This morning we woke to the news that Sam Mostyn will be the next Governor General of Australia. Since the announcement, I’ve been wading through emails and social media posts celebrating the...
By Helen Dalley-Fisher
When women get demonised for speaking out
Is it worse to commit the act, or to say that the act was done? I grew up with a Mum who was a family law solicitor in a medium-sized country town. As you would expect, she had to keep her lips...
The biggest gender equality event you’ve never heard of
Imagine an annual event which is exclusively focused on achieving gender equality, which attracts something in the order of 8,000 – 9,000 delegates from across the globe, and which produces a road...
Female invisibility: why Gender Responsive Budgeting matters
In the 1970s and 80s, academics theorised that building a critical mass of women in Parliaments would result in culture change, accelerating progress towards gender equality. The magic number was...
Imagining a feminist federal budget
Every year in the lead up to the federal budget, NGOs, businesses, and think tanks make submissions to the government about what should be included. With a government focused on deficit reduction,...
It all adds up: why gender matters in budget responses
There’s nothing like a crisis for revealing fault lines in a system. COVID-19 has put our social and economic structures under unprecedented pressure, exposing the gender inequality which sits at...
Will JobMaker work for women?
Last week, the Prime Minister Scott Morrison outlined the beginning of his plans for Australia’s recovery from the economic shock of COVID-19 in an address to the National Press Club. Calling it...
It’s about time: Time Use Survey returns to make unpaid work visible
Among the blizzard of scholarships and programs announced in Kelly O’Dwyer’s Women’s Economic Security Statement last week was a dry little section announcing the reinstatement of the Time Use...