Georgie Dent

Yesterday the Prime Minister Tony Abbott hinted that he might be open to negotiating his signature paid parental leave policy.

The 2013 working year is almost over and personally I couldn’t be happier.

In Australia, collectively, we place a fair amount of importance on our summer holidays.

It doesn’t take a person of particularly genteel sensibilities to be offended by Senator Cory Bernardi’s most recent contributions to the public discourse.

It is something of an occupational hazard of working on a publication like Women’s Agenda that I am, quite often, drawn into discussions about gender equality in social settings.

Last week Women’s Agenda published an article called ‘What no one tells you about motherhood’.

Just yesterday, after an afternoon of meetings, a few of us were chatting in the office and the subject of odd dreams came up.

Last week we published a thought-provoking article written by Ruby Hamad about the fact that, often, men’s voices are still heard more loudly on women’s issues than women themselves.

For many men and women, trying to arrange childcare for a child is the first time they will personally encounter any structural barrier to parents working.

Paid parental leave was the coalition’s signature policy for women during the election campaign and the government is considering bold measures to implement it.

If you live in New South Wales, or you have spent any time there in recent weeks, you would know that the issue of alcohol-fuelled violence has escalated to something of a state crisis.

Over the past 48 hours a media controversy dubbed ‘Strippergate’ has been unfolding between Channel 7 and Mia Freedman’s popular website Mamamia.