The ignominious downfall of Eddie McGuire after 23 years as president of Collingwood Football Club dominated media headlines for several weeks. But while most media focused on McGuire’s own personal...
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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,...
Commission on the Status of Women – who is left out of the digital frame?
Every month is busy for feminist advocates and activists. The work never stops. But the month of March is when the rest of the world, along with mainstream media, turn fleeting attention to gender...
The urgency of gender justice in the digital economy
Two and a half decades ago I filed a television report for the ABC on what I believed were the bold new opportunities for women in the so called 'digital revolution'. Back then, with the crystal...
Davos 2021: the female voice in a global forum
The World Economic Forum’s Davos 2021 meeting went virtual in January, with over 2,000 invited participants from around the world meeting online. Hunkered down in her bedroom in Canberra, 26 year...
BroadAgenda Wraps the Week
“Vacuuming the living room floor — with or without makeup — is not work that takes enough thought or energy to challenge any woman’s full capacity,” Betty Friedan wrote in her 1963 book The Feminine...
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....
Processing power through partnership and collaboration
The contrasting models of demagoguery and democracy flared spectacularly over the Australian summer as the world witnessed the frenzied dying days of the Trump Presidency as it gave way to an...
‘Mummy-brain’ lasts a lifetime – and that’s a good thing
It’s well-understood that the extreme hormonal fluctuations of pregnancy prepare a mother’s body for the physical aspects of motherhood – growing a child, giving birth, and producing breast milk....