News & Views Meet Sri Lanka’s new prime minister Dr Harini Amarasuriya Dr Harini Amarasuriya is the third woman to become prime minister in Sri Lanka after the National People Power won the recent election.
News & Views The electoral lows and highs of female candidates in the Liberal Party pipeline The past two weeks have been a tough ride for the Liberal Party, with a messy NSW preselection issue and a big win in the Northern Territory, showing both progress and ongoing struggles with getting more women into politics.
News & Views A Liberal Senator believes childcare is destroying the family unit. Is it any wonder women are leaving the party behind? Women are underrepresented in the Liberal Party. There is little wonder when one Senator believes childcare is destroying the family unit.
News & Views Victorian Greens leader Ellen Sandell on the climate crisis, housing and breastfeeding in parliament Becoming a politician was never on Ellen Sandell’s Career Bingo Card. Now, the Millennial MP is the leader of the Victorian Greens.
News & Views ‘I gave all that I could’: Linda Burney retires from politics Linda Burney, Australia’s Minister for Indigenous Australians, is retiring from politics after a decades-long career in public service.
News & Views Labor’s Ali France is running for her third election against Peter Dutton in Dickson Anthony Albanese has announced Ali France will run for her third election against Peter Dutton for the Queensland seat of Dickson.
World Tokyo’s first female Governor Yuriko Koike wins third consecutive term Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike has declared victory after exit polls projected her winning a third consecutive term as head of Japan’s capital.
World Record number of women elected to UK parliament, with first female chancellor appointed The UK Parliament has a record number of women and multicultural members, as the nations gets its first female chancellor in 800 years.
Local Clover Moore seeks record sixth term as Lord Mayor of Sydney Clover Moore says she’ll seek a record sixth term next year as Lord Mayor of Sydney, promising voters climate action and affordable housing
Politics ‘Enormously frustrating’: Karen Andrews could not convince any Liberal women to run for her safe seat Karen Andrews, the outgoing Liberal MP for the Gold Coast seat of McPherson said she could not convince any women to nominate for the Liberal preselection on the weekend.
News & Views Two women from Melbourne want to job-share in federal parliament. Here’s how it would look Australia could see its first job-sharing candidates running for a single seat in parliament in the next federal election.
News & Views Politics must become a more inclusive place for young women. The strength of our laws depend on it Recent research has revealed some stark findings that young women are put off entering parliament and working in politics.
