We are back! With a new line up of familiar and new co-hosts, the Women’s Agenda Podcast is back in 2020 and going bigger than ever before. This week, Georgie Dent and Angela Priestley talk leadership…
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‘Grossly unfair’: How Australia’s super system penalises mothers
Australian workers get paid superannuation payments during paid sick leave, paid long service leave and paid annual leave. But it’s not a legal requirement that Australians receive superannuation when…
Bridget McKenzie’s fall? Not enough to end rorting affair as we learn scope of ‘ineligible’ grants
If you thought the sports rorts scandal that has plagued the Coalition Government was over with the resignation of then Sports Minister Bridget McKenzie, you’re very much mistaken. This scandal …
No we don’t need a ‘Wellness Barbie’
As if we need further reason to interrogate the ubiquity and bastardisation of the concept of self-care as brought to you by the modern day wellness industrial complex, last week Mattel debuted a new …
Pauline Hanson’s particularly offensive & shocking week in politics
Pauline Hanson has had a busy week in the Senate, delivering some of the most shocking and disparaging speeches of her political career. On Monday, Hanson introduced legislation to federal parliament …
We’re not convinced ‘hordes of women’ are calling for a return to ‘1950s-style marriages’
“Hoards of women are calling for a return to 1950s marriages,” according to the Herald Sun’s twitter account. That would be the types of marriages where “husbands always come f…
Don’t silence the violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women
Wednesday marked the start of #OchreRibbonWeek which occurs annually between 12th – 19th February. It is an initiative supported by the National Family Violence Prevention Legal Services Forum and its…
