Advice Why it was critical for Gillard’s female ministers to stay on News that Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s front bench is set to contain a record number of women is welcome news.
Advice From adrenalin rush to speechless: the loss of the first female PM Three years and three days ago I spent a thrilling night on twitter following talk of a leadership spill.
News & Views Nicola Roxon scathing about Kevin Rudd As Labor’s recent period of extraordinary internal harmony shatters, former cabinet minister Nicola Roxon has excoriated Kevin Rudd, forensically detailing his bad behaviour and declaring he should leave parliament for Labor’s good.
News & Views Nicola Roxon: There’s a ‘dangerous underbelly’ compromising women in Australia Our first female attorney-general Nicola Roxon delivered her valedictorian speech to Parliament on Tuesday, thanking those who’ve helped her manage her political career, particularly when she was a new mother, and cautioning against sexism and the degrading treatment of women at work.
News & Views Women for Rudd? Possibly not on his caretaker front bench Women’s Agenda sister publication Crikey has crunched the numbers to see what a Kevin Rudd caretaker cabinet would look like should a leadership change occur next week.
News & Views Gillard vs Rudd: Labor leadership spill liveblog Prime Minister Julia Gillard called a ballot for the Labor leadership at 7pm tonight.
News & Views A timeline of Australia’s first female Prime Minister When Julia Gillard became Australia’s first female prime minister in 2010 it seemed as though the country had smashed through the ultimate glass ceiling.
News & Views ‘It will be easier for the next woman’: Gillard’s farewell speech Julia GIllard’s farewell speech saw her outline her outline the key policy achievements she is most proud of, address what it meant to be Australia’s first female prime minister, and congratulate Kevin Rudd on winning the leadership.
News & Views Kevin Rudd is rich because of his wife Therese Rein, will she keep her business this time around? Kevin Rudd is easily the richest person in the Australian Parliament.
News & Views How Kevin Rudd will continue campaign for the female vote Labor women’s group EMILY’s List will double down in its bid to hold on to the female vote after the dumping of Julia Gillard, as Labor strategists look to cover all bases to steal victory from under Tony Abbott’s nose on election day.
Appointments Meet Australia’s first female Chief Justice of the High Court Justice Susan Kiefel is to be the next Chief Justice of the High Court, the first woman to occupy the position in Australia.
