Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull & President Donald Trump celebrated with their business besties at a gala dinner in Washington DC this weekend. Among the sea of suits and ties was just a handful o…
Finally, new sexual harassment policies for political staffers
Just two days after the then Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the National Party Barnaby Joyce (finally) resigned citing a sexual harassment complaint filed against him as the final “straw that bro…
The trouble with the minister promoting shared parental leave…who can’t access shared parental leave
As the UK’s Business Minister Andrew Griffiths has been promoting shared parental leave through the government’s ‘Share the Joy‘ campaign. Parents in Britain are entitled to sh…
The deputy PM, a baby & private matters in the public domain
Oh boy. Where to begin? The front page of Wednesday’s Daily Telegraph in Sydney is a sight to behold. A photograph of a pregnant woman, captured seemingly unaware, crossing the road in her gym clothes…
The 10 women YOU believe set the agenda in 2017
We asked you to wrap up the year 2017 and 950 of you responded. When asked to name up to three women who you believe helped shaped the year and set the 2017 agenda there was a lot of consistency in yo…
Laurie Penny on feminism, freedom & how to avoid burning out
Laurie Penny is a British journalist, activist, author and feminist. She began writing about feminism online at 19 and, a little over a decade later, has become a leading voice in discussions around g…
Penalty rates gave me independence & the chance to escape poverty.
I started my first job in the service industry when I was 14 years old and 9 months: precisely the age at which I was allowed to be legally employed. My first job was as a cashier at a well-known fast…
Another day, still no childcare reform.
The real surprise isn’t that the federal government’s attempts to reform childcare have been thwarted. It’s that members of the government seem surprised that’s the case. Earli…
We Are Women, Watch Us Rally
By now, you would have read or seen or heard the news. Over the weekend an estimated two million citizens around the world – from Nairobi to New York, from London to Lisbon, Antarctica to Amster…
NSW Premier Mike Baird resigns: “There is a strong personal cost that comes with public life”
The NSW Premier Mike Baird will retire from parliament half-way through his government’s term. Just after 9am this morning, Baird shared a statement on Twitter announcing his shock resignation w…
