Older women fall between every plan: Male violence, policy, and the gap no one is closing
No country in the world has a dedicated national plan on violence against older women. Not one. In this episode, Emma and Megan unpack why, covering the way older women get absorbed into sex-neutral p...
21 Maj 13min
When consent law looks for excuses, not proof
In this episode, Emma talks with Lucy about what NSWWAA saw inside DCJ’s stakeholder roundtable on the sexual consent reforms review. They walk through the structural gap between the domestic‑abuse la...
19 Maj 11min
The Court has spoken: Women are no longer pre-eminent in our own law
On 15 May 2026, the Full Federal Court handed down its decision in Giggle for Girls Pty Ltd v Tickle — and buried inside the legal reasoning is an acknowledgment that women's advocates have been waiti...
15 Maj 5min
Dismantling stereotypes — or reinforcing them? The CEDAW Committee's confused framework
Emma is joined by Suzi and Luci to unpack CEDAW’s Draft General Recommendation 41 on ‘gender stereotypes’ and why AAWAA decided to intervene. They walk through how the draft quietly shifts from sex to...
14 Maj 13min
TUF. Prostitution and the sexual contract
In this episode, Martine and Liv look at prostitution through a second-wave, materialist feminist lens — and at why the shift to "sex work" language matters more than it might first appear. Drawing on...
7 Maj 11min
Surrogacy is not 'fertility support': Our evidence to the NSW inquiry
In this bonus episode, we share some of the audio of our appearance before the NSW Legislative Council’s inquiry into fertility support and assisted reproductive treatment. Presented under public inte...
1 Maj 19min
Power, proportionality, and the Lesbian Action Group: When the AHRC stands in its own shoes
Last week the President of the Australian Human Rights Commission addressed the National Press Club. We were there — and we asked him why Parliament should extend the Commission's enforcement powers o...
30 Apr 15min
Guardianship, not paternalism: A different way to think about surrogacy and the state
Before the NSW Legislative Council even asked its first question, we made a deliberate choice: to shift the entire frame of the hearing. In this short episode, Emma and Megan discuss the opening state...
23 Apr 10min
