By Kim on July 11, 2010
There is no doubt that the ascension of Julia Gillard to the Labor leadership, and therefore her becoming Australia’s first female Prime Minister, is a significant moment and raises a number of issues for discussion. Some have posed the question [...]
Posted in Culture, Feminism, Politics, Sociology, Women | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, Anne Summers, Catherine Marshall, equality, Feminism, gender, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Labor leadership, labor party, leadership challenge, misogyny, Shakira Hussein, spill, Women |
By Kim on June 27, 2010
I admire Julia Gillard and always have. Those who’ve been around here for a long time, and have long memories, might recall that I was backing Gillard enthusiastically when Kim Beazley’s leadership was on its last legs. I welcome and [...]
Posted in Disasters, Ethics, Feminism, Politics, Relationships | Tagged agency, ALP, ambition, Anne Summers, Apology, care, Culture, Disasters, Ethics, fear, Federal election 2007, Feminism, first female PM, fluidity, hope, insecurity, John Howard, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Kim Beazley, Labor, Labor leadership, liquid lives, Politics, press conference, risk society, second modernity, Shakira Hussein, Sociology, spill, stolen generations, structure, trust, work, workplace, workplace culture |
By Mark Bahnisch on May 27, 2010
Crikey is reporting that New Matilda, which launched in August 2004, is to cease publishing on June 25. Editor Marni Cordell sums up the website’s achievements, and discusses its financial plight, in an editorial published this morning: The online media [...]
Posted in Advertising, Blogging, Creativity, Media, Politics, The Web | Tagged Blogging, blogosphere, business model, Crikey, Feminism, journalism, Marni Cordell, New Matilda, online media, public affairs, publishing, social media, web |
By Kim on May 16, 2010
Nicolas Sarkozy wants to ban the Burqa. The French National Assembly looks set to agree. Despite all the blah about ‘Western values’, women in the West also have issues with compulsory sexualised visibility. The claim that this regulation of dress [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Fashion, Feminism, International, Politics, Religion, Sexuality, Women | Tagged ban, burqa, choice, Feminism, France, identity, Islam, Liz Conor, National Assembly, Nicolas Sarkozy, secularism, sexualisation, values, visibility, West, Women |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 10, 2010
Writing in Crikey the other day, Eloise Keating suggested that “if Abbott wants to woo women, he should start with wages”: Recent figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show Australian women earned just 82.5% of the average male rate [...]
Posted in Feminism, Industrial Relations, Policy, Politics, Women | Tagged arbitration, asu, award system, awards, community sector, eloise keating, equal pay, equal pay alliance, Eric Abetz, Fair Work Australia, Feminism, gender equity, house of representatives committee on education and wor, Industrial Relations, Julia Gillard, labour market, making it fair, parental leave, pay equity, social inequality, social policy, statistics, test case, Tony Abbott, unions, Women, work, work value case |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 10, 2010
As noted, Abbott’s International Women’s Day announcement of a paid parental leave plan has created a lot of debate here on LP [read previous threads here]. And it’s attracted a lot of commentary in the wider blogosphere and media. Gary [...]
Posted in Feminism, Howardia, Media, Parenting, Policy, Politics, Poverty, Sociology, Women | Tagged ALP, Coalition, Feminism, International Womens Day, Julia Perry, Labor, Leslie Cannold, Liberal Party, Mark Bahnisch, parental leave, Policy, reaction, Rudd govermnent, the drum, Tony Abbott, Unleashed, Women |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 9, 2010
A lot has been said about Tony Abbott’s parental leave speech yesterday and today on this blog, on these two threads. As I suspected would occur, most of the qualifications and the actual non-policy aspect of the policy were not [...]
Posted in Economics, Feminism, Howardia, Industrial Relations, Media, Parenting, Policy, Politics, Women | Tagged ALP, benefits, casual workers, Coalition, conservatism, employers, esping-andersen, federal minimum wage, Feminism, ideologly, ideology, income inequality, Labor, Liberal Party, parental leave, productivity commission, social policy, Tony Abbott, transfer payments, welfare policy, welfare state, Women, workers |
By Kim on March 3, 2010
I don’t know what qualifications you need to be a public intellectual. I think you get such a gig because readers of The Age have voted for you, or something. But apparently playwright Louis Nowra is one. In 2007, he [...]
Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, Ethics, Feminism, Media, Politics, Women | Tagged anti-feminism, Bad Dreaming, ben naparstek, Feminism, Germaine Greer, literature, Louis Nowra, Media, misogyny, Sociology, The Female Eunuch, The Indpendent, The Monthly |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 26, 2010
There’s been a bit of word play on another thread about John Quiggin‘s discussion of the coinage of the term ‘Agnatology’ to describe “the study of the manufacture of ignorance”. There are resonances between his diagnosis of the political right [...]
Posted in Activism, Culture, Feminism, History, International, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged ALP, autonomy, bogan politics, Donald Sassoon, end of ideology, Feminism, Geoffrey Barker, ideology, ignorance, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Labour party, labourism, left, Liberal Democrats, liberation movements, light on the hill, managerialism, mutulalism, New Labour, Nina Power, Nordic democracies, political culture, political economy, political institutions, political sociology, right, Rudd government, social change, social democracy, socialism, Sociology, sweden, Third Way, transformation |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 25, 2010
Tony Abbott warns women against sex before marriage Commentary: In a strange land.
Posted in Authoritarianism, Media, Politics, Sexuality | Tagged contraception, Feminism, marriage, sex, Tony Abbott, Women |
By Anna Winter on December 4, 2009
Dr. Cat’s post on women and Tony Abbott is a must-read. She really nails one of the problems I’ve had with the general coverage about Abbott’s “women problem”. So go and read it now. I’ll wait. I’m not going to [...]
Posted in Media, Politics, Women | Tagged Annabel Crabb, Australian politics, Feminism, Judith Troeth, Julia Gillard, Julie Bishop, Kristina Keneally, Miranda Devine, Sophie Mirabella, spill, Sue Boyce, Tony Abbott, Women |
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