I have two young kids, and love discussing the joys and challenges of fatherhood with different audiences. I’ve been grappling with a dilemma ever since we first heard news of alleged sexual assault...
Category: Commentary
Cabinet reshuffle falls short on equality
With last week’s cabinet reshuffle, the Morrison Government was hoping to reset, recasting its blokey, accident-prone blundering about the safety and security of women inside and outside Parliament...
Women’s March4Justice through a feminist policy lens
So much has happened over the last month to crystallize this cause and there are many sombre threads this assembly of protesters weave together. It is worth remembering that just such political...
Why Brittany Higgins’ story has stoked women’s rage
Occasionally a story breaks that, although the circumstances are not terribly new and on the surface not that surprising, nevertheless triggers a deeply buried rage within women. A furious,...
Davos 2021: the female voice in a global forum
The World Economic Forum’s Davos 2021 meeting went virtual in January, with over 2,000 invited participants from around the world meeting online. Hunkered down in her bedroom in Canberra, 26 year...
Processing power through partnership and collaboration
The contrasting models of demagoguery and democracy flared spectacularly over the Australian summer as the world witnessed the frenzied dying days of the Trump Presidency as it gave way to an...
BroadAgenda Wraps the Week
Another year. Another brouhaha over the Aussie day lamb ad (are they becoming too political?) and the Australia Day honours list. Honestly, after last year’s national convulsion over the awarding of...
Australian honours and that bullseye award!
Watching my former ABC colleague Kerry O’Brien explain why he wrote to the Governor General last Saturday to decline his appointment as an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) left me somewhat...
The Drug War, Women & Leadership in the Philippines
President Duterte is a self-declared womaniser, who can also lay claim to bouts of feminist policy. But, on the face of it, such apparent contradiction is not isolated when it comes to women,...