|  March
2006:
Childlessness: the new vote winner!
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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.
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Men have failings as investors, writes Simon
Hoyle.
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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.
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| 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.
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Also see Caroline Overington's response in the Australian
newspaper 'Unheralded Home Heroes'.
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"How do we stop these killer men?" Phil Cleary writes in
the Herald Sun (23/02/2006 'Grave insult to murdered wives').
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For more reaction to Dowd's book, see Virginia Hausseger's
opinion piece in the Age 'Why do women hate Maureen Dowd'.
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No longer the towel minders on the beach,
girls have hit the boards and are changing our surf culture,
writes Louise Williams.
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As the child-care debate rages, the financial reality for
working mothers is grim. Claire Halliday and Amanda Dunn report.
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Book review: Cupcakes and Kalashnikovs: 100 years of the Best
Journalism by Women:
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Chile's first woman president:
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| January
16 2006:
Too sexy for the job:
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Ignoring terrorists in the kitchens and
bedrooms:
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Struggle for identity - Aboriginal communities:
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| December
23 2005:
Long time Trust supporter, Pamela Bone,
bids farewell to readers of her column in The Age.
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the article here...
Trust Director, Marilyn Lake comments about
the recent racial violence in Sydney
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the article here...
Sushi Das, The Age, 9th December 2005, asks
to hear from the boys on feminism...
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the article here...
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| December
14 2005:
Lib MP scathing on new welfare deal
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the article here...
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| November
25 2005:
Trust Director, Melba Marginson, has been
involved with the Vivian Solon case:
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the article here...
Family Law Reform:
Click on 'Read the latest transcript' once you have clicked
on the following link:
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the article here...
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| November
14 2005:
Reproductive rights - information and taking
action
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the web site here...
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| November
7 2005:
The Heather Osland Australian Story transcript:
Visit
ABC's website...
the Heather Osland support group site:
Visit
the web site here...
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| October
31 2005:
Civil Rights Pioneer:
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the article here...
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| October
24 2005:
The bias inherent in the defence of provocation
offended the public's sense of justice.
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the article here...
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| 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)..
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the article here...
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| September
26 2005:
Obesity: the new crisis for women.
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the article here...
Eating soy-based foods lessens the progress
of osteoporosis in women ...
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the article here...
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| September
19 2005:
Senator Natasha Stott Despoja: Leave alone
a woman's right to reproduce.
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the article here...
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| September
16 2005:
Western feminists fought for the freedom to wear clothes of
their choice.
Read
the article here...
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| 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...
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| August
29 2005:
The Parental Leave debate:
"Goward welcomes new parental leave provisions"
- HREOC
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the article here...
"Goward backs IRC on parental leave"
- ABC News Online
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the article here...
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| 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 hated
men?
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the article here...
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| July
25 2005:
"Mapping the feminist imagination" - an article
by Nancy Fraser
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the paper here... (pdf 86kb)
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| 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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