Category: Womens Agenda

Former Olympic champion Jo Clark OAM has been appointed General Manager at global software company BrainStorm Software. Clark was a member of the gold medal winning Australian water polo team at the Sydney Olympics in 2000. After her sporting career, Clark diversified into the marketing and events

In our series about aged care, we’ve been exploring some different and important ways of thinking about growing older and potential care and support needs, how we need to start normalising our conversations about it, and how women shouldn’t need to carry the full burden.  If it’s

Content warning: This article contains details of domestic violence and murder. Horror and heartbreak continues to spread around the world after news of Olympic runner Agnes Tirop’s murder in her home last Wednesday in Iten, Kenya.  On Thursday, police arrested her husband, Ibrahim Kipkemoi Rotich, in the

The NSW government will spend nearly $500 million to help tackle domestic and family violence and establish extra women’s refuges across the state. The funding package, announced on Tuesday, is the single biggest investment in domestic and family violence in the state’s history. The investment includes $426.6

Yesterday I wrote about the gall of Barnaby Joyce saying he won’t be held “hostage” by the Liberal party pushing for Australia to commit to more ambitious targets on addressing climate change. I shared disgust at Joyce and others in the Nationals declaring they need more time

Yamatji and Noongar woman Dorinda Cox has become the first Aboriginal woman to represent Western Australia in the federal senate. Cox was sworn in to the senate on Monday, after winning the Greens’ preselection to replace retired senator, Rachel Siewert. Cox’s entrance to the parliament takes the

YWCA Australia has just kicked off Feminist Book Week this week, celebrating feminist authors and aiming to nurture young and diverse voices until the 22nd October. The week aims to start conversations on diversity and highlight the importance of intersectional voices in “to-read lists”. Event organiser

2021 has been a hell of a year (to put it mildly) and then, on top of global chaos, we had certain individuals icing the cake with egregious displays of sexism. Tomorrow night, the Annual Ernies Awards will return in full force to celebrate/commiserate the extent some

Women fleeing domestic violence will now be eligible for a new, one-off payment of up to $5000 under a two-year trial established by the federal government. Under the new scheme, women will receive up to $1,500 in cash, with the remainder of the amount available for goods

NSW Premier, Dominic Perrottet announced the happy news on Facebook last night that he and his wife Helen are expecting their seventh child with a joke about needing another photo frame. “Exciting family news,’’ he wrote. “Our family photo wall is going to need another frame!

Following a career break some women and men can come up against hurdles that prevent them from having a smooth transition back into the workforce. But these experiences don’t mean they lack ambition for their futures. According to the Women’s Agenda’s 2021 Ambition Report, 46 per cent

Barnaby Joyce needs more time. And apparently addressing climate change in Australia really is all about him. Emerging from a failed Nationals party room discussion on whether to agree to a net-zero emissions target, Joyce declared that “we won’t be held hostage to what other people wish”,