Ed’s Blog

Unless you’ve been stuck in an isolation chamber for the last 24 hours, you would have heard by now that Malcom Turnbull challenged Tony Abbott for the leadership of the liberal party last night and won.

Leadership spills, particularly ones involving a Prime Minister, are both inherently silly and deeply concerning.

A few months ago my then 15 year old daughter was unwell.

Prime Minister Turnbull has announced his new ministry, and while there was a bit more of a clearing out than many people expected, the one aspect being trumpeted across all the media is that the new Turnbull Ministry is a win for women.

Turnbull’s first interview with Leigh Sales on The 7:30 Report last night was very interesting.

There’s a lot you can say in 140 seconds.

There’s been some interesting feedback on some of the pieces we’ve published this week, particularly the ones about women in cabinet and the new funding announcement for domestic violence.

Miranda Devine’s Sunday column about domestic violence provoked outrage all over the internet.

Most women of my age have had some experience of sexism at work.

Another woman is brutally murdered and another headline gets it wrong 66 women (at the time of writing) have been murdered this year, police have just discovered remains in their search for another missing woman, and, thanks mainly to Destroy the Joint’s Counting Dead Women project, the fact that women are being killed at a rate of 2 a week is now firmly in the public consciousness.

Anti-abortion campaigner Troy Newman was in the custody of Border Force officers yesterday, after he refused to accept that his visa had been cancelled and arrived in Australia without one.

More than 1200 people signed an open letter to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull asking that the camps at Nauru and Manus Island be shut down.