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...
Category: Commentary
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...
Turia Pitt: How to rewrite your own story
Ten years ago Turia Pitt had her career mapped out. She was a mining engineer, working in the Kimberleys. One day, she planned to be CEO of a global firm. “That never happened,” Turia told an...
‘It’s time now to right the wrongs of the past’
Co-chairs of the Uluru Youth Dialogue, Allira David and Bridget Cama, talk about their fight for justice and self-determination.
How do we father in the era of #metoo?
I have two young kids, and love discussing the joys and challenges of fatherhood with different audiences. I’ve been grappling with a dilemma ever since we first heard news of alleged sexual assault...
Cabinet reshuffle falls short on equality
With last week’s cabinet reshuffle, the Morrison Government was hoping to reset, recasting its blokey, accident-prone blundering about the safety and security of women inside and outside Parliament...
Women’s March4Justice through a feminist policy lens
So much has happened over the last month to crystallize this cause and there are many sombre threads this assembly of protesters weave together. It is worth remembering that just such political...