women in parliament

Sanna Marin became the youngest government leader in the world last week. Australia should follow suit, Ashleigh Streeter writes.

Sarah Henderson’s preselection win in Victoria will set the number of female and male Senators at an even gender divide at 38 each.

In her first speech Kate Thwaites said she is proud to be showing it’s possible to be a parliamentarian & the mother of a young child

Here are some of the key women who have won (or are likely to win) seats across Australia and will be entering federal parliament for the first time.

Not one woman featured in top ten most quoted politicians in digital & print articles. This near invisibility of women in politics is problematic.

The Coalition’s surprise victory in is no miracle for women, but we’ve found a few bright spots that may be able to help, depending on the final result.

New research predicts Australia’s 46th parliament will be unrepresentative of the population when it comes to gender, cultural background and physical ability.

The former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull spent an hour on ABC’s Q&A program on Thursday & said parliament is very blokey and decades out of date.

On June 24, 2010, Australia’s first female prime minister, Julia Gillard, was sworn into office by Australia’s first female governor-general, Quentin Bryce.

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.

If you think David Cameron has a ‘woman’s problem’, meet Tony Abbott: the new Australian PM who, among other things, said people should vote for him because he has “not bad looking” daughters.

With a Cabinet decidedly lacking in female faces much talk has surfaced about the women who are waiting in the wings.