News & Views More proof Australia needs a radical new approach to childcare The expected cost savings to parents from the government’s signature $2.5 billion childcare package have virtually been eradicated in 18 months.
News & Views Tony Abbott wants middle-class women to have more children Tony Abbott says in western countries middle class women do not have enough kids. Women in the welfare system have lots of kids.
News & Views Bettina Arndt acknowledges she is not a psychologist or clinical psychologist A New Matilda investigation reveals Bettina Arndt is not a psychologist or a clinical psychologist, despite hundreds of representations to the contrary.
News & Views It’s not Australia Day. It’s Invasion Day & it’s no occasion to “celebrate” The 26th of January marks the beginning of the widespread oppression, dispossession and near-genocide of First Nations people.
News & Views A note to Federal Cabinet: Meet Matt Kean. He’s the environment minister in NSW ‘Matt Kean doesn’t know what he’s talking about, & most of the federal cabinet wouldn’t even know who Matt Kean was,’ according to Scott Morrison.
News & Views The death of a young Drag Queen protestor & the case for compassion On Monday it was reported that one of the student politicians involved in the Drag Queen protest in Brisbane, Wilson Gavin, died by suicide.
News & Views How is Meghan Markle the most loathed woman in the world? The fact Meghan Markle is even a contender for being the most loathed person in the world right now is as sad as it is revealing. But, loathed, she is.
News & Views The price of ignorance on climate change is one we must not accept Imagine if this is just the beginning? As horrific as that it is to consider we already know the price of ignorance is worse.
News & Views The good, the bad & the ugly of the year that was 2019 Between drought, bushfires, elections & politics Georgie Dent reflects on 2019 and sees causes for despair but identifies pockets of hope too.
News & Views Australia slips backwards in global Gender Gap rank. Again. Australia has slipped backwards again in the World Economic Forum’s latest Global Gender Gap Report to be ranked #44 out of 153 countries.
News & Views The Christmas lunch that made me want to get better at saying no The allure of maximising productivity at all times is tempting but there is more to work and life, than ‘productivity’ which is why I’m saying no more.
News & Views ‘Did you forget your pants?’ Kerri-Anne Kennerley asks colleague on live TV Kerri-Anne Kennerley asked 10 daily Senior Reporter Antoinette Latouff if she’d forgotten her pants live on air on Studio 10 on Friday.