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How can we value Abbott's leave scheme when we don't value child care?

Stephanie Peatling Timing is a wonderful thing. Mother's Day is on Sunday and has had its usual build up via patronising advertisements and stories in which people talk about the enormous sacrifices their mothers made...

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Anger subsides as leaders reach NDIS compromise

Stephanie Peatling Imagine if this Parliament finished with national disability insurance scheme signed, sealed and delivered.

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PM goes for broke on disability scheme

Stephanie Peatling The Prime Minister is seeking to make the introduction of a national disability insurance scheme one of the hallmarks of her leadership.

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The brave and the foolhardy

Stephanie Peatling As fans of Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister would know, a "brave decision" was always arch civil service supremo Sir Humphrey Appleby's way of saying "Do not go there for that way lies almost...

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Time for women to make their vote count

Stephanie Peatling Given that women make up just over half the voting population, it makes sense that parties want our votes.

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Echoes of Harradine in Madigan's meddling on abortion

Stephanie Peatling Every once in a while they pop up, these old white men who feel they have a God-given right to meddle with women's bodies.

Gay rights can't get numbers

Stephanie Peatling A CONSERVATIVE prime minister has stared down critics in his own party, allowed a conscience vote and is now on the cusp of introducing equal marriage rights for gay couples in England and Wales.

Equality? The 64-day question

Stephanie Peatling WOMEN must work an extra 64 days each year to earn the same as their male colleagues, new figures show.

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PM's timely swipe at sexist treatment

Stephanie Peatling Gillard knows the tough reality that confronts women in politics: the treatment is different but don't talk about it because it's not worth the backlash.

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Happy Diamond Jubilee! Now where's our public holiday?

Stephanie Peatling To mark 60 years since Queen Elizabeth came to the throne I think we, as a loyally serving country, should have a public holiday today.

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Matter of life and deathly silence

Stephanie Peatling This week there was a huge international conference in London about contraception and family planning.

Gillard wins fight, but at a cost

Stephanie Peatling PRESS gallery journalists and political observers often comment that the best version of Julia Gillard comes out when she is fighting.

Smith should be commended for dragging the ADF into the 21st century

Stephanie Peatling Stephen Smith should be commended for his continuing efforts to drag the kicking and screaming ADF into the 21st century when it comes to the treatment of women within its ranks.

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Prime objective: rebuilding the PM

Stephanie Peatling JULY 1 is the date on which Labor's hopes are pinned. On that day, the government is confident the sky will not collapse when the carbon price comes into force and the voting public will start to...

Wong steps up pressure on Coalition's spending plans

Stephanie Peatling The Coalition's budget is $9 billion in the red, the government will claim today as it increases pressure on the opposition to detail its spending plans.

Abbott goes after the women vote

Stephanie Peatling Tony Abbott and women. Is there a problem or isn't there?

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Why are women hell bent on destroying each other?

Stephanie Peatling Parenting websites and mothers' groups are the next generation of high school where everything people say is judged, discussed and used in evidence against them as factions take shape and shift.

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