News & Views Women lead just 2.8% of the world’s biggest companies Of the CEOs in the Fortune 500 companies, 33 are women – an all time record. That’s 6.6%. Of the 500 biggest global companies, it’s 2.8%.
Ed's Blog Theresa May calls for more parental leave for dads, where is Australia on it? In Theresa May’s final days as UK prime minister she’s been talking less about Brexit and more about reforming paid parental leave.
News & Views #IStandWithIlhan: Minnesotans Greet Omar With Love US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has arrived in her home state of Minnesota to a large crowd of supporters at the airport who cheered and shouted “welcome home Ilhan” as she greeted her loved ones.
News & Views Jacinda Ardern says Australia’s “corrosive” deportation policy needs to change New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says Australia’s strict deportation laws are having a “corrosive effect” on relations between the two countries.
News & Views ‘I completely & utterly disagree with him’: Jacinda Ardern condemns Trump’s racist remarks New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has condemned Trump’s remarks, commenting that she is proud New Zealand takes the opposite view.
News & Views Ursula von der Leyen elected to head European Commission The former German defence minister Ursula von der Leyen has been elected as the next EU Commission president, the first female to hold the position.
Uncategorised Four women, and the fight against Donald Trump’s racism “I am the least racist person you’ve ever met,” Trump has said in the past. But it appears the President of the US does not understand the term at all.
News & Views ‘You’re excluding people’: Megan Rapinoe’s powerful message to Donald Trump ‘You’re excluding people’: Megan Rapinoe to Donald Trump. CNN host Anderson Cooper asked Rapinoe to share a message to the President & she didn’t hesitate.
Politics Linda Burney maintains fight for constitutionally enshrined Indigenous voice Labor MP Linda Burney announced yesterday that bipartisanship should not be “a race to the bottom” in the case of an Indigenous voice in Parliament.
Life Will Twitter’s new rules on hateful speech also protect women? Twitter’s updated rules against hateful conduct, expands the policy to include ‘language that dehumanises others on the basis of religion.’
News & Views Archaic rape defence ‘loophole’ to come under review in Queensland A 110-year-old legal loophole in Queensland that allows accused rapists to argue that they had an honest yet mistaken belief that their rape victim had consented, will come under review.
Uncategorised Hong Kong Bill: Not really ‘dead’ as claimed by Carrie Lam This week, Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced the controversial Extradition Bill ‘dead’ after months of protests.
