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Editor's note
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One aspect of domestic violence we don’t hear enough about is reproductive coercion. This takes many forms, but can involve abusive partners forcing women into unwanted pregnancies, forcing them to terminate a pregnancy, or sabotaging their birth control. We don’t have good data on how often this occurs, and our health care staff aren’t trained to recognise it. There are things we can do to help, but as Laura Tarzia and Molly Wellington write, the only real fix is to shift away from a culture of male entitlement to women’s bodies.
Sexual abuse, harassment and discrimination pervade parts of Australian academia, according to a study by the Australian Women’s History Network. Of 159 respondents from across Australia, nearly half reported abuse and harassment, including male colleagues pressuring female academics into sex.
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Alexandra Hansen
Health + Medicine Section Editor/Global Editor
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Contraception is sometimes controlled in abusive relationships.
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Laura Tarzia, University of Melbourne; Molly Wellington, University of Melbourne
Associated with intimate partner violence, there are many ways in which reproductive choice is taken away from women.
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Arts + Culture
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Laura Rademaker, Australian National University; Alana Piper, University of Technology Sydney; Andy Kaladelfos, Griffith University; Anne Rees, La Trobe University; Jordana Silverstein, University of Melbourne; Katherine Ellinghaus, University of Melbourne; Mary Tomsic, University of Melbourne; Naomi Wolfe, Australian Catholic University; Nikki Henningham
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Science + Technology
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Duncan Blake, University of Adelaide
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Education
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Gareth Evans, Australian National University; Brian Schmidt, Australian National University
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Philip Gibbons, Australian National University
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
Michelle Grattan speaks with Mark Evans about the week in politics.
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Amanda Walsh, Australian Catholic University
A new parliamentary report has taken an informed and sensible approach to developing regional Australia, without simply focusing on the contentious issue of decentralisation.
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Adrienne O'Neil, University of Melbourne
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