Kristine Ziwica
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Journalist, Columnist and Consultant @theage @smh @SatPaper @crikey_news @WomensAgenda contributor. Feminist. Not enough hours in the day. Opinions mine.
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Cover reveal: My book, "Leaning Out" will be published by
@HardieGrant
@crikey_news
in September. What happens when girl power grows up? How has "lean in" feminism failed to deliver? Covid-19 has provided us an opportunity for a re-imagining -- and a new deal for women at work.
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The hero nurse who managed to vaccinate my very needle phobic tween called yesterday to check in on her and tell us she had schedule my child’s second appointment at the end of her shift so she could “spend all the time with her she needs”. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
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I am reliably informed the PM's office is claiming "no one credible" is making the argument that the budget and economic security statement didn't deliver for women. Happy to add my name to the list of incredible
#crediblewomen
making precisely that point!
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Morrison: "As Prime Minister or Treasurer you can't just go around making stuff up and think people will respect you."🧐
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“I formed a clear view that there was a reasonable prospect of conviction and this is a view I still hold today,” Shane Drumgold ACT Director of Public Prosecutions. “Ms. Higgins has faced a level of personal attack that I have not seen in over twenty years of doing this work.”
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“Level with us, what did you do wrong and why are women so angry?” asks
@PatsKarvelas
of Sussan Ley on
@RNBreakfast
. “Women haven’t heard what we were saying” says Ley. I think they heard… loud and clear. 🥹
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"There was a gasp that went around the room when we realised the rising costs of the NDIS", Sarah Ferguson on
@abcnews
Does anyone else see the problem of having this repeatedly brought up without any disabled people on the panel?
#Budget2023
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Five women allegedly murdered by an intimate partner in eight days. A scan of the media: no headlines. A look at our national (publicly funded) prevention organisation: crickets. Minister for Women and Minister for Social Services, nothing. Where is the outrage? The leadership?
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🧵About the “professional women” who determined this election narrative. Can we please not. Two reasons…(1)
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Three years ago Catherine Marriott told
@leighsales
about allegedly being sexually harassed by Barnaby Joyce in the hopes it would "improve the way all political parties deal with complaints of sexual harassment". Today Joyce was re-instated as Deputy PM.
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It credits a dominant strain of corporate feminism in Australia for this outcome that, in my opinion, has been complicit in the lost decade we’ve just seen in relation to gender equality. (2)
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Which leads me to my next point: it flattens/ simplifies the narrative about women’s anger, and prevents us from learning the lessons from this outcome. What they are collectively demanding and why. (4)
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Observation: some who rightly applauded Grace's side eye at the PM and rejected criticism she should not have done it publicly are now suggesting First Nations women, WOC, disabled women should "privately" voice their concerns about a feminism in Australia that excludes them.
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My god that interview with Jane Hume on
@RNBreakfast
this morning was something. Firstly, “crossing our fingers” that Omicron is “beginning to dissipate” is not really a plan for dealing with the pandemic. (1)
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On ABC Radio, Anne Ruston called for greater clarity on “who knew what, when” in the Higgins case. 🧐 Shall we start with findings from the Gaetjens inquiry then? 🤷🏻♀️ Or maybe everyone can stop playing politics with women’s safety and get on with implementing Set the Standard.
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"People who think they know better than us, will not listen to us and will not act on our advice." Marcia Langton at the
#WomensSafetySummit
. "And nothing is funded long enough to achieve success...I can't emphasise enough the need for our own Indigenous plan." Clear? Crystal. 👏
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Another woman thrown under the bus by Australian media — a pattern of how
#MeToo
has unfolded here. Honestly, some complain women don’t go via official channels. And then those very same people leak or violate privacy when women do just that. Why would any woman come forward?
Former Liberal MP denounces radio station after being named as complainant behind harassment allegations
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John Collier, head of all boys Shore School, says “he was not a monster” and asks what caused a “psychotic episode”. I despair. If the head of an elite boy’s school has not absorbed decades of research on what drives
#VAW
, we are not getting anywhere.
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I will just leave this here today. Me in
@GuardianAus
earlier this year. Ironic really: watching Brittany Higgins be cross examined in a defamation trial — I repeat, a defamation trial — during the
#16DaysofActivism
against gender based violence.
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Just thinking about what an absolute boss Tegan George is. Remember when she asked the PM to reflect on
@BrittHiggins_
allegation as “a human being”. Wonder why women in the gallery calling bullshit makes some men so uncomfortable. No reason. 🤷🏻♀️
In a tense few minutes, Prime Minister
@ScottMorrisonMP
was confronted on his response to Brittany Higgins' rape allegations by 10 News First's Tegan George who asked the PM how he should feel as a human being
#auspol
|
@tegangeorge
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“Any reasonable person watching this vicious exposure might conclude Higgins was right to be fearful. They might also conclude her lack of faith in the justice system was rational.” Via
@JacquelineMaley
@smh
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Just watched PM's press conference re
#ChristianPorter
. All I can say is: I will not be lectured on the meaning of the 'rule of law' by those men. I suggest they reflect on the meaning of 'justice' and how victims of VAW have -- for too long -- had the scales tipped against them.
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PSI: I bought these N 95s at the chemist yesterday and they are the most comfortable face masks I have had since the start of the pandemic. My glasses don’t even fog. Pure living nailed it.
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Re the allowing women to contribute up to $300,000 to top up super if they downsize their home presumes the women who face poverty in old age own their own home. Many don’t. That’s the problem.
#Budget2021
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Albanese isn’t wrong. We do need a more “comprehensive” housing strategy, in reference to Coalition announcement today for downsizers. Older women over age 55 fastest growing cohort of homeless. Today’s announcement does nothing for them. They don’t have a home to downsize.
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Thinking about Wag the Dog, a movie where a spin doctor and a Hollywood producer who fabricate a war in Albania to distract voters from a presidential sex scandal. No reason. 🤷🏻♀️
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For all those who innocently scratch their heads and ask why women don’t report sexual and domestic violence. Gee, I wonder why?
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It's official, we have a "she-cession". But a "blokey", construction led recovery? And we're going to ax free childcare, while ensuring the female dominated early education sector is the first (and thus far only) sector to lose Jobkeeper? We need a shovel all right.
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"Look closer, there are losers," says
@annabelcrabb
"Buying a truck is one way of increasing productivity. Hiring a childcare worker not only provides a job, but frees up another person to do another job. Why doesn't this ever seem to enter the equation?"
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In Jan 2020 the
@AusHumanRights
Sexual Harassment Inquiry landed on Christian Porter’s desk. Looks like he didn’t read the section on how Australia’s defamation laws were used by alleged perpetrators to silence victims — and creat a chilling effect in media. Or maybe he did.
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Actual conversation with child: We go to get takeaway smoothie bowl. I drop it. It starts leaking. I say a few choice swear words. Then I say, "Sorry, I'm a bad example". Child: "You're not a bad example: you're just a mum in lock down doing the best you can." ❤️❤️❤️❤️
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“The community will have two weeks to offer feedback on the draft plan.” Two weeks. In January. In the midst of an Omicron wave. To comment on the new National Plan to End VAW that will determine the next decade of work and funding. 🥺
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Lovely pics from
@mpbowers
. Labor senator
@JanaStewartVIC
has brought her son, Ari into the chamber, which her office believes may be the first time a Koori/First Nations baby has been on the floor of the senate.
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Victorian teachers. I salute you. Less than 24 hours to prepare and the kids are up and at em today … plus you managed some pretty good empathy and emotional support at the morning webex (despite what I am sure are your own frustrations). 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
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Currently writing a piece about women's work and its value. Here's a startling statistic: Of the 30 lowest-paying jobs, including food server, housekeeper and child-care worker, 23 are female dominated. Might those be the jobs on the so-called "front-line" of this pandemic?
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Thanks to a friend in Berlin for sharing this. And don’t @ me... she is a single parent so at her house it is primarily “mum”. Dads working from home, this is (or should be) a useful resource for you.
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This weekend marks six months since the Brittany Higgins allegations broke. How much political capital has Scott Morrison expended on issues of concern to women, particularly their safety and economic security? Me today in
@SatPaper
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"I've been briefed on the contents of them". Could Scott Morrison do the alleged vicim the courtesy of actually reading her allegations himself?
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At the end of a long week in politics, I just want to salute
@LucyTurnbull_AO
and
@Therese_Rein
, Oz politics very own Frankie and Grace, who rose above party politics with their eyes firmly on supporting change for women.
#crediblewomen
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Ray Hadley saying the quiet part out loud. “This is a quality woman Amanda Stoker”. Meanwhile he takes a swipe
@SenatorThorpe
b/c she “is not prepared” to go to police. I wonder why that might be? The very definition of “the perfect victim” in practice.
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Re
@JoshFrydenberg
on
@RNBreakfast
this morning. Women (and especially young women) call for “justice”, for safety, for an end to discrimination. Frydenberg: let’s talk about how much taxes you pay and whether you feel “rewarded” for your effort. 🤨
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This morning hundreds of desperate DV service providers ask for $150 million to meet demand. End of day: govt says here have $10 million to help women on temporary visas and a survey to ask Australian's if they have any better ideas. Are they seriously crowdsourcing solutions?🤔
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5000 As far as the eye can see. You’re beautiful, fierce, wonderful Melbourne.
#March4Justice
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Things women have been called by (female) Liberal ministers for highlighting the desperate need to address women’s economic insecurity: not “credible”, “misjudged” and (my new favourite) “disgraceful” for “politicising gender”.
#crediblewomen
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Really proud to have the first in my three part series on women’s economic security (really lack thereof) in
@SatPaper
today. It’s an important issue at a critical crossroads... and a crisis of homeless older women we should have seen coming.
Today's front page: "Robo-debt public servants now shaping the NDIS".
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The PM can't resist immediately pivoting to his point these behaviours have been around for a "long period of time" in response to
@zalisteggall
question if he will implement Set the Standard recs in full. Instead of leadership, we get a version of "not my fault".. again.
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David Speers to
@JoshFrydenberg
on
@InsidersABC
It’s a “drop in the bucket” in this budget for women compared to what you’re doing for male dominated sectors. Frydenberg: “Look at our record.” That’s precisely what
#crediblewomen
are doing..and they can’t take the scrutiny.
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“Not in a way that sets Australians against each other.” 🤔 Who does our PM think is doing that? If the target of that comment is women who have advocated for change, and if the implication is that by doing so they are being divisive, I call bullshit.
The PM has encouraged all Australians to step up to their "responsibility" to change the culture surrounding sexual harassment in the workplace, but not to do so "in a way that sets Australians against each other".
#auspol
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Two Australian women killed in 4 days: Tatiana Dokhotaru and Monique Lezsak.
@crikey_news
has removed the pay wall from my piece -- published earlier this year -- on the deafening silence & complacency in the face of these increasingly common tragedies.
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Who was on the Resource Review Group of subject matter experts for Respect Matters and *that* milkshake video? After spending $3.8 million (that’s 769 Cartier watches), at the very least the public has a right to know which “experts” signed it off.
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Throughout the sexism crisis that engulfed politics earlier this year, Morrison – the “daggy dad” – was never seen as one of the abusers himself. Banks’s latest allegations should put a stop to that. The sexism stems from the top.
@rachelrwithers
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Something tells me the women who came forward as part of Australia's first wave of
#MeToo
(and those who dared before that) need some love today. We see you. Your bravery helped make this week possible -- and will help make change possible. Many of these women paid a high price.
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Tomorrow marks one year since the Cabinet Women's Taskforce first met. What do we -- honestly -- think has been achieved in the year since?
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“It is important to remember that on a systemic and statistical level, we do not have a major problem with men being falsely imprisoned for sexual assault. We have a major problem with sexual assault.” Via
@JacquelineMaley
@smh
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Nour Haydar is a massive loss for the
@abcnews
She is a huge talent. Smart, compassionate. A star. The ABC will be lost with talented journalists like
@NourHaydar
leaving.
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Old school: Still love my
@SatPaper
print edition and morning coffee. Even better: seeing my opus on the undervaluing of women’s work in print. That’s the poor pay and conditions in highly feminised occupations that accounts for around 1/5 of the gender pay gap.
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Spin fail: first we had Scott Morrison’s “quiet Australians” and now, on
#IWD
, we have Sussan Ley’s “forgotten women”. Who, pray tell, forgot Australian women, who are now poorer and less healthy than when the Coalition came to power a decade ago? (1) via
@GuardianAus
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Every person who works in the sexual assault sector’s thought after reading PVO’s column in the Oz today:
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"She has now taken on a system that is designed to keep women like her quiet." Lisa Wilkinson speaking on The Project about
#BrittanyHiggins
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"I wasn't the only one." But you were the only minister responsible for aged care at the cricket at a time when the pandemic was ripping through aged care. And you were the only minister who was asked to attend a critical Senate oversight hearing at the same time.
#Colbeck
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“The Liberal Party seems incapable of understanding the source of women’s anger, the role it has played in stoking it, or that anger’s potential power.” Me in
@crikey_news
on this shameful week in politics.
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This
@AngusTaylorMP
#insiders
interview is a train wreck. Repeatedly says the test of Labor’s budget will be if it puts downward pressure on inflation. When asked by
@David_Speers
if he has any ideas to do that— can he name one thing — crickets.
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Let me tell you a story about the Morrison government’s cynical attempt to bully and silence charities that work with — and advocate on behalf of - the most vulnerable in our society. Me today
@SatPaper
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“Hannah Clarke’s death was supposed to be a turning point, but the system is still failing women – with fatal results.” Since I have lived in Australia, 9 years, I can recall multiple shocking supposed “turning points”. When will we actually address this?
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Group exclusively comprised of white, liberal men forms a group to “war game” ways to win back voters, including “white collar women” and “the Chinese diaspora”. 🧐via
@theage
@CroweDM
@paulsakkal
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Getting your kid to give you a massage while you ask tough questions (remotely) at select committees is the new bringing your newborn into the chamber to breastfeed. Long may it last!
It seems working from home has its benefits, as Senator Amanda Stoker found out today
@stoker_aj
#auspol
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Someone whose work I greatly admire described me as very “persistent” on the issue of women’s economic security. One of the nicest things anyone has ever said to me.
#persisterhood
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The Escaping Violence Payment as it was then called was a stunt by the Morrison government to have an “announceable” at another time of public anger about women’s safety. (1)
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The thing about Mick Fuller’s at least I’m “starting a debate” defence. No mate. You are not “starting a debate” about consent. We have been having this debate. Glad you’re paying attention. But you didn’t start anything. (And PS: the app is a terrible idea). No debate needed.
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According to this report, MP Andrew Laming’s taxpayer funded media advisor is issuing defamation threats against
@age_no_barrier
on his behalf. Let me repeat: His tax payer funded media advisor.
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“It’s not that the leaders who best managed the virus were all women. But those who bungled the response were all men, and mostly a particular type: authoritarian, vainglorious and blustering.” Via
@nytimes
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This is an act of domestic violence. Why isn't the Prime Minister directing those affected to 1800Respect, the national hotline for domestic violence? At times like this, some women will reach out -- they may not again for some time.
Devastating news out of Camp Hill. My heart goes out to the families and community going through this tragic time and the emergency responders confronting what would be a shattering scene. If you or anyone you know needs support, call Lifeline on 13 11 14.
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This is the take of a GP. Someone whose occupation bestows influence in the community — and we wonder why we have a problem with men’s violence. Completely lacking in any understanding of coercive control and the drivers of filicide. Also lacking in empathy.
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“Labor appears to be taking a big risk here, joining the Coalition in willingly forgoing the votes of young people, a cohort that has been repeatedly screwed over.” Via
@rachelrwithers
@THEMONTHLY
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For a piece I am working on about the undervaluing of women’s work, I have spoken to many women in aged care. All told me many have to work multiple shifts across different sites to survive financially. Most earn very little per hour. Work is casual and insecure. (1)
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The consultation for the Draft National Plan to End Violence Against Women ends tomorrow. The Morrison government has still not released the consultation reports. At Senate estimates, Anne Ruston misled, saying it was bc the reports had not been finalised. Monash says they have.
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When are we going to talk about rates of DV among serving police officers?
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Well look at this. Young women, and all women, are you feeling “rewarded” for your effort as
@JoshFrydenberg
tried to spin you are under a Coalition government, one that has barely dented the gender pay gap? Too clever by half Josh. Again. 🧐
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”When a citizen criticising an elected official can be sued by that official and potentially bankrupted by an adverse finding, the effects on democracy are profound.”
@bri_lee_writer
brilliantly connects ALL the dots re defamation/abuse of power.
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Most elected Republicans surely disagree with Trump’s actions. They dare not say so. They will try to pretend it never happened—as Don Draper says to Peggy Olson in Mad Men, “It will shock you how much it never happened.” Via
@davidfrum
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The first line of
@Kate_Jenkins_
#SetTheStandard
report: "This is Parliament. It should set the standard
for workplace culture, not the floor of what
culture should be." 🔥🔥🔥🔥
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Rest in Power: Dorothy Pitman Hughes, a pioneering Black feminist and community activist who co-founded Ms magazine with Gloria Steinem, has died age 84. Hughes founded the first shelter for battered women in New York City.
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Reminder: the Morrison govt & Jane Hume were forced to dump their last attempt to raid super (asking DV victims to fund their escape) after conceding they could not protect against unintended negative consequences every expert said the scheme would have.
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With respect
@JoshFrydenberg
you don't have women's backs, and you don't have a plan for women. Together, men will come back...women will get left behind.
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"As a mother" is how at Sussan Ley begins her defence of accusations Peter Dutton (and the Liberal Party) are playing politics with children. Can we talk about this expression and the long history of Conservative women using their motherhood as a tool for political credibility?
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Did you lose a bunny in Noosa? This little guy was found in the river. Looks very well loved. Please retweet and help reunite them with their family. Reclaim at Boardwalk Boats in Noosa.
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"Prosecutors object to scope of request in Toowoomba magistrates court, asking why alleged victim’s old messages would be relevant." Hmmm, whatever would an alleged rapist do if given unlimited access to a complainant's phone records?
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On the same day Brittany Higgins stood in front of the court talking about the asymmetry of the criminal justice system for victims of sexual violence, to see those women (most of whom would not leave the building to attend the March4Justice and hear from women) was galling.
Serious question re this Michelle Landry stuff: how stupid do the Coalition think Australian women are?
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I am done. How can the PM excuse this? What message is he sending by allowing someone like this to continue to walk the halls of power using taxpayer’s money to employ racists. Laming also uses taxpayer money to threaten women’s advocates with defamation.
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Did you know this year marks the 50th anniversary of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission (ACAC) granting women equal pay for work of equal value? Fifty years later, are we likely to see, under this new government, another push to close the gender pay gap?
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