I have a cold so I’d cried off from an event I was invited to on Tuesday night, but no one felt like cooking so we popped up the road to our local Japanese restaurant. It was early, about 6.30pm and m…
Record number of women recognised in Queen’s Birthday Honours
A record number of Australian women were recognised in the Queen’s Birthday honours on Monday. Women comprised 40% of recipients across all tiers of the awards, including five out of the 12 people rec…
‘Mother’s Day?’ Don’t make me laugh: Jane Caro
How regularly it rolls around – the one day of the year when we offer an off-hand, mostly self-interested, sentimentalised ‘thank you’ to our creators – aka our mothers. I am on the record (in this ve…
Podcast: Jane Caro on ‘accidental feminists’ & when is the ‘right time’ to be a woman in the workplace?
“You get what you resist,” says Jane Caro. And the author and media commentator has certainly been a vocal advocate against the status quo. Whether it’s feminism, making workplaces more accessible to …
Senator Barry O’Sullivan says he is now a woman, so he can’t be ‘attacked’ on abortion
The representation of women in the Australian Senate suddenly increased this week, after the surprise declaration (and stunt) by Senator Barry O’Sullivan that he is now a woman. O’Sullivan…
#LetHerSpeak: Laws that silence survivors of assault need to change
Jane Doe* was 15 when she was groomed and repeatedly sexually molested by her 58-year-old high school maths teacher. At 16, she reported the abuse to her school and then the police before proceeding t…
Politics in Australia is changing & these women prove it
A definitive result in the Wentworth byelection on Saturday may not be known for a few more days yet but several things about politics in Australia are already evident. It is more than likely that ind…
Jane Caro considering running for Tony Abbott’s seat following Wentworth swing
It happened in a different seat, but former PM Tony Abbott might be feeling just a little bit nervous about the massive swing against the government towards independent Dr Kerryn Phelps in the Wentwor…
The hypocrisy is blatant & barefaced: Why Jane Caro can’t stand Mother’s Day
In 2015 we published this brilliant op-ed from Jane Caro on why the faux adoration of women on Mother’s Day riles her. It remains the best piece we’ve published on the subject and is as ap…
The victory of Taylor Swift, Fifi Box & Jane Caro revealing their experiences of sexual assault
What do Taylor Swift, Jane Caro and Fifi Box have in common? Each of these women have very recently disclosed incidents of sexual assault that they kept quiet for many years. Caro stayed silent for se…
