Health A letter to the prime minister from a survivor of abuse Dear Prime Minister, While getting ready for work recently, I listened with interest to your address to the White Ribbon Day Breakfast on television.
Employers Why Domestic Violence Leave is Not Just “Another Cost” “We just believe it’s another cost on our economy that will have an impact on our international competitiveness,” Finance Minister Mathias Cormann said in a Sky News interview earlier this week.
Life Remembering ‘hope’: How the Obamas influenced me from the other side of the world I was nineteen when Barack Obama was inaugurated as President of the United States.
Business My solution to solving the unpaid work problem I want to talk about how we could all benefit from getting a UBI.
Local What happens to Australia’s international responsibilities during the Trump Presidency? The global consequences of the Trump Presidency are already beginning: he’s set to rip up key international trade deals, he’s signed an executive order that will jeopardize women’s health worldwide, and he’s promised to push ahead with building that wall.
Local You call that a friendship? Turnbull needs to stick it to Trump The “close friendship” between the United States and Australia is looking pretty shaky, following an explosive phone exchange between President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
Local How Susan Lamb is bringing motherhood to politics Freshly minted Labor MP Susan Lamb gave an emotional maiden speech in Parliament yesterday, calling for same-sex marriage.
Business Business called to get involved as Victorian Govt launches gender equality strategy The Victorian government is calling on all members of the community, including businesses and startups, to step up to the mission of bringing gender equality to the state.
News & Views ‘Quotas work, let’s support countries that have them’: Natasha Stott Despoja on 3 years as Ambassador for Women and Girls When Natasha Stott Despoja was appointed Ambassador for Women and Girls in late 2013, a certain (now former) Financial Review columnist described the appointment as a ‘cynical piece of politics’, which would see the ‘leftie sweetheart touring the diplomatic cocktail circuit’.
Appointments Health Minister Sussan Ley to stand down pending investigation Sussan Ley is confident she will return to her ministerial duties, after agreeing to stand down from her health portfolio and the frontbench, pending an investigation into her use of taypayer paid entitlements.
News & Views An educator’s open letter to Senator Leyonhjelm on childcare The childcare system’s in need of deregulation because workers are demanding too much money for doing little more than “wiping noses and stopping the kids from killing each other”.
