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Wednesday, September 13, 2023
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Climbing the ranks: Australia’s gender equity breakthrough
Monash University
When Kylea Tink, Member for North Sydney, decried the “unconstructive noise and aggression” in Australia’s Parliament this week, she wasn’t merely venting frustration. She was challenging the nation‘s political culture, a gesture that marks a...
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Tuesday, September 12, 2023
Australia MP says male colleague used to breathe on her neck in parliament
BBC News
A prominent Australian politician says she has been subjected to ongoing harassment inside the nation's parliament. Former cabinet minister Karen Andrews alleges an unnamed male colleague used to "breathe on" her neck and make crude remarks in the...
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Friday, September 08, 2023
Liberal senator Marise Payne to retire from politics
ABC News
Liberal senator Marise Payne has announced she will quit the Senate, calling time on her 26-year career in federal politics. Senator Payne served as foreign minister and minister for women under former prime minister Scott Morrison, overseeing the...
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Tuesday, August 22, 2023
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Gender equality in politics 80 years after Australia’s first female politicians elected
Women's Agenda
Women politicians now comprise nearly half of elected politicians in Australia, according to reports from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The number of female politicians has increased from 40 per cent in 2011 to 46 per cent in the 2021...
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Thursday, August 10, 2023
Former Liberal MP accused of online harassment by female party member
The Age
Former Liberal MP Bernie Finn is facing allegations of online harassment by a prominent former member of the Liberal Party over public posts on Facebook. The Liberal Party member – who has requested not to be named – has initiated legal action...
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Thursday, August 10, 2023
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Books & Arts Doing “the work that men do”
Inside Story
Labor’s Dorothy Tangney made history in 1943 when she became the first woman elected to the Australian Senate. But though she sat in that chamber for twenty-five years, no Labor woman ever joined her. Instead, she watched as the second, third,...
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Wednesday, August 02, 2023
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Why is there a ‘wrong side of 40’ in politics?
Women's Agenda
The average Australian is a woman aged 30 to 39, with her male counterparts not too far behind, according to the 2021 Cenus. But you wouldn’t know that by looking at those sitting in the upper and lower houses of the Federal parliament. Over...
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Wednesday, July 19, 2023
Victorian local government review prompts concerns about female representation
ABC News Australia
Aspiring female politicians in Victoria are worried an overhaul of local government ward structures will block their chances of election. Councillors in Victoria are currently elected to un-subdivided, multi-member or single member wards. But a...
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Monday, July 10, 2023
Interviews
Fatima Payman
Fatima Payman is a politician of Afghan descent who was born in Australia and currently serves as a Senator in the Australian Senate following the 2022 federal election. Affiliated with the Labor Party, she was officially elected to represent...
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Tuesday, July 04, 2023
Australia: multicultural quotas on the cards for Labor
The Sydney Morning Herald
Labor would be forced to pick culturally diverse and Indigenous candidates under a quota plan that is expected to attract support from across the party at its national conference in August. Victoria’s first Indigenous Labor senator, Jana Stewart,...
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Monday, July 03, 2023
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
When will things improve for women in parliament? They already have
The Sydney Morning Herald
Let’s not sugar coat it, last week was a demoralising and often disturbing time to be a woman in Australian politics. While the media maelstrom swirled around a small number of women, the ensuing discussion about sexual assault and misconduct in the...
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Wednesday, June 28, 2023
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
The long road to gender equality: overcoming institutional resistance to change
Monash University
In recent weeks, media coverage out of Australia’s national Parliament has been dominated by the unedifying spectacle of political point-scoring over the leaked phone messages of former political staffer and victim of alleged rape, Brittany Higgins...
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Friday, June 23, 2023
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Australia: media don’t help. They enable violence against women and fuel the backlash
Crikey
Nearly six years after the #MeToo movement arrived in Australia, and more than a decade after the launch of the first national plan to reduce violence against women, those who witnessed the scenes in Parliament last week — and read the media...
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Wednesday, June 14, 2023
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Carol Martin, first Aboriginal woman elected to any Australian parliament, given Order of Australia Medal
ABC News Australia
A life dedicated to service and paving the way for Aboriginal leaders comes full circle today as Carol Martin receives the Order of Australia Medal. "It was a bit unbelievable," Ms Martin said. The political figure began her career more than two...
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Parliament House of Australia
Thursday, March 02, 2023
Australia breaks records and tackles violence against women MPs
In 2022, Australia achieved record-breaking shares of women in both chambers of parliament, making it, along with New Zealand, the subregion with the highest average proportion of women MPs across both houses (46.4%). The Senate of Australia was the...
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The Saturday Paper
Tuesday, January 24, 2023
Multimedia
Julia Banks on how politics fails women
The Saturday Paper
When Liberal MP Julia Banks quit the Morrison government in 2018, her resignation was cited as an example of how hostile the political environment can be towards women. But Banks’ story and her resignation happened to coincide with a landmark report...
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WA Premier Mark McGowan has named Sabine Winton as one of two additions to his cabinet. (Facebook: Sabine Winton )
Friday, December 16, 2022
Australia: Mark McGowan's new cabinet takes shape, with Jackie Jarvis and Sabine Winton joining ranks
ABC
First-term MP Jackie Jarvis and Wanneroo MP Sabine Winton have been elevated to Mark McGowan's WA cabinet. They will take the places of retiring party veteran Alannah MacTiernan and outgoing Water Minister Dave Kelly, who announced last week he...
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Liberal senator Jane Hume and former party director Brian Loughnane are reviewing May’s election loss.CREDIT:ALEX ELLINGHAUSEN/LOUISE KENNERLEY
Friday, December 02, 2022
Australia Liberals’ election review to back pipeline, not quotas, to attract women to party
The Sydney Morning Herald
A secret review into the Liberals’ disastrous election loss in May has ruled out formal quotas for the number of women MPs in federal parliament and instead recommends a British-style recruitment drive to improve the party’s gender balance. Former...
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