Dr Janice Duffy

Between 2011 and 2023, I was engaged in a largely self-represented court battle against Google over its refusal to remove defamatory content posted on a website that engaged in extortionate business practices. This destroyed my career and almost destroyed my health and my quality of life. I prevailed in three Supreme Court trials, but over the years, I was the recipient of abuse and even death threats. It almost broke me, but not quite!

In 2025, Antionette Lattouf, an Australian journalist, humanist and feminist, won a battle against the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). She has written a book, ‘Women Who Win’, which details women’s victories throughout history and into the present against seemingly insurmountable odds. I am honoured to be included. It is available from all major booksellers from 28 April 2026.

Journalist and human rights advocate Antoinette Lattouf takes us on a gripping journey through women who defied expectations and shattered cultural and legal barriers – usually while being cast aside and asked to calm down.

In these pages you’ll meet:

• Australia’s first female law graduate
• First Nations leaders who resisted colonisation
• Pioneers in sport and science
• The women behind the first sex discrimination class action
• Those fighting against climate destruction.

Some names you’ll recognise, others you’ll wish you’d known sooner.

Threaded throughout is Lattouf’s landmark victory – one woman, armed with ethical resolve, taking on Australia’s most powerful media institution. In doing so, she sparked a global conversation on power, prejudice and the price of integrity in the press.

Women Who Win is a fierce, unflinching celebration of grit, guts and glorious defiance. These women didn’t just show up – they came to rewrite the rules and never asked for permission.

Less history lesson, more history’s mic drop – and now the stage is yours.

Armed with the legacies of those who came before us, what fight will you take on? What victories are within your reach today?