From The Australian this weekend. The video accompanying the article is particularly worth a watch. Archived article available here: archive.md/kyPZF

‘The world’ is also here. Supposedly peaceful countries like Australia are responsible for exporting weapons to belligerents in wars and those who arm them. This recent report shows the Australian arms export trade is particularly opaque. www.quakersaustralia.org.au/wp-content/u...

News from the UK. A teeny step in the right direction? or a move that will end up reinforcing the idea that some pornography is ‘acceptable’? (if it isn’t snuff or gonzo, if it doesn’t have choking….). In any case it’s a step better than Oz! www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

‘[Displays span]…the beautiful, the menacing and the extremely cool.’ Richard Marles, speaking at the Indo Pacific International Maritime Exposition in Sydney, 4 November. Yet, Australia’s growing arms industry lacks transparency. www.hrw.org/news/2025/08.... Sure, Richard. Really cool.

« A crisis of apathy ». This is how one senior UN official characterises the world’s attitude to the war in Sudan. www.unwomen.org/en/news-stor... Women and children have as always been particular targets, as last week’s attack by the Rapid Support Forces on el-Fasher maternity hospital shows.

Congratulations @labwomendec.bsky.social on your amazing stall and fringe event at the recent UK Labour Party Conference. We in Australia on the left look up to you that you can do this!

AF4WR have written to the Qld Minister for Health, Tim Nicholls, re Jillian Spencer’s case. Spencer was suspended then sacked from her job as child psychiatrist at Qld Children’s Hospital after raising objections to the so-called ‘gender affirmation’ model used in treatment of minors.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre.... In the social media brouhaha about Charlie Kirk, the Epstein files have been all but forgotten. But if we are to grieve for anyone this week, let us grieve for the hundreds of women and girls who were trafficked and abused by Epstein.

Minister for Women: Who are your real stakeholders? Minister Katy Gallagher, are you aware you appear to be captured by forces opposed to feminism who are destroying women's rights? See letter to the Minister at bottom of this linked post. ##restorewomensrights womensadvocacy.net/2025/09/03/m...

We have many questions. How was this allowed to happen? Where is the condemnation of these neo nazis by our political leaders who previously defamed us women at the Let Women Speak rally in 2023 by confusing us for the neo nazis?

Thank you for your national leadership Senator Malarndirri McCarthy.

Our political representatives and activist groups continue to use the scare tactic of heightened suicide risk among transgender-identified youth. But here's the thing. *The risk is not borne out by the evidence*. See for example: segm.org/Suicide-Gend...

Well, the SMH/Age have woken up a week late: finally reporting on the Giggle v. Tickle appeal with the headline “case centred on what a ‘woman’ means”. archive.md/L4pie

We need to #restorewomensrights. This week's #gigglevtickle appeal in the Federal Court has again shown that Human Rights Commission is interpreting our SDA to give precedence to males who claim to have a gender identity over the sex-based rights, safety and dignity of women. #auspol

The legal 'idea' that discrimination law can be constructed to coerce us all to 'see' some males as girls and women has serious unintended consequences for girls and women's participation. Why was Parliament's intention hijacked like this? And, who will fix it? archive.is/2025.08.06-1...

The legal 'idea' that discrimination law can be constructed to coerce us all to 'see' some males as girls and women has serious unintended consequences for girls' and women's participation. Why was Parliament's intention hijacked like this? And, who will fix it? archive.is/2025.08.06-1...

Background on Tickle v Giggle case (Sall Grover’s appeal being heard by full bench of Federal Court in w/b 4 August). archive.md/nw8PA? You can also support Sall Grover’s fundraiser for her court fees here: gigglecrowdfund.com.

This. (Those who read The Australian yesterday may recognise the photo.)

Unwitting or not, it is certainly a manual for doctor-assisted self-harm, and it wouldn’t be the first time in medical history we’ve seen it, particularly as concerns medical harms done to girls and women.

“One does not make a baby like one makes a cake”: read our submission to the Australian Law Reform Commission on its review of Australian surrogacy legislation. af4wr.org/wp-content/u...

The fireys, blue collar unions – and some male politicians – continue to live up to their reputation for overt sexism. The slogan ‘ditch the bitch’ directed at Victorian premier Jacinta Allan echoes that levelled at Julia Gillard when she was PM. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

For once our courts seem prepared to listen to women. The Federal Court full bench has granted leave to the Lesbian Action Group to intervene in favour of women-only spaces during the upcoming hearing of Sall Grover’s appeal of Justice Bromwich’s 2024 decision. feministlegal.org/protect-our-...

This fact from The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age yesterday is from NSW before it introduced 'gender self-ID' legislation this week. Has it been impossible to count male childcare workers in Victoria because of their 'gender self ID' legislation? #safeguarding #childsexualabuse #auspol

"Article 9 of the Declaration on Women's Sex-Based Rights reaffirms the need for the protection of the rights of the child, incl the right to grow up free from harmful medical interventions such as 'puberty blockers'." womensdeclarationusa.com/wdi-usa-pres... Women's Declaration International USA

Good news from the UK. "Originally passed by an all-male parliament elected by men alone, this Victorian law is increasingly used against vulnerable women and girls." The Antoniazzi amendment won the support from 379 MPs, with 137 against. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Are you listening @markbutlermp.bsky.social ?

The Australian Law Reform Commission is reviewing Australia’s surrogacy laws. Part of the brief is liberalisation. Terms of Reference: www.alrc.gov.au/inquiry/revi.... We urge all those opposed to surrogacy to read the Issues Paper and make a submission by 11 July: www.alrc.gov.au/publication/...

Australia fell prey to the gender medical industry under the Abbott, Turnbull and Morrison governments which repeatedly failed to understand the importance of the NHMRC's role at the helm of our Australian health system governance keeping it evidence-based. Aus doctors are in an untenable position.

Latest news from the UK: NHS Health Minister Wes Streeting, is "actively reviewing" banning or restricting the private prescription of cross-sex hormones to young people, according to evidence given to the High Court. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Congratulations to @ABCReligion and Ethics Report for doing the job vacated by the ABC Health Report when it comes to reporting on the lack of medical evidence for treating gender dysphoria with lifelong drugs n surgeries. 👏👏👏 www.abc.net.au/religion/cat...

Good news and bad news. Good: NSW parliament passed a bill allowing nurse practitioners and midwives to administer medical abortions up to 9 weeks. Bad: it only passed because a requirement that Xtian doctors with moral objections refer women elsewhere was *removed*. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

Bravissime to the women who run Fernwood Fitness for preserving women-only safe spaces where women can exercise freely. www.facebook.com/100044390197...?

Terrific article from Faika El_Nagashi on so-called “sex-work”. open.substack.com/pub/faikaeln...

For those who have not yet seen it, here is the link to register for the 22 May Australian launch of award-winning Scottish poet Jenny Lindsay’s book ‘Hounded: Women, Harms and the Gender Wars’. events.humanitix.com/virtual-laun...

For Yarra LGA residents: Yarra City Council meets *Tuesday 13 May 6.30pm in Richmond Town Hall*. After the over 1,000 complaints it received re an image of a bound and gagged woman on a wall in a Fitzroy street, we think this may be on the agenda. Livestream here: webcast.yarracity.vic.gov.au

"They used us as cover, as their Trojan horse into womanhood – while liberal feminists, progressive parties, and everyone invested in the new orthodoxy (including more than enough lesbians) looked away". open.substack.com/pub/faikaeln...

"The Melbourne Women Will Speak (WWS) rally on 26 April was a triumph for women that saw a planned attack by masked trans-activists prevented from terrorising and silencing those in attendance." Read our full statement: af4wr.org/statement_wo...

Now, who would you trust to (a) have an intelligent conversation with and (b) respect your rights?

Vale Virginia Giuffre. You survived sexual abuse, prostitution, and trafficking long enough to speak out against those who pimped and abused you, and gave others courage to do so. We grieve for you, for the toll it took on you. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A reminder for those in Melbourne this Saturday. AF4WR is not involved in organising this event, but we support women’s right to speak without threat of violence or other forms of intimidation.

To anyone who continues either to have difficulty understanding the UK Supreme Court judgment of 16 April, or to disingenuously misinterpret it, you need to read this, by a KC who is a commissioner with the UK Equality and Human Rights Commission. archive.is/9pyRp#select...

Australian Feminists for Women’s Rights pays tribute to the co founders of For Women Scotland, including the late Magdalen Berns, for their tenacity and clarity in restoring girl's and women's rights in the UK from the grassroots. youtu.be/ZZQo2pGor7g?...

Exactly.

Wow! A unanimous decision is a very strong win. Congratulations For Women Scotland (!) for your wise, steady and collaborative approach to getting the legislative incoherence in Scotland sorted out on behalf of women and girls! Here in Australia, we are so inspired. supremecourt.uk/cases/uksc-2...

New women's group Women's Voices Australia will be holding a speaking event on the steps of the Victorian Parliament House on Saturday 26 April.