If you enjoy bursting into rage induced flame, but in pocket sized installments and with a glimmer of hope at the end, you can’t go past Kate Fitz-Gibbon’s Our National Shame: Violence Against...
Category: Policy
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...
Farewell BroadAgenda
The wonderful thing about saying goodbye and packing up an office, are the hours of discovery! As I've prepared to leave my role today as Chief Editor of BroadAgenda and founding Director of the...
Share the care to share the benefits and power
Struggling to get his head around Brittany Higgins’ explosive allegation of being raped in Parliament house, the Prime Minister drew on the ‘clarifying’ advice of his wife Jenny: “You have to...
Female invisibility: why Gender Responsive Budgeting matters
In the 1970s and 80s, academics theorised that building a critical mass of women in Parliaments would result in culture change, accelerating progress towards gender equality. The magic number was...
Gender Quotas or Targets: who wins?
Victoria has led the way on Gender Equality legislation and investment for some time, taking a leap the Commonwealth won't, by introducing a Gender Equality Act. It's the first state-based gender...
The urgency of gender justice in the digital economy
Two and a half decades ago I filed a television report for the ABC on what I believed were the bold new opportunities for women in the so called 'digital revolution'. Back then, with the crystal...
A change in perspective by walking in women’s shoes
It has become obvious as this Covid-19 pandemic wears on that transport is being repositioned – both in our minds and our lives. Changeable travel restrictions and new virus strains are reshaping...
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,...