Australian politics

Even before I read the reasons that Liberal minister Kelly O’Dwyer was exiting politics I understood. Of course I did. Who wouldn’t?

3,048 people have donated more than $130,000 in the #Freethepeople campaign to pay the fines of Aboriginal women being held in Western Australian prisons. 

Five years ago had the Coalition recognised its women problem it would now be five years closer to fixing it. Instead women are facing an electoral wipeout.

Last year author Marianne Schnall declared 2018 would be the ‘year of women’ and as it ends we aske 4 female leaders what they think.

Between Andrew Broad, Barnaby Joyce and Barry O’Sullivan’s staffer who has been put on indefinite leave, the Nationals have had more scandals than women.

Andrew Broad, the federal member for Mallee in regional Victoria has resigned from the front bench amid allegations he met up with a woman overseas.

Many male politicians are throwing their toys out of the cot. When the entitled feel their grip on power is slipping they come out swinging.

Kerryn Phelps, Marcia Langton and Nyadol Nyuon will deliver an 80,000-person signed petition to Parliament, requesting that Gavin McInnes be banned.

Julia Banks’s quitting the Liberal party & Sarah Hanson-Young facing more sexist innuendo in the senate just confirms Australia’s women-problem.

The Morrison government has been dealt a critical blow this morning, after influential MP Julia Banks quit the Liberal Party in favour of the crossbench.

In Victoria’s election Labor, under Premier Daniel Andrews, demolished the Liberals securing at least 55 of the 88 available seats.

Shadow Minister for Human Services and Prevention of Family Violence, Linda Burney knows a thing or two about making it in politics against adversity.