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Powerful men hurt or humiliate women, and somehow there’s always another tour, another contract, another “cheeky larrikin” rebrand waiting for them. This week on Rage on the Rocks, Sarah and Lauren run a second‑chance audit on the Boys’ club loyalty program – who gets the comebacks, who pays the price, and who keeps renewing their membership.

We start with Jimmy Fallon’s cosy Tonight Show interview with Conor McGregor, recorded after an Irish civil jury found McGregor liable for sexually assaulting Nikita Hand and ordered him to pay damages – a verdict later upheld. Fallon’s laughs‑and‑family chat never mentions Nikita or the case, and that’s our entry point into a much bigger pattern: politicians whose abuse is treated as “colour”, shock jocks rewarded for vulgar misogyny, presidents and power brokers whose sexual misconduct and friendships with men like Jeffrey Epstein don’t stop the comeback train.

If this episode brings things up for you, you don’t have to sit with it alone. In Australia you can call 1800RESPECT (1800 737 732), the national 24/7 counselling service for anyone impacted by sexual assault, domestic or family violence, or supporting someone who is. You can also call 1800 FULL STOP (1800 3 85 578), run by Full Stop Australia, for free, confidential trauma counselling nationwide. If you’re in immediate danger, call 000.

Notes

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-23/conor-mcgregor-sexual-assault-2018-dublin-hotel/104638650

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd6n04xjj1qo

https://culturacolectiva.com/en/history/jimmy-fallon-conor-mcgregor-tonight-show-nikita-hand-backlash/

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-10/four-corners-investigation-christian-porter-sexism-inappropriate/12862910

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-56560666

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-05-26/troy-buswell-ex-wife-feared-going-public-with-abuse-claims/100165914

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-28/decade-of-wa-sex-scandals-exposed-strip-clubs-troy-buswell/11827540

https://theconversation.com/for-27-years-the-kyle-and-jackie-o-show-indulged-australias-most-vulgar-sexist-impulses-277510

https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/impeachment/clinton-impeachment-and-its-fallout

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/monica-lewinsky-calls-out-bill-clintons-handling-of-their-scandal-says-i-was-thrown-under-the-bus-lost-my-future/articleshow/118600069.cms

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-13/what-we-know-about-donald-trump-relationship-with-epstein/106004310

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Oh we have A LOT to get through today.

We're kicking off with quick fire news, and honestly the news cycle has been WILD. We're talking about the SA abortion bill that just got voted down, Pauline Hanson rocking up to the National Press Club after three decades to call the gender pay gap "smoke and mirrors" (spoiler: it is absolutely not), and the absolutely jaw-dropping cervical cancer data that shows what happens when we actually invest in women's health. Hint: we eliminate a cancer. Like, the whole cancer.

Then we're going deep on gender reveals. Where did they come from, why are they everywhere, and why are they - at best - unnecessary and at worst genuinely harmful? The woman who invented them in 2008 has publicly said she regrets it. We get into it.

We've also got our Glimmers because we all need something to hold onto, and we're closing out with a Happy Pride to the community. You are seen, you are loved, get in here.

Oh...and somewhere in there we break down the New York Times piece by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan about Trump's team having what can only be described as a full meltdown in the Situation Room over the Epstein files. JD Vance wanted to put Tucker Carlson in a room with Ghislaine Maxwell. This is not a drill.

Grab your drink. Let's go.

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Today we’re doing something a little different: a rapid‑fire tour through the week in women’s news, fuelled by tarot pulls, gin and soda, and a healthy dose of feminist rage.

This week: Barnaby’s latest abortion “hot take,” Bonnie Blue and her golden baby shower, the appalling treatment of women in politics (featuring yet another tired “ditch the witch” moment), and Epstein’s personal secretary doing her best “I know nothing” routine — all while military exercises roar overhead. It’s a mix of laughs, rage and shout‑outs to the women holding it together in a country that keeps asking them to swallow just one more thing. Rage on.

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Female friendship is the love story nobody really nails. This isn't the "queens supporting queens" version (as much as we love it), it's just the real one.

Adult friendships, the slow fades that can hurt worse than breakups, the friend you've outgrown but can't bring yourself to move away from. The group chat dynamics that are basically a full-time job (unpaid of course).

Plus the unspoken truth: these women are the most consistent, alive, mutual relationships in our lives. They're the love story...and we should probably say that more.

And a closing glimmer on the new perimenopause and menopause campaign, because the women who walk you through the third act deserve their flowers.

Pour something strong, open your group chat, and remember it's made you want to lob your phone into the ocean at least once. Welcome to Rage on the Rocks.

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This week on Rage on the Rocks, Sarah and Lauren tackle nervous system regulation — yes, it's important, but has it become the latest wellness-speak for "fix yourself and stay pleasant"?

We acknowledge the science is real and regulation matters, but we're calling out how it's been co-opted into another way to tell women their feelings are too much, their anger is "dysregulation," and their perfectly reasonable responses to unreasonable circumstances need fixing.

We unpack the commercialization of regulation (magnesium, acupressure mats, ice baths — we've got them all), the gendered expectation for women to stay calm while men's anger is called "leadership," and why sometimes dysregulation is the most appropriate response to a genuinely fucked situation.

From the danger of pathologizing rage to the difference between actual self-care and performative regulation that keeps you just functional enough to keep producing — this one gets deep, gets real, and yes, we still love our Shakti mats.

Key takeaway: Regulate to act, not to disappear.

Warning: Contains strong language, feminist rage, and permission to feel your feelings.

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This week on Rage on the Rocks, we're doing something a little different — no deep dive, no documentary dissection, just pure, unfiltered catharsis. Sarah and Lauren count down their top 10 things that shit them, from the petty to the political.

Expect plane etiquette violations, questionable cocktail service, corporate jargon that makes us want to flip tables, and some deeper dives into decision fatigue and the invisible mental load women carry every damn day.

Recorded at the Darwin Ski Club over Brookvale ginger beers on a beautiful dry season afternoon, this episode is part rant, part therapy, and entirely relatable. Come for the rage, stay for the solidarity.

Warning: Contains strong language, feminist commentary, and possibly too much truth about toilet paper psychology.

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This week’s episode, “We Just Hire on Merit (And Other Fairytales)”, starts with the backlash to Lieutenant General Susan Coyle, the first woman ever appointed Chief of Army in Australia. With nearly 40 years’ service and multiple senior command roles, Coyle is objectively qualified – yet the moment her appointment was announced, social media filled with claims she only got the job “because she’s a woman” and that “DEI has gone too far.”

From there, we unpack what meritocracy actually means, and how “we just hire on merit” is often used to question women’s suitability for leadership while leaving decades of male‑only appointments completely unexamined. We touch on the broader DEI backlash in places like the USA – where diversity programs are being dismantled in universities and public institutions – and how this affects not just women, but also people of colour, disabled and neurodivergent people who were only just starting to see doors open.

Along the way we talk about Sussan Ley being wheeled out as a solution to a party’s “women problem” and then moved aside, the outrage when a school’s student leadership team happened to be all girls, and the persistent narrative that any gain for a marginalised group must mean standards have been lowered. We finish by asking who gets to define “merit” in the first place – and what we all gain when leadership actually reflects the communities it serves

Links:

Article on Lieutenant General Susan Coyle - the first woman to head the Australian Army

Article on the school that chose all girls as school captains

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Content warning: This episode discusses sexual assault, rape, child sexual exploitation and systemic abuse. Please take care while listening.

In this episode of Rage on the Rocks, we’re looking straight at power – who has it, who’s protected, and who pays the price. We rage about how systems continue to shield men who abuse and exploit women: from the global “online rape academy” ecosystem teaching men how to drug and assault women, to the French Pelicot case where one woman had to drag 51 men through court to be believed, to the Epstein saga where only Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell have been jailed while the powerful men alleged to have used that network remain untouched.

We also unpack the “not all men” phenomenon – how a technically true statement so often recentres men’s discomfort and derails conversations about women’s safety, instead of asking what collective responsibility from good men should actually look like. This one is about naming the patterns that make us rage, and refusing to look away.

If this episode brings things up for you and you are in Australia, you can contact 1800RESPECT (1800 737 732) or visit 1800respect.org.au for 24/7 confidential counselling and support.

Links:
CNN “online rape academy” investigation

Pelicot case coverage

Further details on Pelicot trial

Epstein background and timeline