This week the Australian government released its long awaited new international development policy, the first rethink in ten years. The policy places gender equality at the heart of development:...
Category: Politics
Referendum vote: Women from history can help us
The upcoming 2023 Constitutional Referendum on enshrining a First Nations Voice in the Australian constitution seeks a change to a document drafted by white male colonial politicians through a...
The 2023 Budget: here’s the gender scrutiny
The National Foundation for Australian Women is an independent feminist organisation that carries a voice outside of party politics. As part of their advocacy work, NFAW publishes a Gender Lens...
Happy Mother’s Day! A women-friendly budget
I never intended to be a single mum. Indeed, when I turned 38 and had notched up 10 years without a partner, I investigated having a baby by myself and very quickly decided not to. It wasn’t the...
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...
Equality in public life. Why does it matter?
This week I was one of the fortunate attendees at the World Premiere of Julia, at the Canberra Theatre Centre. The remarkable script about a remarkable life was given wings through an extraordinary...
Getting women elected: changing the face of politics
The Pathways to Politics Program for Women is a national, proudly non-partisan initiative that aims to change the face of politics by equipping women with the skills, knowledge, confidence and...
Parliament House sex assault survivor calls for redress scheme
Wednesday marks a year since Sex Commissioner Kate Jenkins’s Set the Standard report was published. The report described people’s experiences of bullying, sexual harassment, and sexual assault in...