Politics

2016 was the year that everyday Australian women wielded real power online.

We see the violence and misery in our social media feeds.

As a first-time parent I distinctly recall walking around in a semi-permanent state of bewilderment.

I was going to say that I was gobsmacked by Senator David Leyonhjelm’s summation of caring for children last week on Channel 10’s The Project as “wiping noses and stopping the kids from killing each other”.

We love calling politicians “out of touch”.

When he stood as a candidate for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination? He’ll never get it, we thought.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel outlined the Geneva Convention over the phone to Donald Trump, in response to the US President’s executive order banning those from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States.

Yesterday I sat next to a woman on a train who was loudly telling a colleague why, “Sandra think she’s coming back but she’s never coming back.

It wasn’t all that long ago that the idea of the President of the United States instructing female employees to “dress like women” was laughably implausible.

You can’t have viable and sustainable peace and security if you don’t include woman, writes Joanna Hayter, CEO of the International Development Agency.

It’s been two and a half weeks since the election.

Dear Prime Minister, While getting ready for work recently, I listened with interest to your address to the White Ribbon Day Breakfast on television.