Maureen Dowd on the Republican Party’s war against women

And the Fightback being led by Hillary Clinton. Read Maureen Dowd’s article

Obama pressed to step aside for Hillary Clinton

An extraordinary appeal from Democratic Party pollster Patrick Caddell that in order to government effectively President Obama needs to announce he will not run in 2012 so that Hillary Clinton can unite the country as no one else seems able to do to. Read the article

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 [...]

Save The 7.30 Report

 

ABC TV's Leigh Sales is an excellent interviewer

Read my article in today’s Sydney Morning Herald arguing for the tough political interview and the current format for The 7.30 Report to be retained, and a journalist be appointed to replace Kerry O’Brien as presenter and interviewer.  Someone like Leigh Sales, [...]

Ayaan Ali Hirsi, Ariel Levy and Anne Summers

A discussion about feminism, on Australian ABC Radio’s Late Night Live program on March 25.

One hundred years of Feminism

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