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The American movement that wants women’s votes back in their husband’s hands
11+ hour, 35+ min ago (343+ words) The sales pitch is togetherness. The real goal is completely erasing a voting bloc that skews left, writes Alysha Gray. “If you don’t vote you don’t count…. The voting booth is the one place on earth where the least powerful…...
Postpartum politics: What it means to run for government as a new mum
3+ day, 10+ hour ago (327+ words) Victorian Greens candidates Nina Crawley and Lini Fernando reflect on their experiences running a political campaign just months after giving birth. From the challenges and compromises to the support networks that wrapped around them, and why showing up vulnerably in…...
More than 20,000 Palestinian children killed, and yet Australia still looks away
5+ day, 5+ hour ago (1250+ words) Last week, Cheek Media’s Bernadette Clarke joined 200 Illawarra locals to hear UN Commissioner Chris Sidoti and neurosurgeon Dr Ruth Mitchell speak about the impacts of Israel’s genocide on Palestinian children. The evening served as a stark reminder of how the…...
Australia leads the world in arresting climate protesters
6+ day, 5+ hour ago (1294+ words) Australia has a world-leading record of arresting climate protestors, meanwhile multi-billion dollar corporations are perfecting the tactic of “legal bullying” to intimidate their critics, writes Cheek’s Varsha Yajman. In November 2025, NSW Police arrested 141 people who attempted to block the shipping…...
Don't let Israel's defenders decide what counts as antisemitism
1+ week, 5+ hour ago (623+ words) Conflating criticism of Israel with genuine antisemitism makes Jewish Australians less safe, because it tells us all that criticism of a foreign government and hatred of a diaspora community are the same thing, writes Jewish Council of Australia executive officer,…...
We need real, urgent action on violence against women, but is banning strangulation porn just another easy way out for our Government?
1+ week, 2+ day ago (83+ words) Hannah Ferguson | Substack We need real, urgent action on violence against women, but is banning strangulation porn just another easy way out for our Government? Cheek’s recap on the week that was. It’s been another big week in the Cheek…...
Australia’s former human rights commissioner says the state of international law has never been so dire
1+ week, 4+ day ago (854+ words) Cheek sits down with UN Commissioner Chris Sidoti ahead of his address for the Association for the Promotion of International Law, in which he will present the findings of the latest UN report into Israel's systematic destruction of childhood in…...
The floods in Nepal have rightfully made headlines in Australia, but what about other stories from the Global South?
1+ week, 6+ day ago (912+ words) As a South Asian Australian, the lack of coverage on the Global South’s climate disasters is a constant reminder of how racism continues to pervade our media, writes Cheek’s Varsha Yajman. Seeing headlines about the floods in Nepal has felt…...
How many more women have to die before our leaders act?
2+ week, 5+ hour ago (552+ words) 49 women in Australia have been killed so far this year. Yesterday, journalist and leading campaigner against femicide, Sherele Moody, pointed out that we have just lost three women to male violence in the last four days. You may not know…...
I skipped school to strike for climate action, but now I’d vote against protecting the forest
2+ week, 5+ day ago (1259+ words) Cheek’s Digital Content Producer, Varsha Yajman, unpacks how Labor’s Great Koala National Park is wedging environmentalists - and why the carbon credits scheme proposed to fund the project might actually do more harm than the deforestation it’s supposed to combat. In…...