Witnessing violent media reporting about women politicians can deter women from entering politics at a time when we should be striving toward gender parity.
- Senior lecturer, University of Technology Sydney
In Australia, interns rarely get paid. Students and prospective employees undertake internships in order to skill themselves in the industry they wish to work in and to get a foot in the door. Issues arise…
I got the phone call about 6pm on Tuesday night. “Mum,” said the voice. “Mum, are you OK?” Turns out that one of my children had stumbled across a few sentences written by the Daily Telegraph blogger Tim…
Many of the men I knew who ran newsrooms in the 80s and 90s were womanisers, drunks, bullies, and gropers. Some were just sleazy. And any woman, of almost any ambition, was cold or bossy or had too many…
Hard-faced. I’m looking at that phrase and wondering exactly what it means. Of course, I know what it means when it’s applied to men. They are heroic, they’ve seen things that those of us who are more…
Yawn. Scratch. The joys of our own curation during this election mean we can shun the mainstream media doing its usual thing of picking sides for us. And pick our own. For years mainstream media has manipulated…
Could the producers of the ABC’s Q&A have predicted that the election would be called last Sunday? Yes. So could they have predicted that you’d need a little more, well, balance on the first election…
Drop Bears. Look up. Stay alive. pic.twitter.com/3L2yNsQJj7— David Feeney (@Feeney4Batman) August 4, 2013 The women of Australia scrutinised ALP numbers man David Feeney when he wrenched the Labor candidacy…
In a room full of feminists, there was hardly a sympathetic word in the room for prime minister Julia Gillard on Tuesday night. Earlier that day, the prime minister had launched Women for Gillard with…
One of Australia’s best-known journalists, Michelle Grattan AO, will leave her role as political editor of The Age newspaper to join University of Canberra as a professorial fellow and become an associate…
Alan Jones will have to go to accuracy school. Reread that sentence a few times. Still can’t quite believe it? Today the Australian Communication and Media Authority released the terms of its agreement…
Prime minister Julia Gillard took aim yesterday at the “misogynists” and “nut jobs” on the internet posting about her conduct 17 years ago while working as an industrial lawyer. The Prime Minister said…
Writing about the boss is a delicate proposition for journalists. Go in too hard and your job could be on the line; too soft and readers quickly come to suspect whose side you’re on. For this reason the…
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