Last Wednesday first term Labor MP, Emma Husar, announced she would not recontest the Western Sydney seat of Lindsay at the next election amid allegations of bullying, sexual harassment and misconduct…
How women are likely to fare in the super Saturday by-elections
By-elections are a very big deal and there are five taking place on Saturday. The results will represent a significant indication to the government, the opposition and the various independent parties …
Let’s make motherhood a campaign asset in Australian politics
If there’s one good thing to come out the Trump presidency, it’s the fact that in the United States a record number of women are now running for office. Even better, a good number are acti…
‘This is not just my fight. It’s a fight for women across Australia’: Sarah Hanson-Young
Want 53,745 reasons to hope? In five days a crowdfunding campaign to support Sarah Hanson-Young in the defamation proceedings she has brought against David Leyonhjelm has raised $53,745. .@JaneCaro &a…
Women in the Liberal party: An already rare species under threat
The subject of women in the Liberal party is making headlines and sadly it’s not because of impressive leaps forward in the senior ranks. The grim reality is that this already rare breed is unde…
‘Women’s representation is NOT a priority for the party’: outgoing NSW Liberal Women’s Council President.
The outgoing President of the NSW Liberal Women’s Council Chantelle Fornari-Orsmond has slammed the party’s efforts to boost the representation of women as ‘tokenistic’. Women&…
“Unlikable, selfish & ruthless”: Julia Gillard & Hillary Clinton fight perceptions of women in power
“It doesn’t explain everything, it doesn’t explain nothing. It explains some things.” That’s the sentence Julia Gillard uttered in her famously astute and dignified final…
The cabinet reshuffle that shows merit is a furphy
Take a look in Canberra right now and you will something exposed – clearer than day – that we rarely get to see in such close quarters. It is something that has long been denied and resent…
Professor Gillian Triggs inducted into the Women’s Agenda Hall of Fame
At the 2017 Women’s Agenda Leadership Awards in Sydney Professor Gillian Triggs becomes the fifth woman inducted into the Women’s Agenda Hall of Fame, in recognition of her outstanding career an…
Tony Abbott continues to defend Australia from the danger of progress
You’ve got to hand it to Tony Abbott. The former Prime Minister is taking his position as the government’s unofficial chief disrupter very seriously. Just last night in the company of Alan…
