Labor

Anthony Albanese and Labor have responded to calls from Australian families and working women promising a $6 billion child care reform.

Ensuring equal representation of men & women in Labor’s leadership team has been the first order of business for Anthony Albanese.

In an election campaign full of giveaways but short on serious economic reform, Labor’s proposed change to childcare support is most important.

Families earning up to $174,000 will receive cheaper childcare under a Labor government, under a $4billion suite of changes proposed by Bill Shorten.

Labor announces a $9.3million plan to ensure Australian women can more readily access legal, safe and affordable reproductive health services

As new child care arrangements kick in for parents this week, Labor MP Susan Templeman fears some women will be worse off.

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

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.

Labor’s new deputy leader in the senate, Senator Jacinta Collins, is an example of a woman who knows an opportunity when she sees one and the need to put her hand up to grab it.

Over the weekend The Guardian seized a sizeable scoop and published an essay written by the former prime minister Julia Gillard.

Tony Abbott is no doubt enjoying former minister Nicola Roxon’s blast against her old political boss Kevin Rudd.

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.