Women have been disproportionately disadvantaged in this pandemic – and the only way to fix that is to bring more more women, especially Coalition women, into parliament.
Cases of women breastfeeding in parliament continue to be worldwide news, which shows this is still a rarity.
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Australia's parliament has become more family-friendly in the last decade, but women with families are still finding it tough. Other democracies can provide some inspiration.
Independent Kerryn Phelps’s roll call of “decency, integrity, humanity” harked back to the women who fought hard for female enfranchisement in the early 20th century.
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The early suffragists would be rolling in their graves to know that women joining the ranks of parliamentarians barely changed their male colleagues’ outlook and demeanour at all.