There it was again last night, on display for the nation to see. The strength, the stoicism and the ultimate sadness that has come to define Rosie Batty – the mother who lost her 11-year old son, Luke to a wholly preventable act of violence at the hands of his father during cricket practice in February.

Survivors of Victoria's 2009 Black Saturday bushfires have secured almost half a billion dollars in the largest class action settlement in the country's history.

Queensland real estate agent Gerard Baden-Clay has been found guilty of his wife's murder and sentenced to life in prison.

Model Jennifer Hawkins the Today Show's Lisa Wilkinson and actor Rachel Griffiths are among the panel of eminent Australian women selected to help find this year's Women of the Future.

Harry Potter author JK Rowling is writing a trilogy of new films based on her 2001 magic textbook.

Australia's own Catherine Martin famous for her sumptuous costumes and designs in husband Baz Luhrmann's films has been recognised as a style legend.

New Zealand has lost its first female soldier in more than 40 years in a roadside bomb attack in Afghanistan. Medic Lance Corporal Jacinda Baker, 26, died yesterday when the vehicle she was travelling in was hit by a roadside bomb northwest of Do Abe. Corporal Luke Tamatea, 31, and Richard Harris, 21, were also […]

News organisations agree they need to do more to attract women readers. The question is — what? Jordan Baker talks to Australia’s leading newspaper publishers and editors. Garry Linnell, editorial director at Fairfax, admits that newspapers have failed women readers in the past. Until about five years ago, he says, “there was a fairly large […]

They survived wars, hardship and personal tragedies, and after lives of struggle, expected to spend their final years in peace, surrounded by their loving families. Instead, their lives were stolen in terrifying circumstances. At 5am on November 18, fire broke out at the Quakers Hill Nursing Home in Sydney. Three people lost their lives at […]

Last month, a jury found Des Campbell guilty of murdering his wife, Janet. While she paid the ultimate price, Janet was not the only woman he lied to, manipulated and cheated out of large amounts of money. June Ingham wishes that she had never met Des Campbell, the man at the centre of one of […]