Women in combat in the Australian Defence Forces

My latest article in The Monthly looks at women already fighting on the front line.  Read article

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 [...]

Women’s Leadership Institute Australia

Congratulations to Carol Schwartz for this important initiative.  Check out the Women’s Leadership Institute Australia

US women: time to end sexist media portray of women in politics

A new group NameItChangeIt has been formed by women in the US to document and combat sexist portrayal of women in public life.  Read the article

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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