Politics Tony Abbott’s return as party president exposes the Liberal Party’s major identity crisis Tony Abbott declared that multiculturalism had “failed” Australia, sounding more like Pauline Hanson than Pauline Hanson herself.
News & Views Poolside with a billionaire, podcast with the far-right: A week in the life for Pauline Hanson Pauline Hanson has had a busy winter parliamentary break. She’s jetted off to Europe and has been spotted enjoying some poolside time with Gina Rinehart.
News & Views Can the Liberal Party rebuild and win back women voters before they move on for good? An internal Liberal Party commission has released a discussion paper looking at options to renew the party’s base and gain electoral support.
News & Views Sextortion is rising and eSafety says Big Tech isn’t doing enough to prevent it Australians made just over 2000 complaints about sexual extortion over six months, with young men aged 18 to 24 the most affected.
News & Views The Liberal Party helped build multicultural Australia. Now it won’t say the word. Andrew Hastie believes there is a “third way” for Australia, a path somewhere between Pauline Hanson’s monoculturalism and multiculturalism.
Soapbox I lived the male prison nightmare that NSW has just made policy A prison officer looked at me, looked at the men’s prison I had been sent to, and eventually recognised the obvious mistake. The NSW Government has now created a system that risks turning that mistake into policy.
News & Views Another woman has been killed. Australia’s femicide toll has reached 36 this year A man has been arrested after a 39-year-old woman was fatally stabbed at a home in Vermont in Victoria last night.
News & Views Independent review to investigate child safety response after four-year-old’s alleged murder on Central Coast The NSW government has launched an independent review into the case of a four-year-old boy who was allegedly murdered by his mother.
News & Views Victoria bans the misuse of NDAs in workplace sexual harassment cases putting victim survivors back in control Victoria’s new laws put victim-survivors first, giving them greater choice over when and how they share their stories
Ed's Blog Australia just hit the six-month paid parental leave milestone. We’re not going back Australia’s paid parental leave system is far from perfect and has considerable room for improvement. But it’s taken a lot to get to this point.
News & Views The glaring hypocrisy behind the Karl Stefanovic ‘free speech’ outrage Free speech in Australia has always had limits. It is a legal nuance that has apparently not yet reached the One Nation Facebook page.
News & Views Funding increase for core frontline services welcomed in NSW The NSW Government has promised a 50% increase in funding for six frontline specialist domestic and family violence programs.