Jane Gilmore

The Victorian Labor Government announced last week that it will be removing the Special Religious Instruction (SRI) classes from class time next year and replacing them with “new content on world histories, cultures, faith and ethics”.

Warning: This article is about Mark Latham and occasionally quotes him, so, unsurprisingly, it’s quite unedifying and includes swearing.

There’s a pretty obvious relationship between Tony Abbott’s polling numbers and amount of bonhomie exuded by Scot Morrison.

Tony Abbott’s speech at the Margaret Thatcher Lecture last night was pretty much just a more articulate version of the views he’s expressed consistently in more than 20 years of public life in Australia.

For reasons I still don’t quite understand I watched Tony Abbott on The Bolt Report yesterday.

Je-sus wept.

I read a report the other day, which claimed that domestic violence costs Australia $21.

Short answer hahahaNo.

So, here’s a thing.

Tony Abbott has confirmed that he will be contesting the seat of Warringah in the next election, and, if he wins, “continue to serve as a member of parliament”.

Emotional labour, first identified by sociologist Arlie Hochschild, in her book The Managed Heart is defined as emotion regulation that creates a publicly visible facial and bodily display within the workplace.

In slightly bizarre news, a new study claims that there is no gender pay gap in executive positions – as long as you control for all the factors that explain why there is a gender pay gap in executive positions.