🌞 The history-making Oscars

The highlight of my week?

Watching online friendships turn into real ones. On Thursday morning, we hosted our first 'TDA IRL' event, and honestly, it did not disappoint. Turns out the connections you make in your inbox translate pretty beautifully to real life.

The Matildas may have finished runners-up at the Women's Asian Cup, but there's plenty to celebrate. Making the final is no small feat (they last did it back in 2018) and this year's tournament broke attendance records with more than 300,000 tickets sold.

Oh, and the Tillies have already qualified for the 2027 FIFA Women's World Cup, becoming the first nation outside of host country Brazil to do so.

The future's looking bright. Up the Tillies!

The Academy Awards, aka the Oscars, are cinema’s night of nights. And this year, they delivered.

Autumn Durald Arkapaw made history early, becoming the first woman ever to win Best Cinematography for Sinners. She is also the first Black winner in the category, and the first woman of colour to be nominated.

In her speech, Arkapaw asked all the women in the room to stand, saying she wouldn’t be there without them. “I have felt so much love from all the women on this whole campaign,” she said. Director Ryan Coogler even ran to get her son so he could watch his mum’s moment.

And then there was K-pop Demon Hunters, which made history as the first Korean film to win Best Animated Feature.

In her acceptance speech, co-writer and director Maggie Kang reflected on the moment: “For those of you who look like me, I’m so sorry it took us so long to see us in a movie like this. But it is here. And that means the next generations don’t have to go longing.”

The film’s hit song Golden also won Best Song, becoming the first K-pop track to do so. Vocalist EJAE summed it up: “Growing up, people made fun of me for liking K-pop. Now everyone’s singing our song, including the Korean lyrics. I’m so proud.”

A university in Hawai’i has removed more than 84,000 kilos of waste from the North Pacific Ocean.

Hawaiʻi Pacific University’s “Bounty Project” pays commercial fishers to recover nets, lines, and floats, pulling the gear from the water before it can damage reefs or threaten marine wildlife. In just over three years, the project has logged more than 690 recovery events.

Much of the recovered netting has been recycled into roads or converted into electricity, while some has been set aside for further research.

People enjoy the blossom in St James's Park on 18 March in London. Some parts of the UK recorded temperatures beyond 20 degrees that day, making it the country's warmest day of the year.

The NSW Government is investing more than $4 million in nine Aboriginal researchers’ public health research projects. 

The projects will focus on improving heart health for Aboriginal communities in NSW. 

Cardiovascular disease disproportionately affects Aboriginal people: rates are 2.4x higher than those of non-Indigenous Australians, and the disease develops earlier on average.

Recipient Belinda Field and her team at Eleanor Duncan Aboriginal Services (EDAS) will use the grant to address “disproportionately high rates” of peripheral artery disease in Aboriginal people through exercise and education. 

Field, a Wiradjuri woman and EDAS CEO, said: “It will assist to drive Aboriginal cultural distinctiveness into research by embedding our ways of deep listening and two-way knowledge sharing to achieve greater outcomes”.  

Another recipient, Cassia Lindsay, will develop her research project ‘Elders in Wellness’, which will focus on a “culturally grounded healthy ageing journey.”

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International icon Meryl Streep has made a “seven-figure” donation to the U.S. National Women’s History Museum. 

The museum announced that the ‘Mamma Mia’ and ‘The Iron Lady’ star had made a “significant… gift to advance the future of women’s history.” 

Streep said: “History is shaped not by those who make it, but by those who ensure it is remembered. The [museum] has long been a catalyst for bringing forward the stories that deepen our understanding of who we are.” 

The museum has confirmed her donation will create engaging “storytelling experiences” and digital initiatives. It will also establish an award in her name to celebrate a women’s history educator. 

‘Pints & Ponytails’ is a group of dads getting together over pints to learn how to do their daughters’ hair. 

Led by the fatherhood podcast ‘The Secret Life of Dads,’ the group connects over being girl dads, and went viral earlier this month.

By the end of the night, the dads have learnt to do the most important hairstyle of all: the Elsa braid.

The positive masculinity the world needs - more of this please! 

The Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) has reintroduced rhinos to a national park for the first time in 43 years.

Two Southern White rhinos arrived last week, and will be followed by six more rhinos. 

UWA Executive Director Dr. James Musinguzi said the “moment marks a new beginning… the translocation of these rhinos is the first step in restoring a species that once formed part of the park’s natural heritage.” 

Multiple African trusts and foundations supported the introduction.