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“Politics seems so much about strategy, posturing, wedging, trolling and the deliberate fostering of mutual antagonism. Question Time typifies this negativity … Politicians, if they choose to or if...

In a field still reliant on the dual role played by envoys and their spouses, women with wives are a distinct advantage to international diplomacy. Yet, until now, little was known about the lives...

There is a delightful moment in this week’s BroadTalk podcast when Dame Annette King, New Zealand’s longest serving female MP and now High Commissioner to Australia, chuckles to herself. We were...

Australian journalists have long been critical of our defamation laws and their “chilling effect” on reporting sexual harassment and assault stories in the context of the #MeToo movement. Several...

Why COVID-19 will stop women entering politics. Canberra Times. 7 August. Because women are busy doing so much more COVID-related work, they don't even have time to scratch themselves, let alone run...

Dame Annette King is someone you always want at the table. The dinner table or the board table, or perhaps even the kitchen table as she chops veg for a family roast. She is delightful company and...

In a sea of red ink and a carnage of numbers, the Treasurer Josh Frydenberg stood to outline his July Economic and Fiscal Update to the National Press Club on 24 July 2020. Australia had been rocked...

There’s a scene in the movie Bombshell in which the character Kayla Pospisil, a young and justly ambitious producer within the Fox News empire, is called to a one-on-one meeting with the obesely...

There’s nothing like a crisis for revealing fault lines in a system. COVID-19 has put our social and economic structures under unprecedented pressure, exposing the gender inequality which sits at...