Women

Yasmin Jammoul was sick of wearing oversized men's T-shirts to the gym when she started exercising postpartum, so she created her own clothing line.

A newly uncovered fresco in Pompeii tells the story of women, wine and Roman hedonism. Buried beneath the spectacle lies a lesson about restraint and why some discoveries should be left to the future.

A committed advocate to furthering free speech and women's rights in her birth country, Satrapi lost her husband, Swedish actor Mattias Ripa, in April last year, and "died of sadness", according to French media.

A south-west Victorian football club has apologised after it allowed a convicted sex offender to return to the club after a stint in jail.

The Liberal Party has quietly published a paper that floats offering a cut price $10 digital membership to join the party, in an effort to offset its declining numbers.

When a man who sexually assaulted a minor on a post-season football trip was welcomed back to the club with open arms, Megan decided she was done.

Savannah Last has been a "karate kid" since she was two, but when she was attacked by a group of teenagers last year, she felt "hopeless".

Films are four times more likely to feature a talking animal lead than a woman over 60. These charts explain the state of film for older women. 

A former board member of a women's shed in Victoria has been evicted after allegedly "spewing" discriminatory and hurtful comments about transgender people. 

From Hildegard von Bingen to Hildur Guðnadóttir, here are some of the most influential women of the music world in history and today.

Not All Clubs calls out inequality in sporting organisations across the country. This weekend, the group is calling on teams to wear red armbands in memory of the women whose lives have been claimed by gender-based violence this year.

One of South Australia's first female licensed driving instructors has been remembered for her tireless advocacy and devotion to her community.

A Queensland cricket team, started by a mother who wanted to give her autistic daughter a safe space to play, has just embarked on an international tour.

Soon-to-be parents in regional WA will have less choice over where and how they give birth as care options diminish, midwives say.

A former track photographer, Georgia Tillyer bought her car, lovingly-named Night Fury, and learnt how to drive manual to enter her first event at Sydney Motorsport Park.

Before rising conflict pushed the Strait of Hormuz into the spotlight as a choke point vital to economies globally, tourism transformed women's lives.

Dozens of Central Land Council Aboriginal rangers gathered east of Alice Springs last week for the 2026 Women's Ranger Camp — a time for health, learning and healing in the wake of the town's recent loss of Kumanjayi Little Baby. 

Beyond the Kitchen, a course run by Multicultural Services Centre of WA, gives women from migrant, refugee and asylum seeker backgrounds a safe space to develop friendships and hospitality business skills.

Alexandra Kiroi-Bogatyreva trained up to 10 hours a day, six days a week, often without the proper nutrition. She wants others to know what that can do to the body.

The arrest of three Australian women linked to the Islamic State group sparks anger and frustration inside the Syrian refugee camp where they had lived for years.