We start with the win: the US midterms have delivered a historic blue wave, with women at the very crest of it. Record numbers of Democratic women in the House, Senate and governors' mansions; three Black women in the Senate together for the first time; Keisha Lance Bottoms as the first Black woman ever elected governor; and women breaking for the Democrats by around 18 points.
Angela also points you to her interview with Vote Mama — the US organisation getting mothers onto the ballot — already in our feed.
Then on Friday's breaking news: Russell Brand has been found guilty of rape and sexual assault at Southwark Crown Court, convicted of one count of rape and three of sexual assault, and acquitted of three other counts. He'll be sentenced on Monday. We discuss how the famous and the powerful are no longer afforded the immunity they once were, and that accountability, however slow, is reaching the people who assumed it never would.
And we close with something hopeful: our journalist Dinushi Dias sits down with Courtney Poole of PCYC NSW, who walked in as a lost young person and now runs employability programs across the state.
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