After a meeting in Melbourne on Thursday the ACTU secretary Sally McManus publicly called on embattled union leader John Setka to resign in the interests of the union movement, a request he is refusin…
Weren’t the criminal charges John Setka’s pleading guilty to ‘inconsistent’ with Labor’s values?
On Tuesday the opposition leader, Anthony Albanese, called for Victorian union leader John Setka to be expelled from the Labor party, in part, because of disparaging comments he allegedly made about R…
Why Tanya Plibersek doesn’t owe it to women lead the Labor party
The blows keep coming. On Monday afternoon the deputy leader of the Labor party, Tanya Plibersek, announced she would not run for the party’s top leadership position vacated by Bill Shorten after the …
Politics, not just conservative political parties, has a “woman problem”
For quite some time, it has been obvious that the Australian Coalition Government and the Liberal Party in particular, has a pretty significant “woman problem”. Late last year, the slow burn of Libera…
‘An equality agenda’: Daniel Andrews announces 50 percent female cabinet
Victorian Premier, Daniel Andrews has confirmed his commitment to an “equality agenda” starting with the appointment of three new women and an historic 50 percent female cabinet. New addit…
Stuck in the ‘success trap’? A lesson from Nicola Roxon
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. I…
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. It would have been better if it had been today, allowing m…
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 le…
Gillard vs Rudd: Labor leadership spill liveblog
Prime Minister Julia Gillard called a ballot for the Labor leadership at 7pm tonight. Kevin Rudd won the vote 57 to 45 to become leader of the party, ending the tenure of our first femle prime m…
‘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 congr…
