Ed's Blog Dealing with postpartum, pandemic anxiety made me a better mum My feelings of treading water in the deep end weren’t solely linked to the trials of breastfeeding and sleepless nights.
News & Views The expert, detailed analysis of the Budget’s impact on women is here. It’s not pretty The National Foundation of Australian Women has released its annual Gender Lens report and it confirms the Budget fails to deliver for women.
News & Views Just take off the ballet shoes and ‘rethink, reskill’ & ‘reboot’? No The above image telling Fatima to reboot is an actual ad that run fro, a government-sponsored campaign in the UK.
News & Views ‘If you don’t mind letting me finish, we can have a conversation’: Kamala Harris takes on Mike Pence It was Kamala Harris up against Mike Pence in the vice presidential debate today. Much more watchable than last week’s version.
News & Views That women are the losers in *this* history-making big-spending budget is shameful One third of one percent of the entire history-making, big spending budget goes to women. That’s 0.038% of around $500 billion.
News & Views Treasurer, a tiny $240 million for ‘women’s economic security’ is insulting Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said his government is determined to get women’s workplace participation back to pre-COVID highs.
News & Views If Frydenberg’s budget is ‘all about jobs’ it will deliver for women The Treasurer Josh Frydenberg says the budget is firmly focused on getting Australians back into work so it must deliver for Australian women.
Advice A ‘shit show’ in US. But in NZ, two women took the stage in very different election debate There were two election debates yesterday, and the differences couldn’t have been starker. Two men in the US. Two women in New Zealand.
News & Views Too late to put women at centre of recovery efforts? No. But so far world is failing The recovery needs women and offers an opportunity to reset for gender equality. So far, world’s not taking it.
News & Views Why investing in high quality early education & care is a silver bullet for women On 12th October Georgie Dent will host an event with Sam Mostyn, Lisa Annese & Tarla Lambert to discuss why ECEC is so important for women.
News & Views There’s hope! International leaders are rising to climate crisis, but Australia’s missed the memo Unsurprisingly, Australia’s missed the memo on internationally climate action, despite numerous announcements in recent months.
News & Views When the UN General Assembly finally heard from a woman, she shared need for “globalisation of compassion” President Zuzana Caputova of Slovakia was the 52nd speaker to take the virtual platform, one of just 11 woman speaking.
