' finance problem reaches a head
A federal government department responsible for protecting Australia's "way of life" is on the cusp of requiring a financial bailout, as it falls hundreds of millions of dollars into the red.
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The Guardian • Greg Jericho • March 8, 2023 • theguardian.com
Happy International Women’s Day! Unfortunately you still earn $1m less than men
In 95% of all occupations men are paid more than women. The tyranny of the gender pay gap even carries on into retirement
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Greg Jericho@GrogsGamut
#IWD2023
When men earn more in 87% of occupation in which women make up more than 60% of the workforce it's clear the issue is not just male-dominated industries etc pay more
theguardian.com/business/grogo…
March 8, 2023
The Guardian • Anne Davies • March 8, 2023 • theguardian.com
Why more Australian universities are outsourcing courses to for-profit providers
As courses go online, institutions are increasingly using external companies to deliver them, sparking concerns about quality and value for money
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Anne Summers • March 8, 2023 • smh.com.au
We must stop wilfully condemning single mothers to a life of poverty
While our tax rules subsidise obscene accumulations of wealth through superannuation, unemployed single mums and their children are forced to live on a pittance.
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The Guardian • Guardian staff reporter • March 8, 2023 • theguardian.com
MP Georgie Purcell: Why I’m wearing my gendered online abuse to Victoria’s parliament
The language is unparliamentary but I’ll be marking International Women’s Day in a dress adorned with abusive comments
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The Guardian • Guardian staff reporter • March 8, 2023 • theguardian.com
Unable to breastfeed my baby due to cancer, I was made to feel like a failure | Naama Carlin
No one should feel unsupported and inferior about the way they feed their child
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derridalicious@derridalicious
I had thoughts about breastfeeding & about why "breast is(nt always) breast". Emphasis on breastfeeding as "natural" & "normal" made me feel like I failed at parenting before i even gave birth.
No one should feel inferior for how we feed our babies
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
March 8, 2023
The New Daily • Michael Pascoe • March 8, 2023 • thenewdaily.com.au
Household income crash worse than ’90s recession
The RBA has engineered a bigger crash in Australians’ real disposable income than they suffered in the 1990s recession
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The Guardian • Luke Henriques-Gomes • March 8, 2023 • theguardian.com
Former robodebt investigator becomes emotional after learning documents were withheld by department
‘I find it upsetting,’ former senior assistant ombudsman Louise Macleod says to inquiry
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Luke Henriques-Gomes@lukehgomes
“I suppose I feel like a failure,” Louise Macleod said.
Holmes replied: “Why should you feel like a failure when you clearly raised a lot of important issues that just weren’t taken up?”
Macleod said: “Because I couldn’t convince others.” theguardian.com/australia-news… #robodebtrc
March 8, 2023
Australian Women's Weekly • March 8, 2023 • nowtolove.com.au
Girl Geek academy founder Sarah Moran on cracking the code to a gender equal future
''The hardest code to crack for a gender equal future is the unconscious bias we have against women's genius.'' #InternationalWomensDay
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Sarah Moran 💃 @SarahMoran
We need urgent funding for Women in Technology NOW.
@GirlGeekAcademy will die if the Federal Government persists with a funding freeze on new community programs until 2024: the 3rd year of Labor’s term.
Thanks @WomensWeeklyMag for my #IWD2023 op-Ed nowtolove.com.au/women-of-the-f…
March 7, 2023
Marie Claire • Brittany Higgins • March 8, 2023 • marieclaire.com.au
Brittany Higgins Unveils New Career After Experience With Australia's Justice System
Brittany Higgins reveals her new goal to study law in order to help young women fight their cases in a court of law. She says she has experienced the justice system first hand, and wants to make sure more women get the support they need to reach justice.
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Centre for Future Work • March 8, 2023 • futurework.org.au
The Times They Aren’t A-Changin (enough) | The Australia Institute's Centre for Future Work
This report examines the barriers to closing the gender gap by reviewing Australia’s position within the industrial countries of the OECD. The report also uses data from the ABS and the ATO to highlight gender disparities across all levels of income, ranges of occupation and ages, as well as disparities regarding who undertakes the greater
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Centre for Future Work@CntrFutureWork
On #IWD2023 research by @ElizaLittleton and @GrogsGamut find that pay gaps cost women at least $1m over their working life and $137,000 in lower super
australiainstitute.org.au/report/the-tim…
March 8, 2023
The Sydney Morning Herald • Thomas Mitchell • March 8, 2023 • smh.com.au
‘I am angry… on behalf of myself and other women’: Lisa Millar condemns social media abuse on air
The ABC News Breakfast presenter called the personal abuse upsetting but also criticised news sites that chose to republish hurtful comments.
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SBS News • Finn McHugh • March 8, 2023 • sbs.com.au
Human rights issues loom over Anthony Albanese's trip to India
As Prime Minister Anthony Albanese travels to India this week, allegations of human rights abuses are coming to the fore.
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Finn McHugh@FinnianMchugh
The PM has traveled to meet Narendra Modi in India today. Mr Albanese says the aim is deepening economic and personal ties with New Delhi. But human rights issues loom large over the trip. Long read via @SBSNews 👇 #auspol
sbs.com.au/news/article/h…
March 8, 2023
The Guardian • Guardian staff reporter • March 8, 2023 • theguardian.com
Rupert Murdoch feared Fox hosts may have gone ‘too far’ on 2020 voter fraud claims, court files show
Email from Murdoch among reams of new evidence unsealed in defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox
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The Guardian • Michael McGowan • March 7, 2023 • theguardian.com
NSW police drop claim that protest involving Deanna ‘Violet’ Coco blocked ambulance
Magistrate hearing case against two co-accused questioned why officers say ‘no ambulance was obstructed’
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Michaela Whitbourn, Zoe Samios • March 8, 2023 • smh.com.au
News Corp joins Ten, Wilkinson in seeking to prove rape in Lehrmann defamation case
News Corp and Network Ten allege in documents filed in the Federal Court that former federal Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann was sexually attracted to Brittany Higgins.
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The Age • Caroline Wilson • March 8, 2023 • theage.com.au
Disgraceful and disgusting: Tom Morris on his downfall
The former rising star is ready to publicly hold a mirror to the self-described arrogant, white, heterosexual male.
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ABC Radio National • March 8, 2023 • abc.net.au
Taliban annuls divorces
It's International Women's Day, but in Afghanistan the rights of women continue to be stripped away. The Taliban has reportedly taken away the right of women to get a divorce, with possible jail time for women who leave their husband.
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