Politics

Freshly minted Labor MP Susan Lamb gave an emotional maiden speech in Parliament yesterday, calling for same-sex marriage.

The Victorian government is calling on all members of the community, including businesses and startups, to step up to the mission of bringing gender equality to the state.

When Natasha Stott Despoja was appointed Ambassador for Women and Girls in late 2013, a certain (now former) Financial Review columnist described the appointment as a ‘cynical piece of politics’, which would see the ‘leftie sweetheart touring the diplomatic cocktail circuit’.

Sussan Ley is confident she will return to her ministerial duties, after agreeing to stand down from her health portfolio and the frontbench, pending an investigation into her use of taypayer paid entitlements.

“Yes we can.

The childcare system’s in need of deregulation because workers are demanding too much money for doing little more than “wiping noses and stopping the kids from killing each other”.

If you’re looking to gauge public sentiment ahead of US President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration look no further than the bus permit applications.

The proportion of women in Malcolm Turnbull’s Cabinet has just dropped significantly, with former health minister Sussan Ley officially replaced today during a Cabinet reshuffle.

When it comes to getting to the top, there’s much you can learn from Gladys Berejiklian.

There are a hundred possible reasons why Gladys Berejiklian does not have children, and not one of those reasons is our business.

In one of his first acts as President, Donald Trump has signed an executive order to cut funding to organisations that provide women with advice on abortions.

The day after the inauguration of Donald Trump as 45th president of the United States, almost three million women and men marched on the streets nationwide to show their rejection to the demonstrated sexism, xenophobia and Islamophobia of the new American president.