Women's Agenda Daily — Wednesday, 7 October 2026

Raising boys in the algorithmic age isn’t easy. We want to hear from the parents, carers, grandparents, teachers, coaches and mentors doing it — what are you worried about, what questions do you have, and importantly, what do you think is going right? Take our short national survey (in partnership with Movember, The Man Cave & The Foundation for Positive Masculinity) and help us understand what raising boys really looks like today. Take the survey here.

Angus Taylor, a man who’s given Australia approximately zilch in true policy vision, has this week unveiled his bold plan if he were to become leader: enforce the "biggest cut to immigration in this country's history".

He failed to address the true economic fallout of such a vision, nor the profound impact on feminised industries like aged care. Madeline Hislop shares more on what a policy like this would actually look like.

Also today, the fallout at Cornell University has escalated into protests, vandalism and political intervention from Donald Trump. But amid the noise, the woman at the centre of the case risks being forgotten. Freja Salt asks why this is so often the case?

In business, clinical nutritionist Gina Ulrich shares this firsthand account of raising four children and growing frustrated by the lack of genuinely nutritious, convenient baby food on supermarket shelves. So frustrated in fact, that she created Odi, a convenient baby food that’s genuinely nutrient dense.

Elsewhere, Dr Libby Sander examines an aspect of the workplace productivity debate that rarely gets a look in: highly capable workers, disproportionately women, staying in jobs beneath their abilities because they can’t risk losing the flexibility that makes work possible.

And ICYMI: Australia’s collective gasp over DV allegations against Sam Wood prove we need to reflect and take stock.

Lots more on site,

Tarla Lambert-Patel

Editor in Chief & Co-Founder

Wendy Wales

Wendy Wales is a retired science teacher and one of the women behind the community group win in the climate High Court case today.

Opposition leader Angus Taylor has unveiled plans to cut Australia’s temporary migration intake by about 650,000 people over four years in what he says would be the “biggest cuts to immigration in the history of this country”. 

High Court rules in favour of community group in Hunter Valley coal mine case

The High Court of Australia has ruled in favour of a Hunter Valley community group in the nation's first ever climate change case to reach Australia’s apex court. It found that planning authorities are legally required to consider the local climate impacts of a coal mine's downstream emissions before granting approval. Wendy Wales (pictured) is one of the women behind the group.