Ricci Bartels has paid taxes in Australia for 46 years. She worked for 20 years in the private sector and then 26 years in the public sector for a NFP community service organisation. At age 62, throug…
#ArrestUs: 60 women who had abortions urge authorities to arrest them in NSW
Sixty women who each had ‘illegal’ abortions in NSW have laid down the gauntlet and challenged authorities to ‘Arrest Us’ ahead of the state parliament debating a decriminalisa…
Dot points are costing women job opportunities
Australian women are missing out on job opportunities if an advertised position description has too many dot points in it. It’s a point that’s got me scratching my head in disbelief but according to i…
No, I can’t be your unpaid mentor.
We all agree that women should be paid fairly for their work, don’t we? We all agree that the gender pay gap is appalling and needs to be fixed. We are outraged that female dominated industries and pr…
What’s in the 2019 Budget for women? Very little
Another year, another Federal budget. And, sadly, another entirely missed opportunity to commit to anything bold or visionary for women in Australia. Nothing to move the dial on any of the structural …
How the Australian budget process is failing women
Ching! Ching! Can you hear it? The promise of cash flowing to women? It’s budget day in an election year and you can bet that women across Australia are about to be offered money. Some hastily cobbled…
What I learned from editing a book about abortion
Somewhere in those first few days after I had agreed to edit a book about abortion, I began to realise just how little I knew about it. I had no idea that it was truly illegal in parts of Australia st…
Backpacking did not kill Grace Millane
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…
