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Libby Lyons - female-dominated industries need more men
We recognise the need to attract more women into skilled, technical roles, but we are not doing anything to encourage men into female-dominated industries and jobs.
We recognise the need to attract more women into skilled, technical roles, but we are not doing anything to encourage men into female-dominated industries and jobs.
What's the best thing to do when you are faced with one of those gut-wrenching decisions like whether to quit your job or have a baby or end a relationship?
When the political going gets tough, politicians get tough on crime, sighs Farrah Tomazin.
The distress of a talented woman who could no longer bear the load of teaching our littlest kids should make all of us stop and think.
The New York Times ran an editorial this week calling on Republican vice-presidential candidate Mike Pence to convince Trump to stand down
Nobody died here, to our knowledge. If you did die, please backdate your new census form accordingly.
For decades, belief in The Market as divine presence – guaranteeing fairness and quality and providing a universal template for everything. Now, at last, this is starting to reverse.
Clinton. May. Merkel. Young girls today can point to role models at the highest levels of leadership in politics. But in the religious sphere, women's leadership remains contentious.
Two years ago then Prime Minister Tony Abbott was unequivocal in his rejection of the need for a federal ICAC.
The backflips. The exaggeration. The tiny hands.
Badly behaved children are ruining our international reputation and our human rights record: one runs NT, the other is our Immigration Minister
Copyright infringements are not just limited to music and film.
On Sydney's streets the fuel of choice is testosterone and the rules are set by the stupid and psychotic.To survive, you must become one of them.
It can seem bloody hard to find reasons to be cheerful.
Taking on Australia's big banks is no easy matter and here's why.
To say that statements by Reserve Bank officials are usually delphic is a cliche, even among those who know very little either of Greek antiquities or of Brewer's dictionary of phrase and allusion.
It is not just the census website that doesn't work as promised, the whole idea that outsourcing tasks to "the market" has not lived up to expectations.
There is a way for Australia to escape the asylum-seeker impasse.
The ill-treatment of refugees on Nauru is not only morally wrong, but it violates countless principles of international law.
Because of Pokmeon's success there will be more games that combine apps and virtual reality with being active in the real world
Hanif Mohammad,Bob Kiley, Richard Holland, Pete Fountain
In the wake of Australian swimmer Mack Horton's altercation with Chinese swimmer Sun Yang, China's state-owned tabloid newspaper, the Global Times (circulation 2 million), had plenty to say.
Cheaper goods and better services are just some of the reasons it can pay to reveal ourselves online.
The new voting system was supposed to prevent senators being elected on very small percentages of the primary vote. So did Hercules Turnbull clean out the unrepresentative swill in the Augean stables? No.
I slept very well this week knowing that Donald Trump was now the champion of working mothers.
Journalist Stan Grant explains his love of literature adn why he doesn't want to go into politics.
At its semi-autonomous weirdest the Tesla doesn't require you to do anything with your feet or hands.
We sow the seeds of sexism and gender stereotyping as long as we continue to plant future generations in tainted soil.
What should we think of the massive upgrade of Australia's most famous building asks architect Philip Drew.
Imagine the world as seen by a peasant in the year 1016. Let us call him Alfred.