“100 years of ‘firsts’: The story of women in Australian parliaments started with a blunder from an inept man with a not-quite-so-ingenious plan.” Ebenezer Ward, an anti-women’s rights politician...
Category: Leadership
‘It’s time now to right the wrongs of the past’
Co-chairs of the Uluru Youth Dialogue, Allira David and Bridget Cama, talk about their fight for justice and self-determination.
Ex-MP Julia Banks describes horrifying culture of misogyny
An audible murmur of discomfort ripples through the audience at the Australian National University's Kambri Cultural Centre as former Liberal MP Julia Banks describes being verbally abused and told...
How the ABC is smashing the glass ceiling
It’s a man’s world, alright. Or that’s what you’d have to assume if you turn on TV or radio. Women might make up just over half of the Australian population, but they are quoted in the media just...
‘Equals Now’ symposium: Exploring leadership and gender inequality
On Wednesday and Thursday of last week, 16 – 17 June 2021, the 50/50 by 2030 Foundation hosted its inaugural symposium, ‘Equals Now’ at the University of Canberra. In today’s post, Laura Davy...
Too Much Icing and So Little Cake….
Like the budget before it, the 2021-22 Budget held out the promise of structural reform to address gender equality. Disappointedly, it delivered yet another missed opportunity for...
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...
For young women Amanda Gorman climbs a hill
National youth poet laureate Amanda Gorman’s recitation of “The Hill We Climb,” at Joe Biden’s presidential inauguration in the United States captured the attention of a nation and people globally....
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,...