One year ago the PM declared violence against women a “national crisis”. Women continue to be killed at a rate of one per week. But until a spate of killings in the past two weeks, the issue has rarely surfaced in the current federal election campaign. @ashleighwyss.bsky.social reports.

As the toll of native animals killed on Victorian roads rises, a petition calling for a $2 vehicle registration levy aims to provide more consistent funding to wildlife rescue and rehabilitation services across the state. Ashleigh Wyss reports. www.thecitizen.org.au/articles/vic...

Frustrated with what they describe as the Australian Government’s failure to protect them from catastrophic global heating, a group of young Australians are taking their concerns to the United Nations. If Canberra won’t listen, they say, perhaps Geneva will. @ashleighwyss.bsky.social reports.

Speaking in Melbourne, exiled Russian independent journalist @zygaro.bsky.social has delivered an intimate account of the weaponisation of disinformation and media repression in Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Today, living in the US, he says “I have a great feeling of deja vu”. Ashleigh Wyss reports.

From earlier this month: Across Australia, at 14 rallies honouring the 117 women killed since January 2024, the unified message of people taking to the streets was raw: ‘Stop Killing Women’. www.thecitizen.org.au/articles/nat...

On a flying visit to Melbourne, Guardian global editor-in-chief Katherine Viner talks about eroding public trust in established news organisations, fuelled by Trumpism and billionaire interference, and what might be done about it. Ashleigh Wyss reports.