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Inspired by the Bechdel Test, a Swedish video-game trade group wants to determine if video games that don't promote gender equality deserve a "sexist" label similar to those for violence, adult language, and sexually explicit content.

Six of the eight finalists for the 2015 Australian of the Year Award are women – the highest number of female finalists in the category since the State and Territory award process was introduced in 2003. They include Deborra-lee Furness (NSW), Rosie Batty (VIC), Hetty Johnston AM (QLD), Professor Lyn Beazley AO (WA), Dr Gill […]

Samantha Lewthwaite, a "bright and popular" British schoolgirl who went on to become one of the world’s most wanted terror suspects, has reportedly been shot dead by a Russian sniper.

New York firefighters have rescued two window washers who were stuck on collapsed scaffolding 69 storeys above the ground at the World Trade Center site in Manhattan. According to reports the cradle malfunctioned on Wednesday shortly before 1pm. Around 2 p.m., rescue workers were seen cutting a hole in a window and pulling the dangling […]

Westpac CEO Gail Kelly has announced that she will retire from her position in February next year. Mrs Kelly will be replaced by Brian Hartzer, the chief executive of Westpac’s Australian Financial Services division. Chairman Lindsay Maxsted said Ms Kelly, who has led Westpac for seven years, made “outstanding contribution” to the bank. “Gail is […]

Deborra-lee Furness has been named 2015 NSW Australian of the Year for her work as a child advocate and adoption campaigner. The Australian Women’s Weekly October cover girl was announced as the recipient by Premier of NSW, Mike Baird, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney on Monday night. “An actor, director and producer, […]

Police issue a new appeal for information as they step up their search to find missing toddler William Tyrell before Christmas. It has been two months since the three-year-old vanished without a trace from his grandmother’s home on the NSW Mid North Coast on September 12. While hundreds of pieces of information have come through […]

Former Queensland Premier Wayne Goss has died, aged 63. According to the ABC a Goss family spokesman, Russ Morgan, confirmed Mr Goss had died in the early hours of Monday morning. In 1989, Mr Goss became the first Labor premier after 32 years of National Party dominance, much of it under former Premier Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen. […]

Police have issued a warning to partygoers following the tragic death of a 19-year-old woman at a dance party in Sydney on Saturday.

On Monday Australia said goodbye to Harold Herman, a WWII digger who lost his leg fighting in New Guinea and whose acts of heroism extend even beyond death.