Federal Budget is a devastating blow for women with disabilities  – Women With Disabilities Australia (WWDA) (from 12 May 2026)

Women With Disabilities Australia (WWDA) says tonight’s federal budget is a devastating blow for women, girls and gender-diverse people with disability, with deep NDIS cuts set to leave more women without essential support. 

“Women are already underrepresented on the NDIS, making up just 38% of participants, are exiting the Scheme at greater rates than men, and are twice as likely as women without disability to experience violence – including in disability settings, where they are supposed to be safe. These cuts exacerbate these issues and as a result we will see even more women with disabilities pushed beyond breaking point,” Ms Cusworth said.

Source: Federal Budget is a devastating blow for women with disabilities  – Women With Disabilities Australia (WWDA)

Case Law  – Globalarrk

This section of the GlobalARRK website shares information about court decisions (case law) made under the 1980 Hague Convention. It is intended to help you understand how courts generally approach these cases and the defences used.

It is very important to remember this is not legal advice and will be up to date at the time of publishing. We strongly recommend you seek legal advice as soon as possible if you are involved in 1980 Hague Convention legal proceedings. 

Source: Case Law  – Globalarrk

Woman and two children killed in Campbelltown, south-west Sydney, domestic violence attack | SMH

A man has been charged with murdering his partner and two children in an alleged domestic violence attack regarded as one of the most brutal and confronting ever encountered by senior NSW police.The man, 47, was taken into custody at the family’s Campbelltown home just before 8pm on Monday after calling Triple Zero to report an incident to police. His partner, 46, and the boys, aged four and 12, were found in various rooms suffering lacerations and other significant injuries. The Herald has chosen not to publish details of the trio’s injuries.

The man was not known to police and did not have a criminal history, Moroney said. The family was not known to police and had no prior engagement with the Department of Communities and Justice.

[Ed: So why is his name suppressed?]

Source: Woman and two children killed in Campbelltown, south-west Sydney, domestic violence attack

Tasmania to introduce new vicarious liability laws, child sex abuse survivor and advocate welcomes move – ABC News

In short:

The Tasmanian government will introduce new vicarious liability laws, which will make organisations liable for the actions of individuals that aren’t formally employed by them.

Victim survivor and advocate Steve Fisher says the legislation is a step forward, and will overcome the hurdle created by a 2024 High Court decision.

[I]n November 2024, a High Court decision, known as Bird v. DP, meant priests were not considered employees of churches and, therefore, some churches could not be sued for their actions.

The decision affected victim-survivors of child sexual abuse who already had civil cases before court, as well as those yet to bring cases.

On Saturday, Attorney General Guy Barnett said the state government would be introducing legislation to “fix that anomaly” and provide opportunity for victim survivors to take action with respect to child sexual abuse in the past.

Tasmanian victim-survivor, advocate and chief executive of Beyond Abuse, Steve Fisher, said the reform was an important move.

“It needed to happen so people who have been abused by institutions can finally get the compensation they deserve,” Mr Fisher said.

[Ed: Lets hope other states and territories follow their lead. This does not inspire confidence in the High Court.]

Source: Tasmania to introduce new vicarious liability laws, child sex abuse survivor and advocate welcomes move – ABC News

Tasmanian Anglican Church to consider ‘far-reaching’ options to fund increasing redress obligations – ABC News

In short:

Tasmania’s Anglican Church says its total estimated liability for historical child sexual abuse could climb to $80 million over the next 15 years.

The figure is more than double the church’s $36 million estimate from 2023.

What’s next?

Bishop Richard Condie says the church’s redress working group will meet to consider new options to find the additional funds needed, and that “everything is on the table”.

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The Tasmanian government on Saturday announced it was introducing new laws to make it easier for people to sue churches for abuse committed by priests and other religious leaders.

Dr Condie said he did not expect the new laws, which the government hopes to have in place by the end of the year, would affect the number of victim-survivors coming forward, but they could affect settlement amounts.

Source: Tasmanian Anglican Church to consider ‘far-reaching’ options to fund increasing redress obligations – ABC News

Texas Children’s Hospital must create country’s first ‘detransition clinic’ under settlement with Paxton | The Hill

Texas Children’s Hospital will create the nation’s first “detransition clinic,” fire five physicians and pay the state $10 million under an unusual settlement announced Friday by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R). 

The clinic would focus on providing medical care to patients who had undergone gender-affirming healthcare and work toward reversing its effects, Paxton said.  

For the first five years, all services provided through the clinic will be funded by Texas Children’s and be free of charge to patients. 

The settlement will also require the hospital to fire and permanently cut ties with five physicians who provided gender-affirming care for minors. 

The move follows an investigation that began in 2023 after Texas passed a law banning health providers from facilitating gender-affirming medical care for minors.  

Earlier this year, Paxton sued the hospital system — the largest children’s hospital in the United States — for allegedly violating the ban. The state accused the hospital of illegal “gender-transition” interventions, including using false diagnosis codes to bill Medicaid for illegal procedures.

Source: Texas Children’s Hospital settles gender care suit with AG Ken Paxton

AUS: Founder of Women-Only App Ordered to Pay Up to $120,000 to Trans-Identified Male For Recognizing Him as a Man | Genevieve Gluck

Entrepreneur and founder of a women’s-only application has been ordered to pay $20,000, with an additional maximum of $100,000 in court fees, to a trans-identified male after he was denied access to the platform.

Entrepreneur and founder of a women’s-only application has been ordered to pay $20,000, with an additional maximum of $100,000 in court fees, to a trans-identified male after he was denied access to the platform. CEO of Giggle for Girls Proprietary Limited, Sall Grover, was also found to have “discriminated” against Jason “Roxy” Tickle by recognizing him as a male in a selfie he submitted for on-boarding.

The ruling comes after more than four years of litigation, with Tickle having first filed a discrimination complaint through the Australian Human Rights Commission in December of 2021.

As previously reported by Reduxx, Tickle’s behavior has been called into question, with some critics suggesting that he has been behaving in an overtly sexual manner.

On his personal Instagram account, Tickle has also shared photos of his underwear, jokes about sex toys, and several cartoons drawn by Canadian transgender diaper fetishist Sophie Labelle. Recently, Tickle took to X to reveal that the youngest girl he competes with on the field hockey team is just 15 years old.

Senator Michaelia Cash, Leader of the Opposition in the Australian Senate, added her thoughts on the ruling by stating that “women and girls have a right to safe, private, and fair single-sex spaces.” Senator Cash played a central role in the evolution of the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (SDA), though her position has shifted over the years.

Initially, Cash was a vocal supporter of adding “gender identity” as a protected attribute. Her support was significant because it signaled bipartisan agreement on legally codified “gender identity” policies.

One particularly egregious result of the subjective sense of “gender identity” being codified into law is the transfer of violent male sex offenders into women’s prisons.

In March, Reduxx revealed that a transgender pedophile is attempting to sue the Australian state of Victoria over alleged “human rights violations” he has experienced while housed in a women’s prison. Autumn Tulip Harper, also known as Hilary Maloney, sentenced to just under 5 years in prison for the horrific sexual abuse of his own 5-year-old daughter.

Police determined that Harper had directly sexually abused the girl on at least 19 separate occasions in the course of just one month – yet despite this, Maloney was sent to a women’s prison, on the basis of claiming to identify as a woman, to serve his sentence.

Source: AUS: Founder of Women-Only App Ordered to Pay Up to $120,000 to Trans-Identified Male For Recognizing Him as a Man

Exclusive Brethren pet ban order sparks fears of global cull in sect, The Plymouth Brethren Christian Church | SMH

Secretive religious sect The Plymouth Brethren Christian Church has ordered its members to purge their homes of animals, leaving some Australian families heartbroken as they feel pressured to kill or abandon their pets.

Members inside the group, formerly known as Exclusive Brethren, say some animals, including a kitten, have already been put down since this month’s edict from the sect’s upper echelons, which has controversial ties to conservative politics and substantial financial holdings.

The directive, obtained by this masthead, that “every household should be freshly” cleansed of “dirty” animals follows a dog attack on a young relative of Brethren leader Bruce Hales last month, and has conjured memories of a widely reported purge of pets by the sect in the 1960s that horrified the public.

The Brethren instructs its 50,000 members in Australia and around the world to live separated from society. But it has drawn scrutiny for its involvement in recent elections, campaigning for the Liberal Party, and was raided by the Australian Tax Office in 2024.

The church tells adherents that loving animals distracts from devotion to God, but members say they view this latest command as “another test to make us prove our loyalty” in a sect where much of daily life, from money to family, is strictly controlled by leadership.

Ex-member Cheryl Bawtinheimer, who has accused a Brethren member of sexual abuse and is being sued by the church for copyright infringement over her podcast’s use of a logo, said she had been flooded with messages from people inside the church “panicking” about the new crackdown.

Bawtinheimer and more than a dozen sources connected to the church estimate that thousands of animals around the world have been killed over the decades because of the Brethren’s ban, and others mistreated or abandoned.

Source: Exclusive Brethren pet ban order sparks fears of global cull in sect, The Plymouth Brethren Christian Church

A man’s been convicted for spreading genital herpes. Here’s why that might backfire | The Conversation

In an Australian first, a Canberra man has been convicted for giving genital herpes to a sexual partner.

The man pleaded guilty to the charge of “recklessly inflicting grievous bodily harm”, which carries a maximum sentence of 13 years. He will be serving his 13-month sentence, handed down last week, under a community correction order.

The STI is relatively common. Up to one in eight sexually active Australians live with genital herpes.

There is no cure, meaning infection is lifelong.

The convicted man had been diagnosed with HSV-2 in 2020, but did not disclose this when a prospective sexual partner asked about his STI status in 2023. They then had sex on several occasions.

The woman acquired HSV-2, and the man later acknowledged he had the virus and didn’t tell her, saying he feared sexual rejection.

He also said he didn’t think she would contract HSV-2, in part because he had no sores or blisters at the time and so believed he was not contagious.

The man added that health information he had consulted suggested he was not legally required to disclose his diagnosis to sexual partners.

In Australian Capital Territory law, causing someone to acquire a “really serious” bodily disease can be treated as inflicting really serious bodily injury.

Prosecutions for inflicting a “grievous bodily disease”, as it is often called, have only been successful in Australia for transmission of HIV. These earlier prosecutions have been controversial.

While there have been previous convictions related to HSV-2 transmission in the United Kingdom, this is the first known prosecution in Australia.

There’s a 20% chance of transmitting HSV-2 each time you have sex if you don’t use precautions.

[C]riminalising transmission can create perverse incentives not to seek medical care and treatment. If a person genuinely doesn’t know their status, it can be more difficult to prove “reckless” transmission.

[Ed: There is a long history of men knowingly exposing their wives and girlfriends to STIs, including the recent high profile allegation about Bill Gates. This man got 13 months, but she got a life sentence. This article defends the unconscionable. He specifically lied to her. I hope more prosecutions follow.]

Source: A man’s been convicted for spreading genital herpes. Here’s why that might backfire

Tickle Vs Giggle Is No Laughing Matter – by Jennifer Bilek

The ruling in Tickle v. Giggle was entirely predictable, and no less outrageous or infuriating, because it was predictable. Anyone paying attention could see where this was headed. Still, watching it land, watching the law formally sever itself from material reality, is something else. My heart goes out to Sall Grover, and to those who understood this was never just about an app.

Giggle, launched in 2020, was a female-only space. Not controversial. Not extremist. A simple premise: women, adult human females, had a platform/space to gather among themselves. This basic boundary is now treated as unlawful.

If gender is constructed, and identity is self-defined, then sex itself becomes negotiable.

And once sex is negotiable, women cease to exist as a coherent class.

Now, this is not just theoretical anymore. It is law.

The failure, both strategic and intellectual, came when this premise went largely unchallenged. Instead of holding the line on reality, the fight was reframed as one of safety: women versus predatory men in female spaces. A real concern, but a losing argument. It ceded the foundation while arguing over symptoms.

The result is the grotesque spectacle we have now: a manufactured conflict between “women’s rights” and “trans rights,” as if they are both naturally occurring categories bumping up against each other, rather than the inevitable outcome of redefining sex out of existence.

Meanwhile, the deeper drivers of this shift remain conveniently obscured.

Australia, where the case of Tickle Vs Giggle was decided, is not just any jurisdiction. It is a global leader in assisted reproductive technology. A significant percentage of its children are conceived through IVF. The same society that is technologically disassembling reproduction is legally disassembling sex. Some Australian schools are teaching 7–10-year-olds about reproductive technologies, such as IVF and donor conception, typically within secondary school health curriculum. These topics are increasingly included to reflect diverse family structures (Hello, LGBTQI+ Inc.) and modern fertility challenges (same sex attraction and sterilizing the next generation for identity purposes creates a lot of fertility challenges), often under the banner of comprehensive sexuality and relationships education, removed from any market analysis.

You can call that coincidence if you like. I don’t, and the vast amount of capital that has gone into promoting dissociation from sexed reality as progressive, supports me.

What Tickle v. Giggle reveals is not compassion, not progress, not the expansion of rights, but the collapse of a category and the opening of markets from that splintering.

Women are now being told, in effect, that they are not a biological class with shared boundaries, but an identity open to anyone who claims it. That their spaces are not theirs to define. That their objections are discriminatory. That reality itself is negotiable.

This is why this case matters. Not because of Giggle. Not because of Tickle. But because it exposes the mechanism: redefine the category, institutionalize the redefinition, and then attack anyone who refuses to comply. It is a political and market assault on the foundation of reality itself, not just women’s rights.

Source: Tickle Vs Giggle Is No Laughing Matter – by Jennifer Bilek