Politics

Women’s Marches will move ahead this weekend with a core event held in Washington DC and sister marches taking place globally.

Peter Dutton leads the list of unwanted “hard right” politicians, followed by Tony Abbott, according to a poll by GetUp last week.

The government’s newly introduced temporary sponsored parent visa may allow migrant grandparents to care for children in Australia, but is there a cost?

Expect to hear much more from Dr Helen Haines over the next five months, as she takes on the major parties as an independent for the high profile seat of Indi. 

Labor has today proposed new measures to combat the gender pay gap in female-dominated industries, should it be elected to govern in 2019.

The World Economic Forum’s 2016 Global Gender Gap report placed women in Pakistan 143 out of 144 countries in health, education and economic participation.

UK Prime Minister Theresa May has survived a confidence vote on her leadership of the Conservative Party, hanging on 200 votes to 117 for an 83 count majority.

Five days unpaid domestic violence leave will soon be available for workers following legislation that passed through parliament on the final sitting day.

The last day of Parliament for the year somehow became one of the year’s most jaw-dropping, which says a lot considering the year in politics it has been.

Scott Morrison shared something that’s core to his view of Australia. “Remember,” he said. “My value is: we look after our mates.”

Anthony Albanese calls for 10 days of paid domestic violence leave, a position consistent with statements of many victims, frontline workers and those working with DV victims.

It’s the lowest number of women represented since the G20 started holding summits in 2008.