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- Sep 30, 2026
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Organised misogyny radicalisation becoming national security issue (opens the original)
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What today's boys are being fed is not just entitlement, it is grievance. Women are no longer cast simply as something to look at — they are cast as the enemy who took something that was owed to them, writes Wayne Hawkins. IN 1968, thousands of men stopped Wall Street to leer at one young woman. Fifty-eight years later, the crowd is back. Only now it lives in our children's phones, and it is angrier. In September 1968, a 21-year-old data clerk named Francine Gottfried walked from the Wall Street
Press freedom under attack from algorithms and cruel clickbait questions (opens the original)
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Watching what both sides of the algorithm actually look like — and why press freedom is now under attack from more than one direction, writes Wayne Hawkins. Earlier this month I argued Australians should be able to switch off the algorithms curating their feeds. I cited research showing boys are fed misogynistic content within roughly 25 minutes of setting up a social media account, and cited the Fix Our Feeds campaign and a cross-bench parliamentary statement backing an algorithm opt-out. Since
Australia’s algorithm opt-out is a fight for freedom of choice (opens the original)
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Australia’s proposed algorithm opt-out would give social media users greater control over what they see, without restricting what anyone can say. Wayne Hawkins writes. THERE WAS A TIME, not that long ago, when opening a social media app meant seeing what your friends actually posted, in the order they posted it. You followed people, they showed up, you scrolled to the end and that was that. Simple. Predictable. Yours. That world is gone, replaced by engagement-optimised feeds engineered to keep
Coalition and One Nation's cheaper smokes crime-fighting con (opens the original)
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The Coalition and One Nation's plan to slash tobacco taxes won't stop organised crime but will come with a hefty public health cost, writes Wayne Hawkins. LAST WEEK, Opposition Leader Angus Taylor stood in front of the cameras and promised to smash organised crime by making cigarettes cheaper. Cut the tobacco excise by 80 per cent, Taylor says, legalise vapes and nicotine pouches, and the black market withers on the vine. One Nation got there first in August with its own 75 per cent cut. Between
Labor risks learning the wrong lesson from One Nation's Secret Harbour win (opens the original)
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Labor risks misreading One Nation’s Secret Harbour victory and repeating its old mistake of chasing the populist Right, writes Wayne Hawkins. ONE NATION has just won its first lower house seat in Western Australia. Secret Harbour, held by Labor in various forms since 1989, most recently on an 11.5 per cent margin, fell to a gym owner who's lived in the state for three years and campaigned partly on bin collection schedules. Premier Roger Cook had called the by-election a “fight for our lives”. H
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