News & Views We have enough electorates named after dead white men. It’s time we chose a woman instead The AEC is taking submissions on the name for a new federal electorate. Prominent women like Susan Ryan deserve consideration.
Life What do women fleeing domestic abuse need from the budget? Women experiencing domestic abuse are trapped not only by a violent partner, but by structural inequalities in our economy.
News & Views No shortage of sexist moments in 2020, but here’s who takes the cake Aside from the pandemic, there’s something else branded in our minds for eternity: some of the most mindblowingly sexist and archaic moments.
News & Views Each budget used to have a gender impact statement. We need it back, especially now For 30 years up until 2014, a statement of budget measures that disproportionately affect women was published at budget time.
News & Views Too late to put women at centre of recovery efforts? No. But so far world is failing The recovery needs women and offers an opportunity to reset for gender equality. So far, world’s not taking it.
News & Views Scott Morrison refuses to sign world leaders’ pledge on biodiversity & climate Other countries that have have not signed the Leaders’ Pledge for Nature, include China, the US, Brazil, and Russia.
News & Views Pelosi believes Trump’s tax evasions are a matter of ‘national security’ The New York Times have reported on a groundbreaking inquiry into US president Donald Trump’s decades of tax evasion and debt.
News & Views Who is Amy Barrett and what does her nomination mean for the US? US President Donald Trump has announced conservative Judge Amy Coney Barrett as the next Justice of the US Supreme Court.
News & Views Vale Susan Ryan, pioneer Labor feminist who showed big, difficult policy changes can, and should, be made Susan Ryan brought brains and spirit to the big fights and relished them. What’s more, she won them, writes Chris Wallace.
News & Views Not much relief for parents, but new childcare measures will rescue providers (again) Whether families actually save anything at all depends on where they live and what childcare provider they use, writes Kate Noble.
News & Views ‘A shag on a rock’: Pioneer for women in politics, Susan Ryan dies at 77 Susan Ryan, a formidable trailblazer for women in politics, and Australia’s first ever female, Minister for Women, has died aged 77.
News & Views Peter Dutton’s latest tirade reveals his true feelings about Australia’s young people Dutton’s attack on QLD Deputy Premier Steven Miles revealed how little he regards youth participation and leadership.