Cathy Alexander

There’s nine hours of Eurovision on Australian screens this weekend.

Anita Desai may be one of India’s best-known living writers, but she appears uncomfortable with the title.

There’s nine hours of Eurovision on Australian screens this weekend.

Anita Desai may be one of India’s best-known living writers, but she appears uncomfortable with the title.

If Julia Gillard was Julian Gillard, she’d get an easier time of it.

So you thought women had achieved equal opportunity, feminism was dead and you could drop your copy of The Female Eunuch in the Lifeline bin? Well you may need to think again.

Prime Minister-elect Tony Abbott has picked just one woman for his 19-member cabinet, to be sworn in tomorrow.

It’s become the hobby du jour in Leftie ghettoes to hate on Sophie Mirabella as she struggles to hold her seat.

“Nothing in her political life / became her like the leaving it” — adapted from Macbeth for Julia Gillard Now that Julia Gillard is no longer prime minister, she seems intent on demonstrating why she should have been an excellent one.

Long before all the fuss started about climate change, engineers were working on the problem by default — they’ve always sought to improve the efficiency of energy use to cut fuel costs.

It was a nightmare come true when more than 200 people went missing in mysterious circumstances recently.

Australian taxpayers face a $2 million bill from next month’s visit by British royals Will and Kate — so a tourism expert has suggested the pair hold barbecues and fly Tiger to cut costs.