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As the ICAC hearings in New South Wales are showing, the issue of integrity in Australian politics is a murky one that is rightly being held up to scrutiny.

Penny Wong delivered a speech written by 17-year-old Winter Birkett from South Australia, who wants to see more women in parliament.

The NSW government will spend nearly $500 million to tackle domestic and family violence and establish women’s refuges across the state.

Yamatji and Noongar woman Dorinda Cox has become the first Aboriginal woman to represent Western Australia in the federal senate.

Tomorrow night, the Annual Ernies Awards will return in full force — marking yet another round of world-class sexism in Australia.  

Women fleeing domestic violence will now be eligible for a new, one-off payment of up to $5000, under a new two-year trial.

News of another baby for the Perrottet family is lovely, but we can’t help wondering how the Premier is coping? After all, it’s a BIG juggle.

He won’t be held hostage but Barnaby Joyce will be naming a price on leading the Nationals to agreeing to a new zero commitment.

NSW CHO, Kerry Chant was an unsettling no-show at yesterday’s COVID press conference with Dominic Perrottet unveiling his “new roadmap”.

Some commentators seem to think the NSW ICAC makes findings of criminal guilt or innocence. Others have claimed the legislation creates an offence of corrupt conduct.

A social and economic conservative, Perrottet was elected to the NSW parliament in 2011. He is well-known to be a staunchly religious Catholic.

Gladys Berejiklian’s untimely resignation as the 45th Premier of NSW speaks volumes about gendered politics.