Look at what’s happened to Australian women of colour with political ambitions. It’s dispiriting,but we must live in hope.
In our quickly changing tech-driven landscape,a whole new suite of skills is now required to be a successful leader.
Some votes can be passed with murmurs of assent,and some with shouts of dismay. Three decades ago,a historic vote at the Labor National Conference was met with joy and dancing.
A doll in the likeness of Wilma Mankiller,the first woman chief of the Cherokee Nation,has been hailed by tribal citizens,and lamented for its inaccuracies.
Alan Joyce and Philip Lowe are wildly dissimilar. Even so,both the institutions they have left have been accused of operating without sufficient sensitivity.
What passes for success – or even progress – is still a low bar.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said:“Michele’s will be an important job at an important time.”
Radji Beach on Bangka Island is peaceful and beautiful. But it is also the scene of the largest-ever loss of Australian servicewomen in a single event.
It is bitterly ironic that our outsized interest in female leaders,particularly beautiful ones,is the very thing we punish them for in the end.
The Sydney-based Russian-born portfolio manager has been attracted to the diverse and unconventional since she was a girl – and it’s been serving her well.
The tribute is the first step in correcting decades of oversight that meant the parliamentary triangle had more statues of kelpies than women.