The 3rd Pacific Feminist Forum will be held in Fiji from 8- 10 May 2023. It is described by the organisers as "a platform for Pacific feminists to come together and share their experiences and...
Category: Policy
Change the lives of single mothers and their children
As the next Federal Budget looms, the non-profit Single Mother Families Australia is calling for an "end policy induced poverty." The CEO, Terese Edwards, explains. Single mother families seek...
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...
Why I won’t be going to another IWD morning tea
Last year, I boycotted International Women’s Day. I went to a lovely event at the National Gallery, booked myself into a hotel in the city, took myself out for dinner and to the ballet, and refused...
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...
Woah! The PM just said the F word
“The feminists in this room have made things better,” Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told the packed venue. Yes, the PM said: Feminists. Among the audience, there was an audible exhale of...
Audit reveals annual gender pay gap of thousands
You can’t manage what you don’t measure and you can't fix what you can't see. And what is clear for everyone to see reading the results of Australia’s first gender equality audit in the public...
Learning Covid lessons: A gender-just future is possible
Right now, it feels as if the world is lurching from crisis to crisis. We’ve navigated more than two years of a global pandemic that has left none of us unscathed, only to be confronted by the...
Towards a feminist First Nations foreign policy
Prior to the 2022 election, now Foreign Minister Penny Wong announced that if elected, the government would pursue a First Nations Foreign Policy. A decisive global moment, the announcement builds...