Ed’s Blog

Yesterday The Sydney Morning Herald published an evocative photograph of the cricketer Phillip Hughes surrounded by his teammates, just after sustaining a serious head injury, on the front page.

I was waiting in the queue at a supermarket yesterday afternoon when I looked down at my phone and saw the news.

Almost 70% of employees in the legal profession are female, but don’t expect anything like that figure when it comes to the sector’s top management positions.

Did you hear about the ‘Next Big Thing’? It’s about all the great new things that technology can do – as heard by a line-up of (mostly) men.

A lot has been written and said about our Federal Cabinet.

Yesterday was a good day for Australian women in politics.

What’s on your Christmas wish list? It’s not sexy but what I really, really, want this year is a little bit of context.

Misogynists on social media are not just pseudo names.

It was the news flagged by The Australian on Thursday, splashed on The Sunday Telegraph’s front page and then confirmed by the Prime Minister himself in a hastily called press conference in Sydney yesterday.

The headline above seems rather obvious.

Mark Latham has been spending a bit of time of late writing about parenting issues.

Earlier this year I received a furious message from a friend.