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2 weeks ago | 
independentaustralia.net | Zayda Dollie |Justin Baldoni
When it comes to public opinion, women face harsher trials than men — long before any verdict is reached, writes Zayda Dollie. *CONTENT WARNING: This article discusses rape and sexual assaultTHE FEUD BETWEEN co-lead and director Justin Baldoni and Hollywood actress Blake Lively on It Ends With Us has culminated in competing lawsuits. It is a feud being fought on the internet in routinised he said/she said cycles with no end in sight.
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4 weeks ago | 
independentaustralia.net | Zayda Dollie
The nation's shifting core group has outgrown, outnumbered and outclassed the politicians still refusing to represent it, writes Zayda Dollie. THE REAL VICTORY to come out of the 2025 Federal Election is the record number of women who will make up the nation’s new parliament. It's a sign of the times, but it also marks a shifting voter base that has no qualms in swiping right on representatives for as long as it takes to find the right one.
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1 month ago | 
independentaustralia.net | Zayda Dollie
A government that favours only one group will marginalise everyone else – men included, writes Zayda Dollie. INVESTMENT CONSULTANT Steve Moriarty spoke on his podcast recently about the men globalisation left behind.
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1 month ago | 
independentaustralia.net | Zayda Dollie
The Liberal Party is like a members-only boys' club — except the boys aren't there when members need them the most, writes Zayda Dollie. LIVE BY the Bro Code, die by the Bro Code. If you are drawn to the warm embrace of a boys' club, then you’d better hope for its protection when things heat up. The Liberal Party has just ousted one of its own candidates for making disparaging comments about women, which resurfaced last week ahead of the May Federal Election.
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2 months ago | 
independentaustralia.net | Zayda Dollie
New Netflix drama ‘Adolescence’ raises questions about the online influence of figures like Andrew Tate, who weaponise misogyny and normalise violence. Zayda Dollie reports. * CONTENT WARNING: This article discusses rape, violence and murderA NEW NETFLIX SHOW, Adolescence, which centres around the interrogation of a 13-year-old boy accused of killing his schoolmate, has hit a collective nerve.
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2 months ago | 
independentaustralia.net | Zayda Dollie
The latest season of Married at First Sight has stirred controversy with accusations of the show enabling and encouraging domestic violence, writes Zayda Dollie.
IT SEEMED LIKE the Nine Network had audiences all figured out when Married At First Sight (MAFS) broke Australian streaming records just last month.
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Feb 28, 2025 | 
independentaustralia.net | Zayda Dollie
Misogynistic comments made by radio host Marty Sheargold and others are symptomatic of a lag between legacy media and an increasingly switched-on audience threatening to leave it behind. Zayda Dollie reports.
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Feb 3, 2025 | 
independentaustralia.net | Zayda Dollie
The group of men arrested for a far-right parade on Australia Day are nothing more than a watered-down version of real Nazis with no direction, writes Zayda Dollie.
THE 16 MEN who were arrested after marching through Adelaide CBD on Australia Day call themselves White supremacists. What they really suffer from is oppression envy — they want the story of struggle without the achievement. It’s a symptom of a society that will only turn its head to look when something is wrong.
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Jan 31, 2025 | 
independentaustralia.net | Zayda Dollie
What does it mean to be Australian? Are we still living in the luckiest country? And where did we go wrong with Raygun? Zayda Dollie has all the answers.
I’D LIKE TO preface this by saying my toxic traits are pattern recognition and using my words.
It’s an illness. Idioms, for example, are my bread and butter.
When I first moved to South Australia a little over two years ago, I had to get used to how people here talk. There were a few terms of expression I would hear fairly frequently.
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Jul 14, 2024 | 
theroar.com.au | Nick Wasiliev |Peter H. Darrow |Zayda Dollie
The New Zealand Black Ferns have put on a emphatic display against the Wallaroos, running out 0-62 winners in front of over 5,000 fans at Ballymore. Despite two key chances in both halves, Jo Yapp’s side were unable to get to get on the board, with the Black Ferns physicality and speed proving too overwhelming in broken play. The result was capped off by Katelyn Vahaakolo scoring four of the ten tries for the visitors, giving the large Kiwi contingent at Ballymore plenty to cheer about.
