Updated: Cost of living in focus as Australia’s election race hits final stretch
Updated: 6:30pm (AEST)Sydney, AustraliaReuters Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison criss-crossed the country in a final day of campaigning, insisting he could still win Saturday’s election despite polls pointing to a change of government or hung parliament. Morrison and Labor Opposition leader Anthony Albanese targeted marginal seats in the final 48 hours of the six-week campaign […]
Fifth of men think media reports about gender pay gap are “fake news”
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation Efforts to close the gender pay gap risk stalling as countries recover from COVID-19, researchers said on Monday as a global poll showed almost a quarter of men thought the issue was “political correctness gone too far”. Although the survey spanning 28 countries revealed nearly eight in 10 people considered it […]
Women leaders driven offline and out of work by social media abuse
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation Pervasive abuse of women on social media is driving female leaders off the internet and, in some cases, out of a job, a conference heard on Thursday. Two years after the global #MeToo movement began with women finding strength in numbers by sharing stories of sexual harassment, virulent online abuse of […]
ESSAY: PRINCIPLED POLITICS?
BRUCE C. WEARNE takes a look at what today’s dramatic events reveal about the Australian political system…
Australian Christian Lobby welcomes new PM but thanks Rudd for commitment to homelessness, poverty, reconciliation and marriage
The Australian Christian Lobby said it would expect Labor under new Prime Minister Julia Gillard to “confirm its concern for the poor and the disadvantaged” along with “the values in society that proved attractive to many Christians throughout Australia” under former PM Kevin Rudd. Ms Gillard was sworn in as Australia’s 27th prime minister at […]