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The Identities Of Rape And Assault Survivors Were Accidentally Revealed In A #MeToo Documentary
Australia’s public broadcaster has been forced to apologise after it distributed to journalists a documentary about the #MeToo movement that identified survivors of rape and assault without their consent.
The names, images and harrowing stories of...
This Feminist Group Was Meant To Lead Australia's #MeToo Movement. It's Barely Delivered Anything.
NOW was the Australian version of Time’s Up, the organisation started by Hollywood celebrities in January 2018 that has raised more than $22 million for its legal defence fund, and connected thousands of men and women to lawyers.
But in its first 18...
Dozens Of Women Are Waiting For Surgical Abortions As Coronavirus Travel Restrictions Delay Doctors
Up to 80 women on surgical abortion lists around Australia could be left in limbo as doctors fight to be exempt from the new coronavirus travel restrictions to provide vital sexual and reproductive healthcare.
Australia's largest abortion provider...
Two "My Kitchen Rules" Contestants Were Covertly Filmed In A Sex Act. Channel Seven Staff Allegedly "Cheered" At The Footage.
Two contestants set to appear on the next season of My Kitchen Rules were filmed being sexually intimate without their knowledge, and the footage then allegedly shared among Channel Seven staff.
In the upcoming season of the cooking show, contestants...
Doctor accuses Border Force of exerting political influence on Nauru
Dr Martin is the most senior official deployed on Nauru to speak publicly about Australia's offshore detention regime.
His allegations are backed by an extensive cache of leaked documents obtained as part of a joint investigation between 7.30 and...
This Sexual Assault Survivor Decided Not To Press Charges. Then Police Took Away Her Other Option.
Marie — a pseudonym to protect her privacy — is a cautious online dater.
“I usually go through a long vetting process of talking with them online first,” the 32-year-old told BuzzFeed News. “I like to think I’m really careful with people and I don’t...
Women Who Feel Ignored By Their Doctors Are Turning To An Instagram Tea Released By A Model
Sydney model agency owner Brigitte Warne’s health rapidly deteriorated after she came off the oral contraceptive pill to start a family. She developed cystic acne, her hair began falling out, and “vicious cycles of severe anxiety” made her withdraw...
White Ribbon Australia Has Withdrawn Its Support For Reproductive Rights
BuzzFeed News broke the story that White Ribbon had withdrawn a statement that said “all women should have complete control over their reproductive and sexual health”.
The retracted statement was first issued in February 2017 during a previous push...
Women In Regional Australia Will Have To Drive For Hours To Get An Abortion
Hundreds of women seeking surgical terminations in regional New South Wales will now have to go to Canberra, as the service they were accessing in Victoria will no longer take them as patients.
A Supplier Refused To Fill A Face Mask Order For An Australian Abortion Provider Because They're For "Health Professionals"
Australia's largest abortion provider says its supply of face masks and hand sanitiser for carrying out surgical abortions will only last two more weeks after a number of orders from private personal protective equipment (PPE) providers were cancelled...
Their Loved Ones Were Murdered By Men. Careless Journalists Compounded Their Grief.
Nikita’s partner stabbed her 35 times, an ambush as she slept, before calling the police to turn himself in in the early hours of Jan. 9, 2015.
Tarang Chawla remembers there was a breaking news story “within hours” of his sister’s death. “At that...
Another Liberal Staffer Shared A Meme About The Coronavirus Saving Lives If It Takes Out Planned Parenthood
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An advisor to New South Wales police...
Abortion Providers Will Be Treated As Essential Health Workers During This Pandemic
Multiple state health departments have confirmed that abortion doctors will be exempt from travel restrictions if travelling interstate to carry out surgical abortions, as the procedure is essential, not elective.
BuzzFeed News this week revealed up...
This Video Shows An Anti-Abortion Picketer Offering A Woman Help With Immigration If She "Keeps The Baby"
"I learnt that one of the things they do is specifically target people of colour and migrant patients who are trying to access the clinic," the 24-year-old Chinese-Australian told BuzzFeed News.
"[The patients] are told that if they keep their baby,...
This Sex Worker Who Was Sexually Assaulted Didn’t Think She Would Be Believed. Now Her Client Is Going To Jail
“They’re not going to believe me because I’m a sex worker.”
This is what Nikki Cox — a pseudonym she works under — thought to herself when she drove to a police station after she was sexually assaulted by a client, who booked with the name Alex, in...
The Coronavirus Is Showing Up Gaps In Australia’s Abortion Access
Fiona had just survived a brutal bushfire season and moved into a small tin shed with her two toddlers and partner while they built their family home when the coronavirus outbreak hit.
“Then I found out I was pregnant,” Fiona — a pseudonym to...
A Journalist, Editor, Survivor, Lawyer, And Academic Weigh In On What's Holding Back #MeToo In Australia
In the United States, allegations against Harvey Weinstein propelled a flood of investigations and the downfall of more than 200 public figures, but there has been a relative dearth of #MeToo stories published in Australia — even accounting for...
This Liberal Politician Is Letting His Mum Send Out Anti-Abortion Propaganda From His Office
Federal member for Petrie Luke Howarth's mother Denise used his electorate officer's computer and email address to send a flyer to a constituent. Denise Howarth writes that she is planning on letterboxing certain electorates with her flyers, which she...
A Postal Abortion Service That Sent RU486 To Thousands Of Women Is Shutting Down
The Tabbot Foundation was founded in Sept. 2015 by Dr Paul Hyland, who said his service had provided medical terminations to around 6,000 Australian women living "as far east as Lord Howe Island and as far west as Rottnest Island".
"After we finish...
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