My latest article in The Monthly looks at women already fighting on the front line. Read article
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Time we had this discussion. Read article 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 [...] I visited Strathcona (which is in Melbourne) on Friday April 29, including a visit to Tay Creggan, their Year 9 campus, which of course features in my book The Lost Mother. My mother’s portrait hung on the walls of Tay Creggan from 1933 until 1969 when my grandmother finally was able to buy it. [...] COAG meeting, Canberra 13 February 2011. L to R: Queensland Premier Anna Bligh, New South Wales Premier Kristina Keneally, Prime Minister Julia Gillard Starting on January 1, the federal government’s paid parental leave scheme came into effect. Australia was the second-last nation in the developed (and not so-developed) world to introduce this most necessary adjunct to working women’s lives. The United States is now the only country to not have such a scheme. |
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