Advice Julie Bishop Cheat-Sheet: 8 things about Australia’s first female foreign minister Julie Bishop is Australia’s 38th Foreign Minister of Australia and the first female to be appointed to the position.
News & Views Crikey’s fantasy cabinet, with four times the women Prime Minister-elect Tony Abbott has picked just one woman for his 19-member cabinet, to be sworn in tomorrow.
News & Views Why some Australian women loathe Tony Abbott – especially now If you think David Cameron has a ‘woman’s problem’, meet Tony Abbott: the new Australian PM who, among other things, said people should vote for him because he has “not bad looking” daughters.
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.
