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Julia Gillard leads a chorus of high-profile women demanding action to stop online abuse
Former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard among 200 other high-profile women are calling for social media CEOs to take action to stop online abuse.
Crystal WuDigital Reporter
July 2, 2021 - 10:15AM
Hundreds of high profile women have signed an open letter to Facebook, Google, Tik Tok and Twitter CEOs calling for them to prioritise the safety of women.
The open letter organised by the Web Foundation has been signed by hundreds of women.
They include former Australia PM Julia Gillard, former New Zealand leader Helen Clarke, actress Emma Watson and Thandie Newton.
Image: WWE / Julia Gillard / Gizmodo Australia
Triple J’s Requestival is a week-long event that invites listeners to submit their own music tracks to be played on the airwaves between 6 a.m. and 9 p.m. every day. It’s a rare celebration, but it’s always worthwhile tuning in because not only do you get to hear some absolute bangers, you
also get to hear some batshit crazy musical choices. Four days into this year’s Requestival, we’ve already seen some flat-out weird shit including special guest appearances from Julia Gillard and WWE’s The Undertaker.
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There has been much debate recently about the way women who work in our federal parliament are treated. This discussion has highlighted that society continues to place very different values on the way women and men behave.
Language – as a behaviour – holds a mirror up to these values. And changing the way we think about language is an important step toward changing the way we think about gender.
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Folk wisdom provides a dizzying array of misleading accounts of how women communicate, many of them riddled with sexism. Proverbs tell us “women’s tongues are like lambs’ tails; they are never still”. But research tells us men talk and interrupt more – especially when they’re speaking to women.
Australian Ministers Open for Talks After Beijing Axes Economic Dialogue Platform
Trade Minister Dan Tehan has expressed disappointment at the suspension of high-level economic dialogue by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), stressing that the Australian government is always open for talks to resume.
On Thursday, the CCP “indefinitely” suspended all future activities under the China-Australia Strategic Economic Dialogue, following last month’s termination of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) arrangements by Foreign Minister Marise Payne.
Tehan told Channel Seven on Friday, “We want to have a dialogue with China; we want to be able to work through our differences.”