Eden Gillespie

A new report is calling on Australia’s consumer watchdog to crack down on influencers who it claims are profiting off “shoddy advice” and “misinformation” shared to hundreds of thousands of their followers on social media.

When sex worker Georgie Wolf had to report a crime to the police, she was afraid that she’d end up being the one punished. “I was really worried about whether the cops would ask me questions that might incriminate me under current sex work laws. It meant I didn't trust the process, and I was really stressed out,” she told . “If something similar happened again, I'd think twice before I went through that a second time. “I feel a lot safer avoiding…

The Victorian government is embarking on a final push to boost COVID-19 vaccination among Indigenous communities, as jab rates lag behind the state's average.   As of Monday, 91.4 per cent of Victoria's adult population have received one vaccine dose while 74 per cent are fully vaccinated.  Health Minister Martin Foley said almost 80 per cent of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged over 12 have had one vaccine and 58 per cent are fully vaccinated.…

Fearing for their lives, Pantea Motearefi and her family fled Iran in 1993. But 26 years later, Baha’is in Iran are still subjected to fierce religious persecution.

A new report says that one asylum seeker’s knee was inoperable by the time he arrived in Australia under the Medevac legislation.

Parents of Australian citizens and permanent residents who had no choice about what vaccine they received in their home countries are now struggling to enter Australia, despite parents now being allowed to apply for a travel exemption.

As the search for rapid antigen tests (RATs) becomes difficult in parts of Australia, community initiatives are springing up to help people in Australia get tested for COVID-19.

Some members of the LGBTIQ+ community fear the prospect of the Chinese government accessing their personal information.

Parents at the school had been up in arms about Embla, an 11-year-old with Down syndrome, attending classes with their children.

Experts are concerned that designating the entirety of Hamas as a terrorist organisation will make life harder for Gazans and sweep up ordinary Palestinians and Australians in counterterrorism laws.