Politics Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Dutton & the desperate state of affairs in Canberra Malcolm Turnbull announced a dramatic retreat on energy policy on Monday in a bid to stave off the threat to his leadership.
Soapbox We need to shift the power to support women in humanitarian crisis Just a tiny portion of response funding following a humanitarian crisis is allocated to programs considering the unique needs and rights of women.
News & Views Incoming Senator Mehreen Faruqi ready to take on racism & Fraser Anning Dr Mehreen Faruqi is set to replace Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon in the Senate today, becoming Australia’s first female Muslim senator.
News & Views Legal aid funding guarantee is necessary to ban the cross-examination of domestic violence survivors Without appropriate legal aid funding the Law Council of Australia says the proposed ban on cross examining DV survivors will not be realised.
News & Views Senator Anning’s noxious hate speech holds no water in Australia’s future In his maiden speech to Parliament, Senator Fraser Anning praised Australia’s former White Australia Policy and called for a ban on Muslim immigration.
News & Views No wrecking or undermining? Tony Abbott’s doing it all & there’s more at risk than policy Tony Abbott has described his own Party’s policy as “dodgy” and “bad”. So can he say he’s not “undermining” his own leader? We think not.
Politics The upside of Trump: Women break records in American mid-term nominations At least 183 female major party nominees will run in the US mid-term elections including the country’s first Muslim congresswoman, Rashida Tlaib.
Politics Note to Peter Dutton: Most of us support the “PC agenda” of Australian business Home Affairs Minister, Peter Dutton called for a crackdown on the apparent “PC agenda” of Australian businesses this week.
Local Sky News was ‘wrong’ to give Blair Cottrell airtime. Advertisers might show just how wrong it was Sky News has apologised for inviting Blair Cottrell on to the network last night to discuss his far-right opinions on immigration.
News & Views It’s official: Sarah Hanson-Young kicks of defamation proceedings against David Leyonhjelm Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young promised to sue if Senator David Leyonhjem didn’t apologise. Now she’s launched defamation proceedings.
News & Views Indra Nooyi commits PepsiCo to major recycling initiative. Is it enough? Indra Nooyi is well aware of the global rubbish problem, seeing it everywhere she travels. She has a plan to help.
News & Views Angela Williamson’s bravery in sending the abortion tweets that led to her sacking Former Cricket Australia employee, Angela Williamson has bravely spoken out about the tweets she sent lobbying abortion change.
