women in politics

People have assumed I am the minister’s wife, my fellow MPs wife, and even recently the Pastor’s wife, writes South Australian MP Paula Luethen.

A record number of women are expected to stand in next month’s UK general election, with women making up 34 per cent of the total number of candidates.

‘Ok boomer’ reached a high-point last week when New Zealand MP Chlöe Swarbrick shut down a heckler in parliament with the phrase.

We met with six women who had run for different levels of government as part of our ‘Disrupt the Status Quo’ roundtable series with the Hall & Wilcox.

Julie Collins, pictured, is Labor’s Shadow Minister for Women.

Licia Heath is the CEO of Women for Election Australia (WFEA) a not-for-profit, non-partisan organisation encouraging women to succeed in politics.

Channel 7 broadcast the final episode of Andrew Denton’s Interview for 2019 on Tuesday in which he sat down with the former foreign minister Julie Bishop.

A group of young, white men in “Team Mitch” t-shirts gather around a cardboard cutout of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. 

While a code of conduct is a step in the right direction, it is unlikely to change the internal culture of the Liberal Party.

‘Now is the time for organisational change and working out a strategy to encourage more women in the party,’ Kathryn Greiner says.

US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has arrived in her home state of Minnesota to a large crowd of supporters at the airport who cheered and shouted “welcome home Ilhan” as she greeted her loved ones.

The former German defence minister Ursula von der Leyen has been elected as the next EU Commission president, the first female to hold the position.