Keywords: Maternity Leave
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AUSTRALIA
- Moira Rayner
- 23 August 2013
21 Comments
Abbott successfully damped down his glee in the taunting and negativity which he aimed so cruelly at the first woman prime minister, when she withdrew from the internal stoush she couldn't win. In the first round both he and Rudd offered the most boring, stagey and value-free 'debate' we have witnessed since the days of Billy McMahon. But the blokes got aggro and personal in the second.
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AUSTRALIA
- Andrew Hamilton
- 12 August 2013
9 Comments
It is hard to imagine that those living in disadvantaged communities would find great personal interest in the things that matter at election time. Interest rates and mortgages, rates of company tax and paid maternity leave are issues for the advantaged. They are problems of managing income that those without it might like to have.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Warhurst
- 29 January 2013
13 Comments
Gillard's pick of Nova Peris as Labor candidate for the Senate in the Northern Territory could be a signal that she will try to get on the front foot this year. Since her famous misogyny speech last October, she may have decided not to die wondering but to crash through or crash. This poses an interesting dilemma for Abbott and his team.
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AUSTRALIA
- Catherine Marshall
- 10 January 2013
Women have fought the long, hard fight, marching into battle with a baby tugging on one heel and a man hanging off the other. And while the man has largely loosened his grip, the baby never will. Many women are still forced to submit, if not to patriarchy then certainly to maternal instinct. Thursday 8 March
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AUSTRALIA
- Catherine Marshall
- 08 March 2012
4 Comments
Women have fought the long, hard fight, marching into battle with a baby tugging on one heel and a man hanging off the other. And while the man has largely loosened his grip, the baby never will. Many women are still forced to submit, if not to patriarchy then certainly to maternal instinct.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Warhurst
- 02 November 2011
9 Comments
The Gillard cabinet leaks are a sure sign of government instability. The worst aspect of the leaks is the likelihood that they are the product not just of understandable policy differences, but of leadership destabilisation.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 25 March 2010
5 Comments
Few people give a toss about Bilbies, the Arts
or Heritage, but the moment someone rediscovers them and deems them indispensable, only to find that
Bilbies are disappearing and Arts and Heritage are in palliative care,
Garrett's a goner — again.
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AUSTRALIA
- Sarah Kanowski
- 16 March 2010
21 Comments
The Professor of Work and Organisational Studies at Sydney University says Abbott's plan would 'catapult Australia from having no scheme at all to probably being the best scheme in the world'. So why am I, a passionate believer in paid parental leave, not rejoicing?
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AUSTRALIA
- John Warhurst
- 12 May 2009
1 Comment
Catholic Social Teaching promotes the common good, distributive justice and a preferential option for the poor as key principles to underpin any budget. If might is right then the preferences of the strong will overpower those of the vulnerable.
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AUSTRALIA
- Sarah Kanowski
- 13 January 2009
1 Comment
Working mums were 'offended' and 'disgusted' by Mem Fox's childcare slam. Other critics berated 'selfish mothers' and a society sick with affluenza. There was one word missing word from all the brouhaha: 'fathers'. (September 2008)
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 30 September 2008
24 Comments
Frank Brennan responds to Greg Barns' Crikey article which accused him of issuing an authoritarian edict regarding the Victorian abortion bill.
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AUSTRALIA
- Sarah Kanowski
- 10 September 2008
15 Comments
Working mums were 'offended' and 'disgusted' by Mem Fox's childcare slam. Other critics berated 'selfish mothers' and a society sick with affluenza. There was one word missing word from all the brouhaha: 'fathers'.
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