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

 

Wartime Soldier, Conflicted Mom

Many of the American women fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan are mothers, often single-parents, and they pay a high price for their careers – so do their children.  Read the article from the New York Times

The Women’s Crusade

IN THE 19TH CENTURY, the paramount moral challenge was slavery. In the 20th century, it was totalitarianism. In this century, it is the brutality inflicted on so many women and girls around the globe: sex trafficking, acid attacks, bride burnings and mass rape.   Read the article

First Ladies honour Women

March 11, 2009 — Updated 0233 GMT (1033 HKT)

From Elise Labott
CNN State Department Producer

WASHINGTON (CNN) — The power of women hit the State Department on Wednesday when first lady Michelle Obama joined Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to celebrate champions of women’s rights around the world.

Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton present the State Department Women [...]

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