women in politics

Pallavi Sinha is a long-time advocate for women particularly around domestic violence & a Liberal candidate the NSW Upper House Legislative Council.

Previous Liberal MP and now cross bencher Julia Banks admitted that the Liberal Party is decades behind the business world in relation to women.

At the National Press Club on 6th of March 2019 Dr Anne Summers AO said the Liberals don’t have a woman problem. Women have a problem with the Liberals.

The former foreign minister and Liberal party deputy Julie Bishop opens up for the first time about the leadership spill in August of 2018.

One of the only culturally acceptable ways for a woman be angry — without being dismissed as hysterical, un-hinged — is when she does it “as a mother”.

What a week it’s been for women in politics (again), from emotional farewells to offensive depictions of women in the game.

It is not the first time the high-profile Councillor and Vietnamese refugee Dai Le has contested the safe Labor seat. In 2008 and 2011 she ran as a Liberal.

Raya al-Hassan has been appointed Lebanon’s interior minister, seeing her become the first woman in the Arab world to take on the portfolio.

For some time it’s been obvious that the federal Coalition & the Liberal Party in particular, has a significant “woman problem” but it’s not just them.

Dr Kerryn Phelps, Dr Sara Townend & Dr Neela Janakiramanan are among the women who helped secure a bill to ensure refugees get the medical care they need.

It can put people in power that represent a huge and often unheard segment of the population. Let’s celebrate the value of mothers in politics.

Since announcing her resignation, Kelly O’Dwyer has faced ongoing trolling; labelled a ‘bitch’ ‘a dog’ and everything in between. We need to do better.