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This week on Rage on the Rocks, we’re talking about Kmart’s $89 camera glasses — wearable tech that can take photos and record video while looking like an ordinary pair of specs.

There are genuine upsides: accessibility, hands-free documentation and affordable technology. But through the ragey woman lens, we’re asking what happens when cameras become cheaper, more discreet and harder to spot. Is this useful innovation, or just another way women and girls are expected to navigate being watched, filmed and turned into content without their knowledge?

We unpack privacy, image-based abuse and parenting in a camera-everywhere world — plus the bigger rage: tech companies racing to invent and sell products for profit, with too little thought for the consequences. Then it’s left to individuals, parents, schools and slow-moving legislation to pick up the tab for a largely unregulated experiment.

Kmart’s $89 glasses can record what you see. But what happens next? | SBS News

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In this episode we tackle the BIG ISSUES.

Is Taylor Swift fab and problematic at the same time?
Is the arrest of the Tate Brothers the best news of the week?
Is MamaMia's new nepo baby CEO appointment (Mia Freedman's son) a nothing to see here moment, or a disappointing sign of what's to come?

Pour yourself something cool, or warm depending on where you live, settle in your comfiest chair and join us.

Rage on.

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Content Warning: This episode of the pod talks about domestic and family violence and homicide. 1800 RESPECT is available 24/7 for support, with more information about support here: https://www.servicesaustralia.gov.au/family-and-domestic-violence

Last week, four women died in alleged domestic and family violence related homicide. Once again, it's been named a national crisis. How do we stop talking at cross purposes, and truly address the issue?

Referenced in the episode is OurWatch's resource 'How to prevent violence against women'.

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Strap in, because we're taking on the topic we've been working ourselves up to...people pleasing.

Let's be real. We're not pleasing anyone. Additionally, you can't rage with a mouth full of yes!

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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.