News & Views Gladys Berejiklian delays final vote to decriminalise abortion in NSW NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has made the decision to delay a vote in the upper house on a bill that would decriminalise abortion in the state.
Politics She put her hand during the high-profile Wentworth by-election, now Licia Heath wants more women to follow Licia Heath is the CEO of Women for Election Australia (WFEA) a not-for-profit, non-partisan organisation encouraging women to succeed in politics.
News & Views How nationalism is fuelling xenophobia and white supremacy A correlation between Trump’s divisive anti-immigrant rhetoric and a groundswell of white supremacist incidents is starting to emerge.
Leadership Meet 5 women leading on humanitarian work who share their average day and ideas for you to get involved Each year, a designated theme is selected to focus the public’s attention on humanitarians. In 2019, World Humanitarian Day is themed “Women Humanitarians.”
News & Views Jacinda Ardern steps up, so Alan Jones says Scott Morrison should ‘shove a sock down her throat’ Alan Jones has gone too far, once again. Asking if SCott MOrrison will be “fully biefed to shove a sock down her throat”.
News & Views Detained women’s rights activist Loujain al-Halthloul chooses to be tortured rather than lie The Saudi government arrested women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul a year ago for speaking out against the country’s laws.
News & Views The extraordinary courage of humanitarian lawyer Rabia Siddique Rabia Siddique shared her extraordinary story of abuse, discrimination & trauma. Her message is powerful: change requires a single person.
News & Views UK MP Caroline Lucas proposes an emergency all-female cabinet UK MP Caroline Lucas has written an open letter to a cross-party group calling for a cabinet of women to stop a ‘disastrous’ no-deal Brexit.
News & Views ‘An historic moment’: 119 years later, bill decriminalising abortion passes NSW lower house A bill to decriminalise abortion in NSW passed the lower house late last night, labelled an opportunity to right a “119 year wrong”.
Leadership Australia’s Family Law system is failing domestic violence survivors: Angela Lynch Angela Lynch is CEO of Women’s Legal Service QLD, where their increased capacity still can’t keep up with the demand for domestic violence related help.
News & Views Ocasio-Cortez slams viral image of young men ‘groping & choking’ her cardboard cut-out A group of young, white men in “Team Mitch” t-shirts gather around a cardboard cutout of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
News & Views Donald Trump: Video games, internet & mental illness – not guns – to blame for mass shootings According to President Trump, the cause of the mass shootings over the weekend in the U.S is not guns, but “the glorification of violence” and video games.