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Christmas Island Refugees
Barbed wire cannot contain life: even with their lips sewn their mouths speak. - Jake Dennis Alarmingly, the last resort for many whose cries for help are ignored is self-harm. From early twentieth...
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Paying back the debt
In the small South American town of El Alto, Bolivia, Luisa owns and runs an auto-repair shop. Like many in the fast-expanding mountain town, Luisa relies on micro-financing to float her business....
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Calling for Submissions – Gender Month
In recognition of International Women’s Day on March 8, We Matter Media will be featuring stories throughout March that explore the theme of gender. We’re looking for features, interviews, videos,...
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A fair trial for all?
A fair court system is the basis of a democratic society. In Australia, a crucial component of the courts is skilled representation by a lawyer who is able to put an individual’s best case forward....
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We Matter Media Feature – Gender
This month on We Matter Media, we dare to broach the always contentious issue of gender. It’s bizarre to think that biology – a random happening, really – has the power to affect not only how we see...
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A woman’s worth
We’ve come such a long way, but there is still so far to go. Despite our advancements in representation, or perhaps because of them, women’s voices in the media continue to be marginalised and...
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Slut Pride
In 2012, I SlutWalked for the first time, in Melbourne. SlutWalk is a two-year-old global feminist event created in response to the fact that the culture we live in blames women who get raped for being...
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Calling for Submissions – Health
World Health Day is coming up on April 7, so throughout the month on We Matter Media, we’re focussing on health matters. Currently, we’re seeking a broad range of stories that explore anything to do...
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He, she and…
Although identifying people and actions as feminine or masculine has long been commonplace in North American culture, more and more people are stepping out of the binary gender system. Non-gender...
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Preventative healthcare – not just for old people
For most of my 28 years, bad health has been something that’s happened to other people. If I was going to get sick, surely it was going to be something catastrophic and beyond my control, like cancer...
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