politics

Melbourne University tax professor Miranda Stewart says the cost of work remains too high for women and the proposed tax cuts won’t help.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull & President Donald Trump held a gala dinner in Washington DC over the weekend. Fifty one business heads were invited and women made up less than 8% of the guest list.

Just two days after Barnaby Joyce (finally) resigned citing a sexual harassment complaint filed against him as the final straw the Department of Finance is reviewing its sexual harassment policy.

Andrew Griffiths is the UK’s business minister who is currently promoting shared parental leave and admits to Emma Barnett that he can’t access it himself.

The deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce is reportedly expecting his fifth child with a woman who once worked in his office.

We asked you to name up to three women who shaped the year 2017 and ten names came up more than any others. Meet the 2017 agenda setters.

Laurie Penny on feminism, freedom & how to avoid burning out. She is speaking at the school of life in Sydney about why freedom is under threat.

Penalty rates held out a promise that if we worked hard just maybe we might escape the poverty trap which is why cutting penalty rates hurts.

Childcare reform remains an ideal not a reality and it’s difficult to believe it is a priority of the federal government.

The NSW Premier Mike Baird will retire from parliament half-way through his government’s term.

The press gallery will be happy: there’s been a leadership spill, a prime minister dumped, mass cabinet resignations, plenty of action.

A throwaway line from a barista tipped me over.