Georgie Dent

A string of preselections in which sitting MPs may lose their seats has put the subject of women in the liberal party firmly in view.

Domestic violence is deadly. Twenty four Australian women have been killed violently in the first five months of 2018: research by the Counting Dead Women Australia researchers of Destroy The Joint indicates that at least two thirds of those were killed by a former or current partner.

In 2014 Cynda Miles shared a poem authored by her daughter Katrina Miles. To describe the poem as heartbreaking or gut-wrenching doesn’t begin to cover it.

Peter Miles is believed to have shot his wife, his daughter and four grandchildren before shooting himself. In most instances brutally murdering anyone categorically and permanently exempts an individual from being remembered as anything other than a murderer. ‘Good blokes’ don’t murder their families. Full stop.

The ads, cards and images that have been flooding television commercials, catalogues and social media feeds in the lead up to Mother’s Day, in which mums the world over are pampered, tell a single compelling story.

On Wednesday morning the Australian High Court ruled ACT Labor Senator Katy Gallagher ineligible to sit in parliament, rejecting her argument that she had taken reasonable steps to renounce her British citizenship.

The conviction and acquittal of Luke Lazarus, accused of raping Saxon Mullins in a Kings Cross alleyway in 2013, raises questions about consent. A 4Corners report I am that girl explores the subject.

The resignation of Tim Hammond, and his statement that he simply cannot work as a federal MP and be the father he wants to be to his three small children, has prompted a conversation about dads working part time.

Tim Hammond resigns from parliament immediately, triggering a by-election in Perth saying he cannot be the dad and husband he wants to be while an MP.

The resignation of AMP chair Catherine Brenner following revelations from the banking royal commission has prompted calls that the push for women on boards and diversity has caused the problems.

A group of women at Nike were fed up with the toxic culture and their revolt prompted Nike’s exodus of badly-behaved executives

“Quotas are just a door that we need to push open,” the Global Women’s Summit President told the delegates in Sydney on Friday. “To move women into leadership roles we need to be aggressive or we’ll wait forever.”