A bizarre week in politics has just gotten a whole lot more so, with the shock resignation of Greens Senator and Co-Deputy leader, Larissa Waters this afternoon. It emerged, that Canadian-born Waters …
‘The Party has a problem with women’: Liberal president
After weeks of hearing the ramblings of a former prime minister who is firmly entrenched in the past, it was refreshing this morning to hear comments from a former NSW premier who sounds like he’s sit…
Apparently, the ’embrace of diversity’ is everywhere in corporates. You just can’t see it
I’m not sure which corporate offices Christian Porter has been visiting, but they must surely be absolute trailblazers when it comes to diversity. The Social Services minister told The Australia…
Julia Gillard on her anxiety and the mental health of Donald Trump
Is Donald Trump mentally unhinged? It’s a question that’s been proffered by numerous social commentators over the last few months, particularly in response to the US President’s continuous (and often …
Quotas should be considered if private sector can’t get act together: Chris Bowen
Gender equality will boost Australia’s economy and quotas on ASX-listed companies might be necessary to help us get there, according to the Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen. Speaking at the Women In…
‘You’re better than she is on her best day’: MP Emma Husar hits back at Pauline Hanson
Labor MP Emma Husar has delivered an angry response to Senator Pauline Hanson’s suggestion that kids with autism and disabilities be removed from mainstream classrooms. Husar has a ten-year-old …
‘The true beauty of a woman is her brains’: Senator Lucy Gichuhi delivers maiden speech
Senator Lucy Gichuhi delivered her Maiden speech in Parliament on Wednesday night, sharing stories from her childhood and her arrival in Australia from Kenya 18 years ago. She shared how she landed in…
What’s the deal with economic leadership and women in Australia?
Australia’s economic record is a world beater. Not fantastic but outstanding. While all around have succumbed to the flood at some point in the last quarter century Australia alone has kept its nostri…
From climate change to gender equality: A memo to the fed up women
If you weren’t yet feeling fed up, President Donald Trump’s move to pull the United States out of the Paris Agreement may have just gotten you there. Trump’s move now puts the US in the honourable com…
Confusion and apathy surrounds our 2025 commitment to gender equality
In 2014 during the G20 in Brisbane, Australia committed to reducing our workforce participation gender gap by 25% by 2025. In 2017, we’re still not seeing much work on this commitment. We’…
