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 [...]
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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 [...] COAG meeting, Canberra 13 February 2011. L to R: Queensland Premier Anna Bligh, New South Wales Premier Kristina Keneally, Prime Minister Julia Gillard Read my latest article on the double-standard that is applied to women in politics, especially to their marital and maternal status and everything about their appearance from their hair styles to the way they wave their hands In Australia in the 21st century the private sector is taking the lead in promoting equality for women in employment and championing women to be leaders in the business world, a field the federal government once had made its own. Read my article in the Sydney Morning Herald, December 18 2010 As Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard battles to stitch together a coalition so she can form a government, following the tied results of the federal election on August 21, I looked at how two previous women leaders fared: Canada’s Kim Campbell and Israel Tzipi Livni. Read my article |
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