Australian Women on the Verge

My Keynote Address to the National Labor Women’s Conference in Brisbane on May 14 in which I celebrate Labor’s success in women’s political leadership but call on the government to take urgent action to improve women’s workforce participation by addressing equality in employment via the EOWA legislation, and to radically reform childcare. Nat Labor [...]

The Stampees (with a Governor and a Premier)

Australia Day lunch, Sydney January 21, 2011

l to r: Anne Summers, Eva Cox, Premier Kristina Keneally, Justice Elizabeth Evatt, Governor Marie Bashir, Germaine Greer. Click the photo for a larger version.

The Stamp

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Here’s a link to one of the many new stories: SMH 20 Jan 2011

And click here for some of the comments on Facebook.

Keating and the arts

An excerpt from The State of our Creative Nation, the 2010 Stephen Murray-Smith Memorial Lecture that I delivered at the State Library of Victoria on Thursday 21 October:

“When it was over, the performers joined Keating on stage in an exuberant throng.  The newspapers the next morning showed a photograph of the Prime Minister, wearing a [...]

Shifting Power: We changed the world, now what’s different?

Communities in Control Conference 2010, Moonee Valley Racing Club, Melbourne, 1 June 2010

“It is a great honour for me to have been invited to address you today and, especially, to have been introduced by no less a figure than Joan Kirner, whom we all love for the trails she has blazed – especially for women [...]

Nina Funnell on young feminists

Funnell, journalist and student, has written an insightful opinion piece which is published online today in The National Times generational differences in feminism. Read the article

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