A woman facing a trial for stealing period products? Really?

Police are prosecuting a 31-year-old woman from Geraldton for stealing menstrual products from a store earlier this year. This week, Olivia Cleal spoke with Rochelle Courtenay from Share The Dignity about the reality of period poverty in Australia. Olivia shares more with Tarla Lambert in today’s episode.

Also today, we go through some findings from WGEA on the gender pay gap in the Commonwealth public sector, and how it compares with Australia’s private sector. Plus: Peter Dutton has unveiled his nuclear energy plan. Will it convince voters?

Stories discussed this week:

• Jacinda Ardern heads new empathy and kindness program for global political leaders
• ‘She wasn’t meant to live’: Swimmer Alexa Leary has qualified for the Paralympics
• Coalition talks ‘hope’ while outlining plan for building seven nuclear reactors
• The public sector has a smaller gender pay pap than the private sector, but women are still earning much less
• ‘Disgusting’: Woman in Geraldton faces trial for stealing $10 packet of period products

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Producers: Olivia Cleal and Allison Ho

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