Who designs cities? And who are they made for? In her book, 'Trophy Cities:'A feminist perspective on new capitals,' Associate Professor Dorina Pojani from the University of Queensland offers a...
Category: History
The power to take up space: unveiling Zelda D’Aprano
A few days ago at Trades Hall Council on Lyon Street, Melbourne, the late feminist Zelda D’Aprano was immortalised in bronze statue created by artist Jennifer Mann. Zelda's most famous act was...
‘Optimistic we will pull ourselves back from the brink’
In her book new book, Man-Made, Walkley Award-winning journalist Tracey Spicer asks the hard quesitons about how AI will change our lives. What’s the point in agitating to change the present, if...
Whitlam’s revolution and why it matters now
This is a slightly revised version of a vote of thanks given after a panel to launch of the 'Women and Whitlam' book with contributors, Elizabeth Reid, Marie Coleman and Blair Williams in...
Women and Whitlam: “A mixture of radicalism and pragmatism”
The Whitlam government of 1972–75 transformed Australia. And yet the scope and scale of the reforms for Australian women are often overlooked. A new book called Women and Whitlam: Revisiting the...
Two daring Dames recognised at Parliament House
My International Women’s Day was spent in Canberra, honouring my grandmother Dame Enid Lyons, along with fellow trailblazer Dame Dorothy Tangney. Eighty years after being elected as the first two...
The ‘Dark Lady’ of Shakespeare’s sonnets?
Four hundred years ago Emilia Bassano raised her voice. The world didn’t listen. Who was Emilia? Was she the ‘Dark Lady’ of Shakespeare’s sonnets? What of her own poems? And why was her story erased...
The revolutionary in Whitlam’s Government who fought for women
In Old Parliament House, Canberra, (now the Museum of Australian Democracy), there’s an exhibition called Australian Women Changemakers. Along with the new crop of brilliant young...
The psychological aftermath of China’s One Child Policy
This afternoon (Sunday, October 16) All About My Sisters, a deeply personal take on the psychological aftermath of China’s One Child Policy is screening in Canberra. It screens again later this...