I woke up this morning in a fine mood. I walked the dog, ate breakfast, did an interview and was just about to start writing about imposter syndrome (as one does) when a text from a friend just blew...
By Virginia Haussegger
BroadTalk with Kate Ellis
What is a leader supposed to look like? How is a woman supposed to dress in order to be taken seriously? And what sort of cultural shift is needed to give ambitious women the freedom to just be...
A theatre of the absurd? Women in Question Time
“Politics seems so much about strategy, posturing, wedging, trolling and the deliberate fostering of mutual antagonism. Question Time typifies this negativity … Politicians, if they choose to or if...
BroadAgenda Wraps the Week
There is a delightful moment in this week’s BroadTalk podcast when Dame Annette King, New Zealand’s longest serving female MP and now High Commissioner to Australia, chuckles to herself. We were...
BroadAgenda Wraps the Week
Violence swirls around women’s lives in myriad ways. It lurks in the way men speak to women, the way they might look at them, rattle their confidence, patronise, exclude and belittle them. Violence...
BroadTalk with Minister Marise Payne
Marise Payne has long been an enigma. Who is this woman who’s quietly become the highest-ranking woman in the current Australian government and therefore the most powerful female in the nation? And...
BroadAgenda Wraps the Week!
As an uppity journalist and presenter of the 7.30 Report in Adelaide, back in the mid-90s, I was taking my seat in the South Australian press gallery one day when all heads turned my way. ‘Oh, it’s...
BroadAgenda Wraps the Week!
Funny isn’t it how some of those Johnny and Jill come latelys to feminism just don’t get it. A flash of purple ribbon on IWD and a ‘you go girl!’ speech at a women’s brekkie and hey presto. I’m in!...
Corporate board diversity hampered by ‘laggards’
There is reason to celebrate the slow but inexorable rise in female representation on corporate boards. However, a new report has found that the apparent positive momentum towards women's leadership...