Soapbox If the government wants social cohesion, it must tackle racism for all Until recently, “social cohesion” was a term rarely uttered by Australian politicians. Then suddenly, it was everywhere.
News & Views Gough Whitlam believed John Kerr’s wife played a key role in The Dismissal. Did she? Anne Kerr’s story shows how personal lives and power mixed during the Dismissal, Australia’s biggest political crisis ever.
News & Views Women in the US are leaving the workplace in droves. Here’s how to stop it happening in Australia While our local statistics don’t yet mirror the exodus of women from the US workforce, the conditions are eerily familiar.
News & Views Boyfriend soft-launch? Try no launch. Why some women with illness keep love offline When Vogue asks whether having a boyfriend is embarrassing now, the better frame is this: who gets centred when we tell women’s stories?
News & Views What Zohran Mamdani’s win says about the kind of politics we’re missing Zohran Mamdani’s win in New York City shows the electorate wants conviction. The electorate is desperate for a change and not culture wars.
News & Views If a President has to smile through harassment, what hope do the rest of us have? If harassment can happen to a president in public, it reminds us how unsafe everyday spaces still are for women.
News & Views How women in leadership can build equity into the future of work Women leaders are using AI to create fairer, people-first workplaces that prioritise growth, equity, and meaningful progress.
News & Views The online misogyny that followed Jamie Melham’s historic Melbourne Cup win Jamie Melham deserves to be celebrated without caveats, without innuendo, without being reduced to a sexual object.
News & Views How sudden loss taught me that change is the hardest teacher of all The techniques I used to guide colleagues through change became the foundation for helping us both cope with grief, writes Melinda McCormack.
News & Views 10 years of impact: How Maddie Riewoldt’s vision is changing outcomes for families facing Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes Ten years after losing her daughter, Fiona Riewoldt shares how grief, love and purpose built a lasting legacy.
News & Views The confected outrage over Baby Priya’s Bill turned women’s pain into cruel political theatre Watching senior MPs twist the intent of Baby Priya’s Bill into a culture war about abortion, I felt that familiar hollow ache.
News & Views What the response to Laura Henshaw’s birth plan reveals about how we judge mothers Australian mothers gave birth via caesarian section in 2023 — and soon Kic co-founder Laura Henshaw will join their ranks.