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The Liberal Party is still beholden to a small cohort of angry men. Women have had enough

I tried many times to meet Peter Dutton about the party’s women problem. It’s clear this wasn’t a priority for him.

  • Charlotte Mortlock

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Politics is still a man’s world. Let’s reimagine the law of this jungle

The absence of women in key political debates has led many of us to turn down the sound and disengage. The natural world may offer a template for change.

  • Julia Baird
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Kamala gave me hope, but could a woman of colour really lead Australia?

Look at what’s happened to Australian women of colour with political ambitions. It’s dispiriting, but we must live in hope.

  • Satara Uthayakumaran
Sabine King, the director of career accelerator and student engagement at UNSW Business School.

‘Humans need humans’: how to be a leader in a rapidly changing world

In our quickly changing tech-driven landscape, a whole new suite of skills is now required to be a successful leader.

  • Joanne Brookfield
Julia Gillard in 1994, the year of the Hobart convention.

Julia Gillard on the vote that has reshaped parliament for 30 years

Some votes can be passed with murmurs of assent, and some with shouts of dismay. Three decades ago, a historic vote at the Labor National Conference was met with joy and dancing.

  • David Crowe
Toy maker Mattel is honouring the late legendary Cherokee leader Wilma Mankiller with a Barbie doll.

Not everyone is happy about Cherokee Barbie

A doll in the likeness of Wilma Mankiller, the first woman chief of the Cherokee Nation, has been hailed by tribal citizens, and lamented for its inaccuracies.

  • Sopan Deb
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Incoming CEOs Vanessa Hudson and Michele Bullock.

No coincidence: Women replace country’s most unpopular leaders

Alan Joyce and Philip Lowe are wildly dissimilar. Even so, both the institutions they have left have been accused of operating without sufficient sensitivity.

  • Elizabeth Knight
Transurban CEO-elect Michelle Jablko

Why appointing a female CEO to run a big company doesn’t feel like progress

What passes for success – or even progress – is still a low bar.

  • Elizabeth Knight
Philip Lowe’s successor, Michele Bullock.

Michele Bullock named new Reserve Bank governor, replacing Philip Lowe

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said: “Michele’s will be an important job at an important time.”

  • Rachel Clun and Shane Wright
Left to right:  Wing Commander (Ret’d) Sharon Bown, Emeritus Professor Christine Duffield, Adjunct Professor Kylie Ward and Group Captain Kath Stein on Radji Beach for a remembrance ceremony for the 21 nurses executed by Japanese soldiers February 16, 1942.

On the toss of a coin, Army nurses traded life for death

Radji Beach on Bangka Island is peaceful and beautiful. But it is also the scene of the largest-ever loss of Australian servicewomen in a single event.

  • Sharon Bown and Kath Stein

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