Three commissioners, one conversation: Women's advocates brief the Australian Human Rights Commission
Emma is joined by Megan to unpack a significant development for women's advocacy in Australia: a formal meeting between AAWAA, Feminist Legal Clinic, the Coalition of Activist Lesbians, and the Austra...
19 Feb 11min
Underground again: How governance failures erase lesbian rights
Emma and Luci examine violence and discrimination affecting lesbian and bisexual women in Australia. They unpack how governance failures themselves constitute discrimination: the systematic exclusion ...
12 Feb 12min
Male violence against mothers: Making it visible
Emma and Lucy unpack violence against mothers – a form of sex-based harm that remains dangerously invisible in international policy. They examine three interconnected mechanisms: reproductive coercion...
5 Feb 12min
Criminalising advocacy: Why Australia's hate groups bill threatens political freedom
Emma and Megan unpack the Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill 2026 – a framework that criminalises organisational membership based on a vague "unacceptable risk" standard, without procedu...
15 Jan 8min
Christmas wrap 2025: AAWAA's year of consolidation and strategic advocacy
AAWAA's Christmas Wrap for 2025: Emma hosts Martine, Luci, and Suzi as they look back on a transformative year for AAWAA. They discuss coordinated national campaigns on sex self-ID and surrogacy prohi...
23 Des 202522min
Can the ALRC recommend surrogacy prohibition? What the law actually says
On 18 December, feminist organisations attended an ALRC roundtable on surrogacy law reform – and witnessed an independent review apparently structurally compromised. Emma and Amber unpack the governan...
18 Des 20259min
Prohibition or regulation? The ALRC's surrogacy review and feminist resistance
Emma and Amber discuss the Australian Law Reform Commission's review of surrogacy laws, examining why the roundtable with feminist organisations is scheduled for 18 December—one day before the submiss...
11 Des 202510min
Beyond 'yes' and 'no': Structural inequality and the law of rape
In this episode, Emma is joined by Lucy and Liv to discuss their formal submission to the statutory review of sexual consent laws. In 2021, NSW introduced landmark "affirmative consent" reforms. But f...
4 Des 202510min
