Farewell to Julia

So the men in blue ties won out and Julia Gillard is our Prime Minister no more. There will be breast-beating, analysis, debate and miles of print lamenting the demise of Australia’s first female PM. But whatever the long term outcome, we should be grateful we finally got to have a woman in the top…

Play the ball, not the (wo)man

Recent ongoing vituperative comments about women in power, and most particularly, Julia Gillard have made me wonder:  just how ‘equal’ is Australian society? I keep hearing comments from people and reading commentary in the media that suggest we have a long way to go yet to achieve a true gender balance in our culture. What…