New Zealand police have found a body, believed to be Grace Millane, a 22-year old British graduate, who had been missing for almost a week. Grace was last seen alive in Auckland on Saturday the 1st of…
Hannah Gadsby on the problem with “good men” talking about “bad men”
Not content with her stand up show, Nanette, becoming Netflix’s breakout hit of 2018, stealing the show at the Emmy’s or having her portrait taken by Annie Leibovitz for a Vanity Fair prof…
‘Until you’re out of the workforce, you have no idea how hard it is to return’
Three years ago the Sydney-based consultant, Fran Caratti, adopted her niece after her sister passed away. “She was my sister’s daughter who had grown up in Perth,” Caratti explains. “She came to live…
Politics in Australia is changing & these women prove it
A definitive result in the Wentworth byelection on Saturday may not be known for a few more days yet but several things about politics in Australia are already evident. It is more than likely that ind…
Are men too emotional to lead? It certainly appears that way right now.
“I don’t think a woman should be in any government job whatever. I mean, I really don’t. The reason why I do is mainly because they are erratic. And emotional. Men are erratic and em…
Michelle Guthrie sacked as Managing Director of ABC
The ABC board have fired the managing director Michelle Guthrie, two years into her five year term. In a statement Guthrie has said she is ‘devastated’ by the decision “despite no cl…
Doubt the sisterhood? Read Women Kind & stand corrected
Kirstin Ferguson spent the first 20 years of her career in male-dominated fields – in the air force, law and business – desperately hoping no one would notice that she was a woman. On that basis had a…
Women disagreeing with each other is NOT a civil war
Given the numbers, it takes a degree of wilful blindness to argue the Liberal party doesn’t have a problem with women and something closer to rancour to blame it on women themselves. And yet they are …
The hypocrisy is blatant & barefaced: Why Jane Caro can’t stand Mother’s Day
In 2015 we published this brilliant op-ed from Jane Caro on why the faux adoration of women on Mother’s Day riles her. It remains the best piece we’ve published on the subject and is as ap…
“I see you, I hear you, I believe in you”: Ten words that changed Layne Beachley’s life
For the first eight years of Layne Beachley‘s surfing career she supported herself financially without any help and it was tough. She had four jobs, worked 60 hours a week waiting tables, sellin…
