Kate Lyons is a reporter for Guardian Australia. Email: kate.lyons@theguardian.com
July 2024
A Japanese woman and her son were forced to stay in Australia, now they are being forced to leave
‘I just want to be able to get my vibrator out’: the fight for sexual rights in aged care homes
How a family was left ‘shattered’ by a Homesafe contract on their single mother’s home
The older Australians who regret signing over life savings to a ‘wealth release’ scheme
June 2024
Julian Assange en route to US Pacific island after accepting US plea deal – as it happened
Julian Assange to be sentenced at a hearing on the island of Saipan Wednesday; WikiLeaks founder’s wife says he will seek a US pardon
Newington College head blasts parents and alumni for ‘behaviour inconsistent with our values’
Michael Parker criticises ‘deliberate negativity’ of a ‘very small group’ but does not refer directly to opponents of controversial plans to admit girls
Victoria to trial pill testing as a ‘commonsense way to save lives’, Jacinta Allan says
Full Story
The destructive consequences of financial abuse – Full Story podcast
Australia news live
Minns ‘really sorry’ final Vivid drone show cancelled with 20 minutes notice – as it happened
May 2024
‘It was like a lifeline’: the money clinics helping women escape financial abuse
‘We start the day with 60 people waiting’: the lawyers helping the ‘never-ending list’ of Australia’s DV victims
‘I couldn’t do it any more’: family lawyers quit amid burnout and pain of billing DV victims
Police officer allegedly stabbed in the head in Sydney’s CBD
Australia news live
Budget replies reveal Coalition ‘all over the shop’, PM says, labelling Dutton’s nuclear policy ‘shocking’ – as it happened
Debt, danger or a decade of fighting: how a lack of legal services leaves DV victims with dire choices
Ten years and $200,000: the cost in Australia of protecting a child from an abusive ex-partner
Horror and fury in Australia as epidemic of violence against women sweeps across the country
April 2024
Almost 30% spike in rate of Australian women killed by intimate partner last year, data shows
Sharp rise in 2022-23 from previous year despite 30-year downward trend
The demise of Twitter: how a ‘utopian vision’ for social media became a ‘toxic mess’
In the early days it was seen as a place for ‘genuine public discourse’, but users have fled since Elon Musk took over. What went wrong?
Reporting in India ‘too difficult’ under Modi, says departing Australian journalist
Despite eventual visa backflip by authorities, ABC’s south-Asia correspondent Avani Dias left after being made to ‘feel so uncomfortable’
