BroadTalk is back for 2021 - with a deep dive into gender equality, asking a diverse range of leaders, activists and big thinkers… “are we there yet? and if not why not?”. Today meet Ashleigh...
By Virginia Haussegger
Why Brittany Higgins’ story has stoked women’s rage
Occasionally a story breaks that, although the circumstances are not terribly new and on the surface not that surprising, nevertheless triggers a deeply buried rage within women. A furious,...
Australian honours and that bullseye award!
Watching my former ABC colleague Kerry O’Brien explain why he wrote to the Governor General last Saturday to decline his appointment as an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) left me somewhat...
Kamala Harris and the Vogue power pose
One photo is all it took. One shot on the cover of a fashion magazine and here we are, bang, slap in the midst of yet another public stoush over how a powerful woman should look. Is she ‘pretty’...
BroadTalk with Julia Gillard
What is it about Julia Gillard? As Australia’s first female Prime Minister she was both loved and loathed. Once the nation’s most taunted political figure, she also captured more hearts and shaped...
Do fourth wave feminists ‘get’ their second wave foremothers?
Do young Australian women have any idea how fiercely their mother’s and grandmother’s generations fought to open the doors and opportunities they now take for granted? Opportunities as simple as...
The politics of a scandal
Is this a sex scandal? Or a scandal about sexist culture? Monday’s 4 Corners story is about many things. For the details you’ll have to watch the story, as I won’t discuss them here. But let’s first...
BroadTalk with Trish Bergin
What does it take to be a leader in the face of enormous flux, where disruptive change is not an endpoint, but the new daily norm? And what drives leadership ambition in some women and not...
BroadTalk with Jane Halton
What does it take to forge a trailblazing career, where you rise to become one of the most powerful government bureaucrats in the country, and the first woman to head up the Dept of Finance, despite...