Labor

Women played a major role in Labor’s victory in South Australia, with the five seats gained in the lower house all won by female candidates.

Both major parties have announced new policies to address domestic and sexual violence, with Labor pledging to create a new commissioner.

A federal Labor government would commit $24 million to fund Working Women’s Centres across the country in bid to stamp out sexual harassment.

Queenslanders appear to have given Palaszczuk’s government a tick of approval for its health and economic responses to coronavirus.

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.