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Ultra-conservative MP Fred Nile has sparked a furious debate by declaring surviving men taken hostage in the Martin Place siege should not be given bravery awards. “Usually men try to protect the women but it looks like the men were trying to protect their own skins,” he said on Channel 7‘s Sunrise program this morning. […]

HaMavaser, an ultra-orthodox Jewish publication, stands accused of photoshopping three female world leaders out of a picture taken at the Paris march in solidarity. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo and EU foreign affairs and security chief, Frederica Mogherini have allegedly been removed from the photograph. In an attempt to also crop out […]

Kate Row and Emily Smith are the two extraordinary Aussie young women who are today pinching themselves with disbelief having been named as winners of The Queen’s Young Leaders Award. This is an inspirational new initiative established by The Queen Elizabeth  Diamond Jubilee Trust to find and mentor the Commonwealth’s most promising young leaders. Each […]

Farmer Geoff Hunt shot his wife and three children dead before turning his gun on himself after years of stress in dealing with his wife’s brain injuries, an inquest is expected to hear. In a murder-suicide case that shocked the nation, the 44-year-old killed his wife Kim, son Fletcher, 10, and daughters Mia, 8, and […]

Children, women and elderly people who couldn’t run away fast enough when Islamist extremists stormed their town were among an estimated 2,000 killed in a bloody massacre that went almost unreported last week. Hundreds of bodies are reportedly still lying in the bush in the wake of what Amnesty International is describing as “the deadliest […]

Conservationists are angry after an Icelandic micro-brewery announced its new beer will be made from smoked whale testicles.

Supporters of terror group Daesh, formerly referred to as ISIS, IS or ISIL, hacked into the US Central Command’s Twitter and YouTube accounts this morning, posting taunts and threats to soldiers, their wives and children. The hackers said their so-called CyberCaliphate [online Islamic state] was “already here, we are in your PCs, in each military […]

Free speech, because so many of the most powerful actors in Hollywood decided to stand up for it, even in a year in which Sony decided to cancel the release of a film because North Korea didn’t like it; and older women in complex roles because, perhaps for the first time, there were so many […]

A permanent memorial to the victims of the Sydney siege is to be erected in Martin Place using the hundreds of floral tributes that were laid out.

Tatiana Tauaifaga was playing in the backyard of her home in Constitution Hill when a driver ploughed through the fence in an allegedly stolen black Audi, with police not far behind.