Elections Parlementaires en Australie
Les femmes représentent 25% du parlement avec 37 sièges sur 150, et bien qu'il n'y ait pas de système légalisé des quotas, les partis politiques l’ont volontairement mis en place.
L'Australie a eu une seule femme leader dans cinq de ces six Etats et deux dans le petit territoire de la capitale. Quelques-unes des femmes qui se sont levés dans la politique de l'Etat ont passé des moments difficiles dans leurs carrières politiques.
Il y a un grand nombre de femmes candidates dans cette élection. Ici, nous vous présentons quelques-unes d'entre elles à travers des articles de presse (disponible uniquement en anglais):
Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young
Fiona Patten, Leader of the Sex Party
Bridget McKenzie, National Party Senator for Victoria
Kate Ellis, Federal member for Adelaide
Anna Burke, Speaker of the House of Representatives
Senator Chistine Milne, Leader of the Australian Greens
Cate Faehrmann, lead Senate candidate for the Greens in NSW
Kelly O'Dwyer, Federal Member for Higgins
Jenny Macklin, Minister for Families
Julie Bishop, Deputy Leader of the Federal Liberty Party
Teresa Gambaro, Federal Member for Brisbane
Pour plus d'informations visitez la base de données mondiales des quotas de femmes et Parline: base de données sur les parlements nationaux
Women still outnumbered where it counts, Australia
That much-publicised milestone of political gender equality in the US? 20 per cent. Yes. Being outnumbered four to one is a milestone for women in the US Senate. Closer to home, Australia granted women the right to vote and to seek election in 1902, but it took nearly 22 years for a woman to enter federal Parliament, and more than a century to have any woman as prime minister.
Today, less than one-third of our MPs are women and women make up less than a quarter of the cabinet. In the ''year of the woman'', men continue to dominate the policy decisions that affect us all.
Gillard, Thatcher and the politics of being a woman
The denigration of the first female Australian prime minister on the basis of her gender echoes that endured by the first female prime minister of Great Britain.
While Julia Gillard has suffered the juvenile attacks of men from the political right, Margaret Thatcher endured them from men and women on the political and academic left. Thatcher was ultimately toppled by men, exclusively, to the left of her. The point of origin of the attack on the spectrum was different in each case, but common to both was the use of gender to denigrate and delegitimize.
Left-wing journalist Polly Toynbee asked infamously: “is Margaret Thatcher a woman?” Right-wing DJs interrogate the sexuality of Julia Gillard’s partner and some (big-L) Liberals mock her body shape. The association of gender and sexual orientation with under-performance or absurdity is strikingly similar in both cases.
Push for a woman to replace Ferguson, Australia
A political lobby group is pushing for a female candidate to replace long-term Labor MP Martin Ferguson when he steps down from politics in September.
The 59-year-old announced that he would not contest his safe inner-Melbourne seat of Batman at the upcoming election on Wednesday, prompting calls from Emily’s List, a group pushing for greater representation of women in parliament.
National co-convenor Tanja Kovac told Fairfax Media it was important to have a woman step up for the role, which has been held by Ferguson since 1996.
'Australia's Sarah Palin' and One Nation Candidate Aborts Electi
tephanie Banister, dubbed as the "Sarah Palin of Australia", has dropped out of the election race on August 10 after committing several interview blunders and calling Islam a country.
The 27-year-old One Nation candidate was campaigning for only two days when she gave an interview to Seven News Network. Her interview video went viral on the Internet and viewers tagged her as "Australia's Sarah Palin" who was also mocked for her interview mistakes when she contested for US vice-presidential position in 2008.
Australia's Julia Gillard reveals what she thought when she gave
As prime minister, Julia Gillard remained instinctively private, consistently contained and, for a figure so much in the public eye, oddly enigmatic.
But in an interview with the Melbourne-based magazine the Monthly, conducted during her final period as Labor leader, the former Australian prime minister has reflected candidly on gender politics, and on “that” misogyny speech which generated headlines around the world and became a viral sensation on the internet.
Why is there only one woman in Tony Abbott's cabinet? Australia
Women in politics are treated differently. To be a good politician, you have to be capable of getting on with the job in the face of criticism. But I am deeply worried that the level of gender-based attacks female politicians have been subjected to in recent years sets the bar too high for women to want to participate in government.
Women still outnumbered where it counts, Australia
That much-publicised milestone of political gender equality in the US? 20 per cent. Yes. Being outnumbered four to one is a milestone for women in the US Senate. Closer to home, Australia granted women the right to vote and to seek election in 1902, but it took nearly 22 years for a woman to enter federal Parliament, and more than a century to have any woman as prime minister.
Today, less than one-third of our MPs are women and women make up less than a quarter of the cabinet. In the ''year of the woman'', men continue to dominate the policy decisions that affect us all.
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Gillard, Thatcher and the politics of being a woman
The denigration of the first female Australian prime minister on the basis of her gender echoes that endured by the first female prime minister of Great Britain.
While Julia Gillard has suffered the juvenile attacks of men from the political right, Margaret Thatcher endured them from men and women on the political and academic left. Thatcher was ultimately toppled by men, exclusively, to the left of her. The point of origin of the attack on the spectrum was different in each case, but common to both was the use of gender to denigrate and delegitimize.
Left-wing journalist Polly Toynbee asked infamously: “is Margaret Thatcher a woman?” Right-wing DJs interrogate the sexuality of Julia Gillard’s partner and some (big-L) Liberals mock her body shape. The association of gender and sexual orientation with under-performance or absurdity is strikingly similar in both cases.
Read the article
Push for a woman to replace Ferguson, Australia
A political lobby group is pushing for a female candidate to replace long-term Labor MP Martin Ferguson when he steps down from politics in September.
The 59-year-old announced that he would not contest his safe inner-Melbourne seat of Batman at the upcoming election on Wednesday, prompting calls from Emily’s List, a group pushing for greater representation of women in parliament.
National co-convenor Tanja Kovac told Fairfax Media it was important to have a woman step up for the role, which has been held by Ferguson since 1996.
Read the article
'Australia's Sarah Palin' and One Nation Candidate Aborts Electi
tephanie Banister, dubbed as the "Sarah Palin of Australia", has dropped out of the election race on August 10 after committing several interview blunders and calling Islam a country.
The 27-year-old One Nation candidate was campaigning for only two days when she gave an interview to Seven News Network. Her interview video went viral on the Internet and viewers tagged her as "Australia's Sarah Palin" who was also mocked for her interview mistakes when she contested for US vice-presidential position in 2008.
Read the article
Australia's Julia Gillard reveals what she thought when she gave
As prime minister, Julia Gillard remained instinctively private, consistently contained and, for a figure so much in the public eye, oddly enigmatic.
But in an interview with the Melbourne-based magazine the Monthly, conducted during her final period as Labor leader, the former Australian prime minister has reflected candidly on gender politics, and on “that” misogyny speech which generated headlines around the world and became a viral sensation on the internet.
Read the article
Why is there only one woman in Tony Abbott's cabinet? Australia
Women in politics are treated differently. To be a good politician, you have to be capable of getting on with the job in the face of criticism. But I am deeply worried that the level of gender-based attacks female politicians have been subjected to in recent years sets the bar too high for women to want to participate in government.