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Julia Gillard Next Generation Internship Report 2020-21

August 12, 2021

In her report The Missing Women of Australian Politics: How violence against women creates barriers to female representation, 2020/21 Julia Gillard Next Generation intern Medha Majumdar explores the negative impact of violence against women in pursuit...

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Violence against women is a barrier to women entering Australian Politics: Julia Gillard Next Generation Intern Report

August 12, 2021

Violence against women is a barrier to women entering Australian Politics The recent revelations of sexual harassment and assault within Parliament House in Canberra has exposed political organisations as unsafe workplaces, where violence against women...

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FEDERAL BUDGET 2021: ARTS AND CULTURE - IMPACT ON WOMEN

July 13, 2021

There is bipartisan agreement that the closure of the $111 billion (6.4% of GDP) arts and culture sector during COVID, with its extensive cancellation of events and performances, had an unprecedented impact. The closures...

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Who is defining merit?

May 08, 2021

Recent reports that some in the Liberal party are finally considering the introduction of quotas has generated some discussion within EMILY’s List. Helen Creed was involved in negotiating the introduction of Affirmative Action (AA) Rules...

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Cultural change takes time - our work is not done.

April 28, 2021

Paul Keating backed in the formation of EMILY's List Australia as Prime Minister. It was hard to dismiss the logic of Joan Kirner and the other women who identified the need to break the bias...

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Quotas – how affirmative action changed the Labor Party for the better

March 31, 2021

Parliaments are traditionally male bastions of power, but you would think that in all the years since women’s suffrage in Australia there would be greater change. The right for women to be elected to...

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