Politics

Liberal candidate Sachin Joshi says the gender pay gap exists because female doctors are “less active/interested in pursuing business skills”. He’s wrong.

More than half of Australians feel women’s issues are recurrently sidelined by the government, according to a new poll released this week. 

Four million Australians, at some period over the last 12 months, have experienced extreme hunger. One in five of these people are children.

Former IT executive, entrepreneur & former chair of Subcontractors WA, Louise Stewart is running as an independent in Julie Bishop’s former seat of Curtin.

Families earning up to $174,000 will receive cheaper childcare under a Labor government, under a $4billion suite of changes proposed by Bill Shorten.

Labor has promised to commit more than $660 million to reducing family violence in Australia.

If major parties are smart, they’ll be doing their best to appeal to young Australians in the final 4 weeks of this election campaign. 

On Tuesday, the 16-year-old Swedish school student fronted the British Parliament, calling the UK’s active support of fossil fuel expansion “beyond absurd”.

In the lead up to the 2019 federal election Dr Neela Janakiramanan examines health issues affecting women, starting with reproductive rights.

Women doing 72% of unpaid work has egregious outcomes that are totally gendered; Australian males lives ride on the exploitation of women’s work.

On the day Kerry Chikarovski lost the leadership of the NSW Liberal Party she was reminded of some crucial advice – ‘don’t let them see you cry’,

New research predicts Australia’s 46th parliament will be unrepresentative of the population when it comes to gender, cultural background and physical ability.