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Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80, and everything feels just that little bit less today.

But take some inspiration and joy from everything she gave and did and her raw talent.

She wrote two of the greatest songs of all time on the same day: Jolene and I Will Always Love You.

She said no to Elvis to keep her publishing rights. She wrote the hit 9 to 5 for a film inspired by women fighting against pay discrimination and harassment.

She gave away millions of books to children, helped fund vaccines and always kept up her kindness and good humour, even in the face of her detractors.

Vale Dolly. We will always love you. Here’s our take on a life so very well lived.

Also today, Rita Nasr on the Richmond players and AFL’s CEO insisting there is no wider cultural problem across the league.

NSW and QLD have criminalised coercive control. Now, time for Victoria Meagan Prabhakar from Women's Community Shelters outlines the case for moving things along, fast.

New research explores just what keeps men out of the paid care sector – a sector that is heavily dominated by women, is underpaid and underappreciated and in desperate need of more workers.

ICYMI: With 400 jobs going from KPMG Australia, the price of misconduct is rarely paid by those who caused it.

Angela Priestley
Founding Editor & Publisher

The Key Quote

   
Women are often expected to balance competing demands from ourselves and society. Somehow we manage to carry the proverbial weight of the world with poise and grace.
   
Nell
Nell has a long history with the MCA, having first exhibited with the Museum in Primavera: Young Australian Artists in 1999. She is also represented in the MCA Collection with her large-scale wall installation Unlimited Radiance (2001), among other works.

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The Key Figure

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The record held by Dolly Parton for the most number one hits by a female country artist.  

The win

Australian artist Nell has unveiled her new sculpture, Holding Both.

A life-size bronze sculpture of a woman balancing the weight of two suspended glass ghosts across her shoulders, reflecting women’s physical and emotional capacity to hold two things at once.

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