Will women deliver victory to Gillard?

My article in last Saturday’s Age looks at the gender gap in support for Prime Minister Julia Gillard and the diabolical attempts to undermine it – at the cost of a Labor victory this coming Saturday. Read the article

Special measures to promote women’s employment are NOT in breach of the Sex Discrimination Act

Letter to the Australian Financial Review by the Sex Discrimination Commissioner:

Your article entitled “ASX gender targets raise legal danger” (July 5) argues that listed companies risk breaking the law by pursuing gender targets required by the Australian Securities Exchange.

This risk does not arise if the action taken by the company is a “special [...]

The Ability to Connect

The Age June 26, 2010

It is Gillard’s ability to connect with, surprise and delight a wide range of people that is her ace card, writes Anne Summers.

THERE’S a story in Sydney, perhaps apocryphal but certainly instructive, of how some time last year the hard men of the NSW Labor Party (the “Sussex Street assassins” as [...]