In the 1990s, Bronwyn Bishop was so ubiquitous that the press gallery wore masks of her face in […]
Category Archive: Columns
SYDNEY WHEN asked to explain why he was running for a seat in the Australian Senate while holed […]
This election campaign has officially pitched tents in Topsy Turvy Land. One candidate after the other has backflipped, […]
No one wants to hear politicians talk about sex. Tony Abbott should have known this when he compared […]
Most mornings, a little box flickers up on my laptop screen: ”How many minutes of freedom would you […]
SYDNEY THE fastest way to lance a country’s anxieties about women and power is to appoint a female […]
De mortuis nil nisi bene dicendum. The idea that it is rude, or a breach of etiquette, to […]
Margaret Thatcher was always viewed as a test case for what women could achieve, but she was no […]
On International Women’s Day, ABC’s Julia Baird takes a look at how women through the past century have […]
In an era in which women were routinely dismissed as hapless housewives, Joan Child refused to be seen […]