Following the rape and murder of an eight-year old girl in Kashmir in April 2018, investigative journalist Rana Ayyub spoke about India’s protection of child sex abusers on the media outlets BBC and...
Category: Democracy
Why we deserve more from our politicians
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...
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...
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...
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...
Ex-MP Julia Banks describes horrifying culture of misogyny
An audible murmur of discomfort ripples through the audience at the Australian National University's Kambri Cultural Centre as former Liberal MP Julia Banks describes being verbally abused and told...
‘Equals Now’ symposium: Exploring leadership and gender inequality
On Wednesday and Thursday of last week, 16 – 17 June 2021, the 50/50 by 2030 Foundation hosted its inaugural symposium, ‘Equals Now’ at the University of Canberra. In today’s post, Laura Davy...
Men, money and power: The coup in Myanmar
Yesterday, the Tatmadaw announced a state of emergency across Myanmar for a period of 12 months and installed the head of the military, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, as the new head of state....