| March 2006: Childlessness: the new vote winner! View the article here... Victorian Women's Trust Director Marilyn Lake has been included in this year's Victorian Honour Roll For Women announced on International Women's Day. View the article here... Men have failings as investors, writes SimonHoyle. View the article here... The cross-party collaboration by female MPs in support of the abortion pill leaves Anne Summers hopeful of a shift in federal politics that will benefit all women. View the article here... |
| February 2006: New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd has been in the news recently following the publication of her latest book 'Are Men Necessary?'. Click here to read the transcript of her interview on the ABC's Lateline program.
View the article here... Also see Caroline Overington's response in the Australian newspaper 'Unheralded Home Heroes'. View the article here... "How do we stop these killer men?" Phil Cleary writesin the Herald Sun (23/02/2006 'Grave insult to murdered wives'). View the article here... For more reaction to Dowd's book, see Virginia Hausseger's opinion piece in the Age 'Why do women hate Maureen Dowd'. View the article here... No longer the towel minders on the beach, girls have hit the boards and are changing our surf culture, writes Louise Williams. View the article here... As the child-care debate rages, the financial reality for working mothers is grim. Claire Halliday and Amanda Dunn report.
View the article here... Book review: Cupcakes and Kalashnikovs: 100 years of the Best Journalism by Women: View the article here... Chile's first woman president: View the article here... |
| January 16 2006: Too sexy for the job: View the article here... Ignoring terrorists in the kitchens and bedrooms: View the article here... Struggle for identity - Aboriginal communities: View the articlehere... |
| December 23 2005: Long time Trust supporter, Pamela Bone, bids farewell to readers of her column in The Age. View the article here... Trust Director, Marilyn Lake comments about the recent racial violence in Sydney View the article here... Sushi Das, The Age, 9th December 2005, asks to hear from the boys on feminism... View the article here... |
| December 14 2005: Lib MP scathing on new welfare deal View the article here... |
| November 25 2005: Trust Director, Melba Marginson, has been involved with the Vivian Solon case: View the article here...
Family Law Reform: Click on 'Read the latest transcript' once you have clicked on the following link: View the article here... |
| November 14 2005: Reproductive rights - information and taking action Visit the web site here... |
| November 7 2005: The Heather Osland Australian Story transcript: Visit ABC's website... the Heather Osland support group site: Visit the web site here... |
| October 31 2005: Civil Rights Pioneer: Read the article here... |
| October 24 2005: The bias inherent in the defence of provocation offended the public's sense of justice. Read the article here... |
| October 3 2005: In a speech to the Going Public Conference, Labor's Julia Gillard responds to Mark Latham's diaries and also talks about women in politics, on the eve of New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark's bid for re-election (c/o Margo Kingston's Webdiary).. Read the article here... |
| September 26 2005: Obesity: the new crisis for women. Read the article here... Eating soy-based foods lessens the progress of osteoporosis in women ... Read the article here... |
| September 19 2005: Senator Natasha Stott Despoja: Leave alone a woman's right to reproduce. Read the article here... |
| September 16 2005: Western feminists fought for the freedom to wear clothes of their choice. Read the article here... |
| September 9 2005: Music transcends age and gender,so, asks Clem Bastow, what's up with this 'women in rock' stuff? Read the article here... |
| August 29 2005: The Parental Leave debate: "Goward welcomes new parental leave provisions" - HREOC Read the article here... "Goward backs IRC on parental leave" - ABC News Online Read the article here... |
| August 11 2005: The rise and rise of sexism in Australia - by Stephen Mayne, latter day feminist Are feminists just sad, old, hairy-legged lesbians who hatedmen? Read the article here... |
| July 25 2005: "Mapping the feminist imagination" - an article by Nancy Fraser Readthe paper here... (pdf 86kb) |
| July 4 2005:
A new discussion paper launched by federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner Pru Goward titled 'Striking the Balance: Women, men, work and family' explores men's and women's choices for balancing their competing work and family responsibilities. Read the paper here... Older women and Gambling – a research paper by WIRE (Women’s Information Referral Exchange) can be found via their website. Read the paper here...
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