At a time when we can cure heart failure with a transplant and defeat cancer with immunotherapy, governments overlook the most fundamental threat to our future existence. Climate change is not a belie…
Thought we’d moved past blatantly sexualising female politicians? Think again.
If you have hoped, like I have, that Australia has somehow moved beyond a point where the blatant sexualisation of female politicians – whereby the body parts of a Prime Minister are presented o…
Why Zali Steggall is taking on Tony Abbott
The Federal election is yet to be called but the battle for the seat of Warringah, in Sydney’s northern beaches, began in earnest months ago. The incumbent is the former Prime Minister Tony Abbott who…
Why victims of sexual harassment in politics are still forced to suffer in silence
To start, I want to tell you why I am writing this essay. When I worked at NSW Parliament, I was the victim of sexual harassment. The perpetrator worked for a very senior Parliamentarian. I was a naïv…
Penny Wong receives major non-partisan political leadership award
Penny Wong has been named the 2018 McKinnon Political Leader of the Year. She received the award for her leadership and advocacy in promoting tolerance and inclusiveness in Australia, and for playing …
New data shows women are still underrepresented in legislatures around the world
In 2019, women make up 24% of members of national legislative bodies globally, a number that has risen over the past decade. Despite this growth, women are still markedly underrepresented in parliamen…
Women’s groups excluded from this year’s Federal Budget lockup
Eight community organisations representing women, children and indigenous Australians have found themselves excluded from this year’s Federal Budget lockup on 2nd of April. Many of the groups, w…
Meet Pallavi Sinha, an advocate for women & a Liberal candidate in the state election
Pallavi Sinha is a lawyer, lecturer and community leader who has twice been a finalist in the Women’s Agenda Leadership Awards. And she is now seeking a career in politics. Sinha, a long-time advocate…
‘It became a house of horrors’: Julia Banks opens up on The Project on her exit from the Liberal Party
Former Liberal MP turned cross bencher Julia Banks declared that the Liberal Party is decades behind the business world in relation to women, while delivering a blistering assessment of the situation …
Anne Summers: ‘The Liberals have a man problem, a merit problem & a misogyny problem’
An Australian writer, columnist and feminist icon, a former Press Gallery Bureau Chief for the Financial Review, and later Editor of Ms Magazine in the US, Dr Anne Summers’ extraordinary career …
