Hey! Fat White Women! Ya Clowns! Stop Marching!
Pauline stands for all Australians. Except Fat White women it seems. Has Pauline redressed all the issues that women face?
Women
Will women lose the right to vote?
Impossible, you say? Women could never lose the right to vote, you say? I am reasonably concerned there will be an attempt to stop women […]
Pauline just attacked women and I don’t like it!
We do not need to shame or silence women, or make them think that they are a burden on the system, so women shrink even more and create a bigger space for men who are victims of domestic violence.
Power Rules, Men, Sex and Politics
The focus in the case of Briggs’ resignation should always be about condemning Briggs’ behaviour and concern and empathy for the victim. Sexual Harassment by men, particularly by men in positions of power needs a cultural shift and that shift should start now.
Listening to voices of domestic violence and other talking points
John Paul Langbroek brought me to boiling point the other week with his comments about domestic violence. This shows how out of touch and neanderthal the […]
The Challenge for the New Minister for Women
Today we welcome a new Minister for Women – Senator Michaelia Cash. In December 2013, I wrote a letter to the then Prime Minister and […]
Boys Club Beneficiary Gives Opinion On Quotas and the Quality Of Women
This week we have witnessed white people instructing Aboriginal people about what is or is not racism. We have witnessed the Speaker of the House who has been exposed to be a serial breaker of rules, receive backing from the Prime Minister to remain in the job which will decide who else breaks the rules. Now we have Jamie Briggs, Member for Mayo, a former PM staffer elevated into a blue ribbon seat by The Boys Club, giving his opinion on ‘quotas and the quality of women in parliament.’ Has the world gone mad?
The Agenda of Stigmatization is alive and well in Budget 2015
One of the main themes I have addressed over previous blog posts in regards to the 2014 Budget is the “Agenda of Stigmatization” by the Liberal […]
Some thoughts on the gender pay gap
Shannon Fentiman, QLD Minister for Communities, Women and Youth, Minister for Child Safety and Minister for Multicultural Affairs has announced today that she supports ’positive discrimination’ […]
Julie Bishop and the privilege of not self-identifying as a feminist
Originally published on http://polyfeministix.wordpress.com/ Is standing up and proclaiming to be a non-feminist a sign of personal success, or is it an insular subconscious privileged […]
You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear
As Tony Abbott once said, “politicians are gonna be judged on everything they say”, (May 2010), and goodness knows, Tony has said some rather controversial things […]
Women go back to the future
In 1975 I was asked to take part in the Lions Club Youth of the Year Quest. The competition was in two parts. Firstly we […]
The modern day Aussie woman is a phenomena, not a relic
When will all those attention-seeking, headline craving sexist males accept that the modern day woman is not a relic? Nor an object. She is a […]