Another year. Another brouhaha over the Aussie day lamb ad (are they becoming too political?) and the Australia Day honours list. Honestly, after last year’s national convulsion over the awarding of...
Category: Feature
Australian honours and that bullseye award!
Watching my former ABC colleague Kerry O’Brien explain why he wrote to the Governor General last Saturday to decline his appointment as an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) left me somewhat...
For young women Amanda Gorman climbs a hill
National youth poet laureate Amanda Gorman’s recitation of “The Hill We Climb,” at Joe Biden’s presidential inauguration in the United States captured the attention of a nation and people globally....
A change in perspective by walking in women’s shoes
It has become obvious as this Covid-19 pandemic wears on that transport is being repositioned – both in our minds and our lives. Changeable travel restrictions and new virus strains are reshaping...
Who are the women of the extreme right?
On January 6, Ashli Babbitt, 35, became a martyr. The Air Force veteran was in the act of scaling a barricade of furniture in Washington DC’s Capitol when she was shot in the chest at point blank by...
The baby boomers: why MPs are calling for change
When Kate Thwaites was pregnant with her second child last year, she got angry. She got angry at the fact that, despite the widespread availability of sophisticated (and secure) videoconferencing...
Kamala Harris and the Vogue power pose
One photo is all it took. One shot on the cover of a fashion magazine and here we are, bang, slap in the midst of yet another public stoush over how a powerful woman should look. Is she ‘pretty’...
Leadership doesn’t always come from the top
As we neared the end of 2020 with great hopes for better times in 2021, we reflected not only on a year marked by a global pandemic, but also the fifth anniversary of the signing of the Paris...
Lessons on work flexibility from the home front
Working from home, at least some of the time, looks set to become the new normal for many Australians. There is a complex set of rules governing workplaces which varies between each state and...