News & Views Meet Sri Lanka’s new prime minister Dr Harini Amarasuriya Dr Harini Amarasuriya is the third woman to become prime minister in Sri Lanka after the National People Power won the recent election.
News & Views Thailand elects its youngest and second ever female PM Thailand elected its youngest ever prime minister, Paetongtarn Shinawatra, the daughter of Thailand’s former billionaire prime minister.
News & Views Modern prime ministers have typically left parliament soon after defeat. So why doesn’t Scott Morrison? In years gone by, former prime ministers were often trusted confidants to their successors. Not so these days, when the trend has been for former leaders to make a swift exist from the parliament.
News & Views Julia Gillard urges the Liberal Party to rethink its view on quotas Former PM Julia Gillard, has urged the Liberal Party to reconsider its view on gender quotas if its objective is to see more women in Parliament.
Politics ‘We have absolutely no routine to speak of’: Jacinda Ardern is every parent returning to work In a Facebook Live stream today, NZ PM Jacinda Ardern speaks about policy, multi-tasking, and her appreciation for parents and mums across the world.
News & Views Bridging gaps: Why Jacinda Ardern’s choice of baby name is so symbolic Jacinda Ardern graciously took the time to address the crowd assembled on Sunday and reveal the name of her new daughter: Neve Te Aroha Ardern-Gayford.
Ed's Blog How I met the PM and became part of the ‘strategy’ Last Wednesday I received an invitation from the Prime Minister’s chief spinner John McTernan to attend Christmas drinks at Kirribilli House.
News & Views Gillard didn’t lose ‘because she’s a woman’: Reactions from Eva Cox, Maxine McKew and others Kevin Rudd has completed one the great political comebacks in Australian history by reclaiming the prime ministership from Julia Gillard in a party room vote in Canberra tonight, 57 votes to 45.
News & Views Mad Men working style: Why we’re still failing to harness female talent 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.
News & Views Fall of first female PM explains how leaders judged through gender lens Accounts in the media over the past week explain, or rather rationalise, the downfall of our first female Prime Minister.
News & Views Julia Gillard addresses the end of the world: “It wasn’t Y2K, it wasn’t even the carbon price” In a promotional video for the final broadcast of Tom & Alex’s breakfast show on Triple J for 2012, the Prime Minister addresses predictions that foresee imminent destruction of the universe.
News & Views The Gillard effect: A role model we are lucky to have When Julia Gillard made her farewell speech on the night of 26 June this year and declared she was “absolutely confident it would be easier for the next woman (Prime Minister) and the woman after that and the woman after that”, I simply wasn’t convinced.
