Maureen Dowd on the Republican Party’s war against women

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

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

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 [...]

Why do we judge female politicians so harshly?

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

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