Kate Galloway

The Anglican church in the diocese of Sydney is changing the wording of its marriage service to provide, optionally for couples who choose it, for the wife to submit to the husband.

Feelings are still running high about Shock Jock Alan Jones’comment on Friday that women (ie the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, Sydney Mayor Clover Moore, former Victorian Police Commissioner Christine Nixon) are “destroying the joint”.

The passage overnight of the Workplace Gender Equality Act 2012 (Cth) has been lauded as a significant improvement on its predecessor, the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Act 1999.

It has been almost 20 years since the ground-breaking report of the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC), Equality Before the Law: Justice for Women.

Today’s media contains the sobering news that an asylum seeker known as Latifa has been detained separately from her week old infant Farus, who is suffering respiratory problems.

The last couple of weeks has seen the Lingerie Football League back in the news.