Politics

Yamatji and Noongar woman Dorinda Cox has become the first Aboriginal woman to represent Western Australia in the federal senate.

Tomorrow night, the Annual Ernies Awards will return in full force — marking yet another round of world-class sexism in Australia.  

Women fleeing domestic violence will now be eligible for a new, one-off payment of up to $5000, under a new two-year trial.

News of another baby for the Perrottet family is lovely, but we can’t help wondering how the Premier is coping? After all, it’s a BIG juggle.

He won’t be held hostage but Barnaby Joyce will be naming a price on leading the Nationals to agreeing to a new zero commitment.

Mexico City has confirmed a statue of an Indigenous woman will replace a one of Christopher Columbus located on the city’s main boulevard.

Journalist Maria Ressa, from the Philippines, has won the Nobel Peace Prize, recognised for her work defending press freedom.

NSW CHO, Kerry Chant was an unsettling no-show at yesterday’s COVID press conference with Dominic Perrottet unveiling his “new roadmap”.

Samoa’s Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata’afa has said Australia must do more to address the threat of climate change.

Some commentators seem to think the NSW ICAC makes findings of criminal guilt or innocence. Others have claimed the legislation creates an offence of corrupt conduct.

New NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet has six young kids, so we’ve been wondering here at Women’s Agenda just how he’ll juggle his home life alongside his new gig.

A social and economic conservative, Perrottet was elected to the NSW parliament in 2011. He is well-known to be a staunchly religious Catholic.