Like so many other women, I am enraged that Christian Porter MP is acting leader of the House of Representatives. A position that is one of the most powerful in the country. It means that Porter is...
The Trap: love, abuse and power
Today the Victorian Women’s Trust launches its new podcast series, The Trap, written and hosted by leading Australian investigative journalist and award-winning author, Jess Hill, pictured, and...
Paying attention to voices of trailblazing women
‘Listening’ to the women of the 1890s, the first women with an electoral voice in Australia, hails as a guide as we consider the quality of representative democracy in our Federation, further...
Review: Boil your blood, focus your mind
If you enjoy bursting into rage induced flame, but in pocket sized installments and with a glimmer of hope at the end, you can’t go past Kate Fitz-Gibbon’s Our National Shame: Violence Against...
Training for a 2032 inclusion Olympics starts now
It’s not new to anyone that the Olympics has a bit of an issue when it comes to gender equality. John Coates’ treatment of Annastacia Palaszczuk at the moment of triumph was a textbook example of...
Gender deafness is widespread, but can be cured
Last week, Annabel Crabb’s outstanding ABC series Ms Represented included accounts from women across the political spectrum on what Julie Bishop called ‘gender deafness’. Gender deafness is a...
Why women can’t stop talking about Sex/Life
The TV program Sex/Life dropped on Netflix late June it’s a show that has got the world talking. All of a sudden, thousands of folks were responding to the TikTok challenge that went like this: ...
Must listen podcasts for the late onset feminist
My image of feminism growing up was naïve and clichéd. It was when I turned 50 and the #MeToo movement went viral that I felt a rumble of rage, yet somehow unworthy. Married for 25 years and the...
Review: ABC TV’s Ms Represented
“100 years of ‘firsts’: The story of women in Australian parliaments started with a blunder from an inept man with a not-quite-so-ingenious plan.” Ebenezer Ward, an anti-women’s rights politician...