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The film industry has been accused of perpetuating gender discrimination in a new UN backed study. The landmark research, revealed by women’s activist and actress Geena Davis, found that female characters have fewer than one-third of all speaking roles in film and are largely absent from powerful positions on screen. The study, from the Annenberg […]

Calm, confident and reasoned, Julia Gillard had some hard words for her critics in an exclusive interview with Ray Martin on the Nine Network to publicise her book My Story. They were directed at Alan Jones, the Canberra Press Gallery, the harshness of the public critique and those who chose to judge her on personal issues not political ones.

"F**k it I quit": An Alaskan reporter quits live on air in expletive laden rant after she reveals herself to be a cannabis club owner.

Former Governor-General and Queensland domestic violence taskforce chair Dame Quentin Bryce has urged everyone to take action on domestic violence.

A new study from a British vitamin brand claims that the average woman spends roughly 10 days a year in a "grumpy" mood.

The operator of inner western Sydney convenience store destroyed by fire earlier this month has been charged over the deaths of three people killed in the Rozelle blast UPDATE: Police arrested 44-year-old Adeel Khan today at his hospital bedside and charged him with three counts of murder, two counts of attempted murder and three counts of […]

Police have found a number of bones from bushland in the search for missing toddler William Tyrell, reports The Sydney Morning Herald. The three-year-old boy has now been missing for 10 days after he disappeared from his grandmother’s home in Kendall, on the NSW central coast, on Friday, September 12. At a community meeting on […]

Former Prime Minister John Howard strayed from the usual straight laced political agenda to give Channel 7’s Sunday Night viewers a glimpse of his softer side on a few emotional topics.

Police have scaled back their search for missing three-year-old William Tyrell, nine days after he disappeared from his grandmother’s home on the NSW Mid North Coast. On Sunday police confirmed that the search would now shift its focus to the pieces of information they have received since the toddler’s unexplained disappearance. About 70 police and […]

Tom Meagher, the husband of Jill Meagher, has written an emotional tribute to his wife, two years after she was murdered in Melbourne.