Marian Sawer

Apr 11, 2024 | springerprofessional.de | Marian Sawer |Maria Maley

This open access book shows how the #MeToo movement and revelations of sexual harassment and bullying have spurred on reform of the parliamentary workplace in four Westminster countries – Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the UK. Long-standing conventions included extreme power imbalances between parliamentarians and staff and a lack of professionalised employment practices.

Feb 14, 2024 | theconversation.com | Julie Smith |Marian Sawer

Childcare is probably Australia’s largest industry, most of it unpaid. We know this because of Australian Bureau of Statistics time use surveys. Since 1992 these surveys have recorded what thousands of Australians say they do with their time in diaries kept for 48 hours. But if the Bureau of Statistics proceeds with its current plans for scaling down the survey we soon won’t be able to tell.

Jan 14, 2024 | newcastleherald.com.au | Marian Sawer

Now that the Voice referendum has been defeated, the digital campaigning organisation, Advance, has moved on to a new campaign - for the legal protection of Australia Day. It claims this is the only way to protect Australia Day from the "activists who hate our country". It wants legislation like last year's Private Member's Bill put forward by the LNP Member for Bowman, which would prevent the January 26 date being changed without a referendum.