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Australians woke to news of the brutal murder of Little Red Riding Hood in schools today. After 2000 odd years of storytelling, the Victorian government has finally achieved what the wolf never could: The girl in the crimson coat is no more.
And she's not the only one. All fairytales promoting gender stereotypes are at risk.
Apparently - according to some media reports today - the state government will also be doing away with preschool toys that reinforce gender stereotypes.
Yet another research study published last week showed marriage was superior to cohabitation for providing family stability across the demographic spectrum.
The study, "The Cohabitation-Go-Around: Cohabitation and Family Instability Across the Globe," published by the Social Trends Institute and the Institute for Family Studies, found marriage provided significantly more stability for children than cohabiting, regardless of education level or geography.
Cohabiting parents split up twice as often as married parents, according to the data. And children who experienced their parents' breakups and then additional family transitions also reported more unhappiness, school disruptions, and teen pregnancies.
A recent response by the Government to a Parliamentary question on so-called 'wrongful birth' cases has revealed some startling findings. Although perhaps 'shocking' may be a more appropriate word.
Government figures show that the NHS has paid out more than £114 million since 1995 on 156 successful claims for damages from parents wanting compensation for the birth of a disabled child. Payments over the lifetime of the claim are calculated to reach just under £124 million. This does not include failed vasectomy or sterilisation claims.
Schools should move away from the distinctions of 'male' and 'female', according to transsexual guidance for Scottish teachers.
A new 30-page policy document endorses 'gender fluidity', described as a "flexible range of gender expression which may change over time and sometimes as frequently as on a daily basis".
The guidance claims that children can choose their gender, and says teachers should help a child to withhold their 'gender choices' from parents if necessary.
Osaka has become the first city in Japan to officially recognise a same-sex couple as foster parents.
Unlike many other developed nations, Japan has been accused of having conservative attitudes to LGBT issues.
But officials in the city of Osaka have approved the wishes of a man in his 30s and a man in his 40s to foster a teenage boy.
If Facebook insists on the rules of censorship, it should at the very least administer those rules in a fair way. Facebook, however, does not even pretend that it administers its censorship in any way that approximates fairness.
Posts critical of Chancellor Merkel's migrant policies, for example, can be categorized as "Islamophobia", and are often found to violate "Community Standards", while incitement to actual violence and the murder of Jews and Israelis by Palestinian Arabs is generally considered as conforming to Facebook's "Community Standards".
Dutch men are uploading pictures of themselves holding hands on to social media to stand against homophobia.
The trend was sparked by an alleged attack on two gay men on a street in the Netherlands on Sunday.
The images are being shared via the hashtags #handinhand and #allemannenhandinhand (all men hand in hand).
A terrorist incident in a jail is more likely now than at any time since a break-out by the Provisional IRA from a top-security prison in 1994, according to a former governor who has conducted a review into Islamic extremism.
Ian Acheson warns that radical Islam is "taking hold" in prisons and that officers lack the skills to deal with the threat.
He highlights how some Islamist offenders who have been convicted of less serious crimes and are in prison for short periods are in medium- security jails where staff do not have the skills or numbers to manage them.
The renaming of the male and female lavatories at the Barbican Centre as gender-neutral has brought complaints that women now have to queue even longer.
Signs outside one of the venue's cinema screens have been changed to say "gender-neutral with urinals" and "gender-neutral with cubicles".
Samira Ahmed, a broadcaster on BBC Radio 4's Front Row, launched a tirade at the Barbican on Twitter, saying: "Women's loo labelled 'gender neutral' so full of men who also have a 'urinal' to themselves. Totally ridiculous."
Fears of another "Trojan Horse" scandal have been reignited in Birmingham after an Islamic private school was found to have placed an advert for a male-only science teacher.
The advert which risks being in breach of the Equalities Act, has since been retracted - but the headmaster claims that the role must be occupied by a male teacher because of "religious observance reasons".
The decision has prompted calls for the Salafi Independent School, located in Small Heath, to be investigated, amid fears its stance promotes "gender-based discrimination" and threatens to undermine "British values".