Essays

Hear Virginia on Future Woman with Helen McCabe

What is feminine power? It’s not a trick question. But think about it too long, and soon you’re caught in...

The Woman President: Leadership, Law and Legacy for Women Based on Experiences from South and Southeast Asia Ramona Vijayarasa Oxford...

With a title like this, of course I was going to dive into Feminism and the Making of a Child...

On 21 June, 2022, Dame Quentin Bryce launched the Australian Women Changemakers exhibition, at the Museum of Australian Democracy (MoAD),...

On 21 June, 2022, Dame Quentin Bryce launched the Australian Women Changemakers exhibition, at the Museum of Australian Democracy (MoAD),...

When I was asked by the Museum of Australian Democracy (MoAD), back in 2021, to work with them on their...

Brittany Higgins at the beginning of what she believed would be her 'dream job', working as a government staffer at...

When Enid Lyons and Dorothy Tangney stepped over the threshold into Parliament House in 1943 they were late. Not by...

A media bonanza for the shelias’ The Turnbull to Morrison years proved to be a bonanza for women in politics,...

Television journalist Jamila Mujahid will never forget the day she broke the biggest story of her life. And she did...

The essay, "A Glorious Kill & a Grubby Demise", was published in "ANIMALS", by Finlay Lloyd Publishers, October 2008. The...

Quarterly Essay Issue 30

I am following Ariya Nani, an elegant and beautiful Swiss Buddhist nun, up rickety bamboo stairs in a rambling forest...