Ed's Blog A wedding, the Lodge, and good reasons to celebrate Anthony Albanese became the first prime minister to wed while in office when he tied the knot with Jodie Haydon.
Ed's Blog Men are taking more primary carers leave than ever. That’s a win Twenty per cent of primary/universal parental leave is now taken by men, up 3 per cent from the previous year.
Ed's Blog Pauline Hanson’s attention-seeking burqa stunt hurts, divides and wastes time What was it all for?
Ed's Blog 74 women killed in past year. Sussan Ley asks, ‘how do we maintain the rage’? The names of those killed were read by Opposition Leader Sussan Ley who pleaded with Australia to ‘maintain the rage’.
News & Views James Packer’s wild rant against Dan Andrews is an insult to all Australians harmed by gambling Note to James Packer: you’re not the victim. The families whose lives are destroyed by the gambling industry, are.
News & Views ‘May I meet you’? How a billionaire’s pickup line went viral Is it not enough for billionaires to have their billions and all access passes in corridors of power? Now they want to offer dating advice.
Ed's Blog Even more ways police failed Hannah Clarke and her children revealed In February 2020, following the horrific murder of Hannah Clark and her three children, a Queensland detective stood in front of the media and declared their job as investigators was to “keep a completely open mind”.
Politics Look away. Sussan Ley’s glass cliff is definitely starting to crack Sussan Ley’s leadership began with promise. Six months on, and with net zero targets abandoned, that hope has evaporated.
Ed's Blog The growing US gender pay gap should be a warning to Australia The growing gap isn’t Trump-related (we’ll likely see that next year). But it is related to workplace and care factors familiar to Australians
Ed's Blog Poland is abolishing income tax for families raising two or more kids. Will it help? Poland’s new zero-income tax approach hopes to encourage more people to have children. Not everyone’s convinced it will work.
Employers The age women earn more than men before a $1.5 million lifetime of inequity starts accumulating For a fleeting moment in their late teens, women earn 2 per cent more than men. Then the inequity begins. A few years later, it accelerates.
Ed's Blog A bill on stillbirth sees men enter the conversation to make unhinged abortion claims Priya’s Law aims to clarify that employers can’t cancel paid parental leave if a child is stillborn or dies. But these men have “concerns”