Ed's Blog How I met the PM and became part of the ‘strategy’ Last Wednesday I received an invitation from the Prime Minister’s chief spinner John McTernan to attend Christmas drinks at Kirribilli House.
News & Views Labor party and its gender equality legacy I was recently phoned by a journalist and asked to reflect on what the Labor government had done for gender equality.
News & Views Eva Cox: The feminist scorecard and how Gillard and Abbott rate Recently, debates about policies have disappeared under an avalanche of sexist, misogynist nonsense and the commentary on it.
News & Views Julia Gillard’s three year anniversary: Is Australia still struggling with a female PM? 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.
News & Views Gillard didn’t lose ‘because she’s a woman’: Reactions from Eva Cox, Maxine McKew and others 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.
News & Views Bernard Keane: Media, misogyny and the Gillard years The press gallery will be happy: there’s been a leadership spill, a prime minister dumped, mass cabinet resignations, plenty of action.
News & Views Mad Men working style: Why we’re still failing to harness female talent Labor may have “ditched the witch”, but does the ejection of Julia Gillard from her seat of power close the book on the debate about sexism that she championed and the role of women in leadership? Our first female prime minister is gone, but the feminist challenges she raised, and the battles she fought, are far from forgotten.
Ed's Blog Julia Gillard’s great career lesson for women: Resilience Julia Gillard is seriously tough.
News & Views Fall of first female PM explains how leaders judged through gender lens Accounts in the media over the past week explain, or rather rationalise, the downfall of our first female Prime Minister.
News & Views Expectations of the ‘sisterhood’ in politics miss the more problematic ‘boys club’ When we discuss gender in politics we focus a lot on women.
News & Views Julia Gillard addresses the end of the world: “It wasn’t Y2K, it wasn’t even the carbon price” In a promotional video for the final broadcast of Tom & Alex’s breakfast show on Triple J for 2012, the Prime Minister addresses predictions that foresee imminent destruction of the universe.
News & Views Nine quotes that had women talking this year From Julia Gillard’s “misogyny” speech to Margie Abbott’s media blitz on behalf of her husband and US congressmen attempting to rewrite biology and take claim over women’s bodies, it’s been an extraordinary year for memorable sound bites concerning women, gender issues and the conversation about work, life and balance.