People said Andrew Tate and Huw Edwards were finished. Thank God for Substack!
Alleged and convicted criminals have now found a home on this shiny new media platform, despite others shunning them - and it’s not a good look for any one.
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Widely-published Australian journalist and media consultant who has lived on and reported from five continents for major media over more than 20 years, for about the past 15 covering mostly human rights. Currently niche-less on here.
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This "silent" condition is one of the greatest ignominies a woman can endure.
A fistula, a tear in the vagina or rectum caused by prolonged obstructed labor, can lead to uncontrollable leakage of urine or feces, but also great ostracization and stigma.
How women in Rwanda opened the country's first ice-cream store.
People flocked from all across the east African country for something many had never tasted in their lives.
Where do your clothes end up?
The Barclays uniform, the Pizza Hut uniform, the Toronto Fire Department uniform... You'd be surprised where your hand-me-downs end up.
Surfer girls ride the wave in a country where 50 children drown a day.
Looking back at some of the stories from around the world that have stayed with me.
Cows, not wives. How the bride price works in Uganda.
As in many African nations, the custom of the groom or his family paying money or giving property to the bride's parents upon a marriage has long been considered a cultural "appreciation".
From big things little things grow. The rise of seed libraries around the world.
With their growing popularity, libraries are branching out into a flourishing new catalogue.
We will not be lectured on misogyny. The witch hunt of Julia Gillard in her second act.
The current scapegoating of Australia's first female PM over “women’s-based rights” is unfair, given the country protected trans people in law long before she came to power, among many other reasons.
The time I was an extra in a Bollywood movie with Kylie - and my best bits of the Netflix docu.
All that remains of it is this black-and-white clipping, and my fading memories.
The strangest lockdown ever - a screenplay serialized for Substack.
Need a laugh about some of the crazy sh*t that we did - and survived - during the pandemic? Stuff it, I've decided to publish this here as an excuse to finish it. Read on.
Thoughts and prayers for women and girls in Australia - and for those trying to whip up a culture war.
And why is the new poster girl for the "women's rights" movement backed by a Christian group trying to roll back abortion rights in the US and UK among other places?
"Change calls us here." Takeaways from the world's biggest gender equality conference.
Women Deliver 2026, held in Naarm (Melbourne) last week, focused on climate justice and the rights of Indigenous and Pacific women, among other prescient issues.
Should women comedians be self-deprecating or not? I'm still working it out.
But at Melbourne International Comedy Festival, I saw arguably the world's most unself-deprecating female stand up of our time.
When will enough be enough, when it comes to toxic social media?
Andrew Tate has become a Substack bestseller, going “down a rabbit hole”, and with its "free speech" experiment, goes this platform, too.
Keeping on keeping on
With work, writing, pitching, Substack, finding your voice, life.
It’s a Reform jobs bonanza!
Fluent in Russian? The party is looking for a bookkeeper slash accountant, and there's many other enticing (that's enticing, not Richard Tice) roles.
Sorry Holly Valance, but not “every one starts out a lefty and wakes up at some point” - surely the UK's Palestine Action protests showed this?
When it comes to whether we actually become more progressive as we age, there's some promising research, and then we have the hard, physical evidence.
Everything I’ve seen on LinkedIn in 2026. A poem.
An ode to our favorite, most unhinged site that although seems just another Facebook, will always be one-of-a-kind. Plus a comedy update. And, a NEW Substack!
Canada has banned "ghosting" in the job application process.
And thanks to a network of mothers, one province now also has greater pay transparency when it comes to adverts for roles. Should other countries take a leaf out of Canada’s book?
The time has come to do something about X - but it won't be easy.
Could 2026 be the year that the platform formerly known as Twitter is banned?