Category: News
The politics of women’s political representation: Anne Summers’ National Press Club address
Fellow journalists; ladies and gentlemenWhen I joined the Canberra Press Gallery as political correspondent for the Australian Financial Review in 1979 there were no women members of the House of...
Loud and Luminous: Empowering female photographers
Women continue to be underrepresented in the photography industry - can you tell us about the Loud and Luminous project and how it attempts to address the imbalance? Loud and Luminous is a project...
#BalanceforBetter: Celebrating emerging leaders
International Women’s Day is a day to celebrate all women. Women who are fighting systems which only elevate a particular type of women, or a particular way of doing things. Women who are advocating...
It’s not blood we’re talking about here. Period.
When we talk about periods, we’re not really talking about blood.We’re talking about education. Safety. Removing the shame and stigma of being a woman or a girl. We’re talking about the basic human...
Backlash against sex education in ‘Feminist Canada’
The recent decision in the Canadian province of Ontario, to scrap its modern sex education curriculum, is “a significant retrogressive step” and “part of the backlash” against sexual and...
Closing the pay gap in sports: Q&A with Elizabeth Broderick AO
Q1. As you mention in your new report, Male Champions of Change Pathway to Pay Equality, when it comes to gender pay inequity in sport, we're talking about centuries of underinvestment in women’s...
En Garde: Sexism and misogyny in Australian politics
Since the watershed moment of Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s sexism and misogyny speech in 2012, the Australian public has benefited from a much franker debate about the reality of women’s...
Digital community mothering: How migrant mothers in Australia build community on Facebook
Migration and motherhood are both significant life changes. They disrupt social infrastructures, requiring the rapid acquisition of new knowledge and new networks, and the renegotiation of identity....