Stephanie Peatling
Stephanie Peatling is a senior writer. She is a former Canberra Political Correspondent for the Sun-Herald.
Costs rise on raising children
Stephanie Peatling Cost of raising children up 50 per cent past five, new modelling shows.
Rudd deserves benefit of doubt on gay marriage backflip
Stephanie Peatling Kevin Rudd has joined the ranks of politicians who have changed their mind on same sex marriage.
Anger subsides as leaders reach NDIS compromise
Stephanie Peatling Imagine if this Parliament finished with national disability insurance scheme signed, sealed and delivered.
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...
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...
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.
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.
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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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.
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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Single parent families: the pain our politicians don't feel
Stephanie Peatling The budget has confirmed that families headed by a sole parent are seen as the least deserving.
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Light-bulb moments
Stephanie Peatling A straightforward campaign will help people switch on to an emissions trading scheme.
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For the love of children
Stephanie Peatling The true costs of childcare reforms are perhaps not as high as parents believe.
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Redrawing the battlelines
Stephanie Peatling Tony Abbott faces an uphill campaign to convince many female voters he's a new man.
