Politics

June Oscar has this week been named Australia’s new Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, becoming the first Indigenous woman appointed to the Australian Human Rights Commission.

Over the weekend Sweden’s deputy Prime Minister Isabella Lovin shared a photo to mark the signing of a Climate law which binds all future governments to net zero emissions by 2045, ‘for a safer and better future’.

The NSW Premier Mike Baird will retire from parliament half-way through his government’s term.

A President-elect who is a billionaire, in part due to inheriting a vast estate from his father, cast as the champion of the working class: the anti-establishment.

Just thinking about the amount it costs to send my eldest son to childcare churns my stomach.

“I’ve got to get better at being a dad, and a partner, being around a bit more, not being stressed and knackered when I am,” he said.

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.