Soapbox Paid parental leave especially critical in male-dominated fields Labor MP Amanda Rishworth has recently reutrned to work after having her first child and knows the importance of a supportive workplace.
Employers New program aims to change the language to get more women applying Job ads that use gendered language will soon be targeted in a new pilot program to increase diversity.
News & Views How penalty rate cuts affect women and therefore the economy Women and young Australians are set to be hardest hit by the Fair Work Commission decision to reduce Sunday penalty rates in varying amounts for workers in retail and hospitality with the exception of restaurants.
Local An ultimatum to the PM: George Christensen threatens to walk Nationals MP George Christensen isn’t happy and he’s not afraid for the Prime Minister to know about it.
Ed's Blog Agree to welfare cuts or forget funding for childcare & the NDIS? The government’s ultimatum that failed. Nick Xenophon blocks government omnibus savings. Pitting childcare reform against disability support services is “dumb policy & even dumber politics.”
Local NSW Premier Mike Baird resigns: “There is a strong personal cost that comes with public life” The NSW Premier Mike Baird will retire from parliament half-way through his government’s term.
Ed's Blog The marginalization of middle class men like Tony Abbott & Andrew Bolt A President-elect who is a billionaire, in part due to inheriting a vast estate from his father, cast as the champion of the working class: the anti-establishment.
Ed's Blog Who actually cares? Childcare is broken, we need a new system Just thinking about the amount it costs to send my eldest son to childcare churns my stomach.
Ed's Blog Why I wasn’t gobsmacked by David Leyonhjelm’s contribution to the childcare debate in Australia I was going to say that I was gobsmacked by Senator David Leyonhjelm’s summation of caring for children last week on Channel 10’s The Project as “wiping noses and stopping the kids from killing each other”.
Ed's Blog Barnaby Joyce tells those who can’t afford a house in Sydney and Melbourne to leave We love calling politicians “out of touch”.
Ed's Blog Malcolm Turnbull claims ‘not my job’ as other world leaders speak out German Chancellor Angela Merkel outlined the Geneva Convention over the phone to Donald Trump, in response to the US President’s executive order banning those from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States.
Ed's Blog The new agenda is ‘opportunity’ so let’s talk childcare and working mothers Yesterday I sat next to a woman on a train who was loudly telling a colleague why, “Sandra think she’s coming back but she’s never coming back.
