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‘I almost lost my will to live’: preference for sons is leaving young women in China exploited and abused

‘I almost lost my will to live’: preference for sons is leaving young women in China exploited and abused: aslysun/Shutterstock China has a gender crisis. The country has a huge surplus of men – around 722 million compared to 690 million women in 2022. This is largely because of sex-selective abortions linked to China’s one-child …

‘Weird preference swaps’ raise Greens ire ahead of Perth byelection

‘Weird preference swaps’ raise Greens ire ahead of Perth byelection: How-to-vote cards distributed by Labor and a candidate associated with the Western Australia Party ahead of Saturday's Perth byelection have raised the ire of the Greens, who have been locked out of preference flows in the seat. Labor candidate Patrick Gorman and Julie Matheson, a …