The paradox of our Prime Minister

My latest article in the Sydney Morning Herald looks at how Julia Gillard’s assets are not being conveyed to the voting public.  Read the article

A Tale of Two Profiles

Good Weekend‘s John van Tiggelen has written an extensive profile of right-wing media ‘megaphone’ Andrew Bolt following on from my own profile in The Monthly in October. You can read both pieces: here and here

Tony Abbott’s big bad black hole

Has the Opposition Leader dug a big hole for himself with his opposition to the Minerals Resources Rental Tax? Read my article in The Hoopla (www.thehoopla.com.au)

Can we ever agree?

My speech to a Public Sector Leadership Summit in Canberra last week on the need for (and lack of) a national collective vision in Australia today.

Australian Public Sector Leadership Summit 2011

 

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 [...]

Julia the fixer eases into the top job

On his elegant memoir the former British prime minister Tony Blair describes his reaction when he walked into 10 Downing Street for the first time: “My predominant reaction was fear…”

If Blair felt this way, after a landslide victory,imagine what must have been going through Julia Gillard’s mind the night she failed to secure an outright [...]

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