Politics

Senator Derryn Hinch believes that owning your own home is not a ‘right’ in Australia, but rather a ‘dream’ that everybody wants to achieve.

I’m not going to thank men for attending women’s conferences and events.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was interviewed on stage at the Women in the World Summit late last week.

How do you deal with a devastating defeat? Especially one that’s as public as it could possibly be? Well if you’re Hillary Clinton, you retreat to the woods – for a period.

In case you haven’t heard, there’s a bit of a problem for women going on in the White House.

When it comes to discussing the global threat of climate change, I had to ask one of the world’s most influential women on the subject if she’s optimistic about the future.

The Senate has rejected changes to section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act that would have seen it weakened through replacing the words “offend, insult or humiliate” with “harass” and “intimidate”.

Penalty rates held out a promise that if we worked hard just maybe we might escape the poverty trap which is why cutting penalty rates hurts.

The childcare reforms passed by the Senate last week – the biggest in a decade – will reward some women and their children and punish others.

So after three years, three Senate Inquiries, one Productivity Commission Inquiry and two elections the Government finally managed to get its childcare (“Jobs for Families”) package through the Senate last week.

Senator Jacqie Lambie broke down in Parliament Wednesday night while sharing her personal experiences living off a disability support pension for seven years, while raising two kids as a single mother.

Today Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull visited another childcare centre for yet another childcare announcement.