Politics Julia Gillard’s portrait unveiled to stand out in line of men It’s taken five years, but Australia’s first female prime minister Julia Gillard has had her official portrait unveiled in parliament today.
News & Views Leyonhjelm asks if we need an ‘Office for Men’. Larissa Waters responds: ‘It’s called Parliament’ It’s called parliament, Senator Larissa Waters responded in Senate Estimates, as Leyonhjelm persisted with a line of questioning about creating an ‘Office for Men’.
Politics Party leaders deliver national apology to victims of child sexual assault Scott Morrison and Bill Shorten delivered a long-awaited national apology to victims of child sexual assault following Royal Commission findings in 2017.
News & Views Jane Caro considering running for Tony Abbott’s seat following Wentworth swing Author, media commentator and advertising guru Jane Caro made it clear she was considering her options to run for the seat of Warringah.
News & Views ‘A return to decency, integrity and humanity’: Kerryn Phelps wins Wentworth Independent Kerryn Phelps has claimed Malcolm Turnbull’s former seat of Wentworth, ending the Coalition Government’s one-seat majority in Canberra.
News & Views Dai Le: My unlikely career move into politics, ten years on Today marks ten years Dai Le contested the Cabramatta by-election in 2008, for the Liberal Party of NSW and up against a very safe Labor seat.
News & Views Apparently, it was an ‘administrative error’ that saw Senators vote for racist motion Twenty eight senators voted in favour of Pauline Hanson’s racist motion urging the Chamber to acknowledge “It’s OK to be white”.
News & Views This is what the Government looked like during Question Time Both sides of Parliament returned today, with schools, discrimination and the weekend’s Wentworth by-election hot on the agenda.
Business ‘I believe in quotas’: How Branson (with business) is driving social change In 2013, Sir Richard Branson along with a group of like-minded global business leaders, launched the B Team- big business committed to social progress.
News & Views Let schools discriminate as long as ‘best interests’ of child considered? No Can anyone win from the recommendation giving schools the power to reject students based on their sexuality, that was contained in Religious Freedom Review?
News & Views Nikki Haley resigns: Trump says she made Ambassador to UN role more ‘glamorous’ Nikki Haley will leave her post as US Ambassador to the UN at the end of the year, in order to give somebody else an opportunity to take on the job.
Business Sexual harassment must be prohibited under industrial law to drive real workplace change If we want to address sexual harassment we must treat it as a health and safety issue and explicitly outlaw it under industrial law.
