Fatima Payman
Senator, Australia
Australia
July 4, 2023
Australia: multicultural quotas on the cards for Labor
Labor would be forced to pick culturally diverse and Indigenous candidates under a quota plan that is expected to attract support from across the party at its national con
When will things improve for women in parliament? They already have
Let’s not sugar coat it, last week was a demoralising and often disturbing time to be a woman in Australian politics.
The long road to gender equality: overcoming institutional resistance to change
In recent weeks, media coverage out of Australia’s national Parliament has been dominated by the unedifying spectacle of political point-scoring over the leaked phone messages of former political staffer and victim of alleged rape, Brittany Higgins.
Australia: media don’t help. They enable violence against women and fuel the backlash
Nearly six years after the #MeToo movement arrived in Australia, and more than a decade after the launch of the first national plan to reduce violence against women, those
Carol Martin, first Aboriginal woman elected to any Australian parliament, given Order of Australia Medal
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March 2, 2023
Australia breaks records and tackles violence against women MPs
In 2022, Australia achieved record-breaking shares of women in both chambers of parliament, making it, along with New Zealand, the subregion with the highest average pr
Julia Banks on how politics fails women
When Liberal MP Julia Banks quit the Morrison government in 2018, her resignation was cited as an example of how hostile the political environment can be towards women.
But Banks’ story and her resignation happened to coincide with a landmark report: Respect @ Work.
December 16, 2022
Australia: Mark McGowan's new cabinet takes shape, with Jackie Jarvis and Sabine Winton joining ranks
First-term MP Jackie Jarvis and Wanneroo MP Sabine Winton have been elevated to Mark McGowan's WA cabinet.