The Sunday read: I face sexist abuse every day as a female MP – Full Story podcast

A truck-mounted billboard featuring AI-generated images of Victoria’s premier, Jactina Allan, which has been travelling around Melbourne for several weeks now, has attracted a lot of scrutiny. It shows Allan wearing a black pointed hat alongside the phrase ‘ditch the witch’.

Victorian upper house MP for the Animal Justice party Georgie Purcell, who faces sexist abuse every day as a female MP, argues misogyny isn’t a legitimate expression of political dissatisfaction