Ongoing public discussion about violence against women in Australia has increased attention on the way women are portrayed in the news media. The Digital News Report: Australia 2021 finds that...
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The time for equality is now – let’s turn the heat up, not let things cool
For Canberra women, it’s hard to drive past Parliament House up on the hill without thinking about every time we’ve been sexually harassed or assaulted. Without feeling slightly ill with...
Will this budget reflect a government representing the needs of all Australians?
Déjà vu or “haven’t we heard this all before” lurks distinctly as we approach next week’s budget. Last year we wrote in this Public Service Informant of hopeful signs with the Treasurer hinting at...
Ignored & given scraps: Office for Women demeaned by Gov
There has been a deathly silence from the Office for Women, PM&C of late. In fact, not 'of late', but of long! This Office, originally established under Gough Whitlam to ensure the operations of...
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....
BroadAgenda Wraps the Week
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...
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....
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...
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’...