federal election

If major parties are smart, they’ll be doing their best to appeal to young Australians in the final 4 weeks of this election campaign. 

New research predicts Australia’s 46th parliament will be unrepresentative of the population when it comes to gender, cultural background and physical ability.

Early childhood education and care barely rated a mention in the lead-up to the 2016 federal election. Preschool is on the agenda now.

Labor’s preselected candidate for the federal seat of Higgins, Josh Spiegel, has been replaced by a higher profile barrister Fiona McLeod, SC.

At this year’s Federal election, the women’s vote will prove decisive as never before. We’ll be keeping a firm on how parties respond.

Last week’s Labor leadership change has thrown light on some of the key behavioural biases at play in decision-making.

On June 24, 2010, Australia’s first female prime minister, Julia Gillard, was sworn into office by Australia’s first female governor-general, Quentin Bryce.

Kevin Rudd has completed one the great political comebacks in Australian history by reclaiming the prime ministership from Julia Gillard in a party room vote in Canberra tonight, 57 votes to 45.

Nicola Roxon’s valedictorian speech to parliament on Tuesday got me thinking about success and how our definition of success can and should shift according to our changing circumstances.

Julia Gillard is seriously tough.

During a recent interview with Ann Sherry, who is arguably the architect of paid maternity leave in corporate Australia, she expressed her disappointment that the government paid parental leave debate has been “hijacked by politics” – a debate about privileged women versus ordinary working women.

Ask any working mum about her secret to success and there’s one common denominator: access to quality and affordable childcare.