Georgie Dent

Prime Minister Tony Abbott is today expected to announce he will walk away from his signature Paid Parental Leave policy.

I wasn’t at the Press Club today which meant I didn’t get to ask the Prime Minister Tony Abbott any questions.

Yesterday author, broadcaster, columnist and speaker Clementine Ford posed a question on Twitter that spawned hundreds and hundreds of questions in reply.

In the days since I spoke with Kate Bolick about her famous magazine essay All The Single Ladies, whether by coincidence or not, I have been reminded how deeply attached we are to women as wives and mothers first and foremost.

The shadow ministry, announced by the newly elected Opposition Leader Bill Shorten yesterday, has more than twice as many women as the government’s frontbench.

It feels like a long time ago now, thanks in part to a rather eventful week in politics, but it’s only been eight days since the Queensland election.

Soon I will broach the subject of encouraging you to consider setting up your friends.

In 2003 Victorian Labor MP Kirstie Marshall was asked to leave State Parliament because she was breastfeeding her 11-day-old daughter.

Last night just before I went to bed I opened Facebook.

Late last year I arrived at an event where I bumped into journalist and broadcasterTracey Spicer.

“This is a blatantly partisan politicised exercise and the Human Rights Commission ought to be ashamed of itself.

This image stopped me in my tracks.