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Today Women for Election Australia took our cause to the halls of Parliament House in Canberra. Our CEO Licia Heath and Jenny Morris our Founder and Chair walked for 10km through the Senate offices meeting and greeting the female Senators and thanking them for being a...

Merit was the key word mentioned when Prime Minister Scott Morrison said those at the NSW State Liberal conference on Saturday should get more women in Parliament. “I want to see more women in our parliament and I want to see the NSW division work with me and my team...

Have you seen this political campaign ad from #ValeriePlame who's running for Congress in New Mexico? Quite the 'story of self'! If you are thinking of running one day, have you worked out how to tell your story? https://www.youtube.com/watch…

Women and men will make up equal numbers in the Australian Senate for the first time with the anticipated arrival of a former Liberal MP. Sarah Henderson was pre-selected for the Senate spot vacated by former minister Mitch Fifield, after losing the Victorian seat of...

Women are not spending as much time working the political circuit as men, which may be limiting women's ability to get ahead in their careers, says Democratic consultant Adrienne Elrod and Republican strategist Susan Del Percio. This article from Know your Value is...

Ruth McGowan is the author of Get Elected, the first national guide on how to run for office.  Ruth shared her practical experience of political campaigning at our program EQUIP on 24th August 2019. Ruth has more than 25 years of experience working in state and local...

Over the weekend in Biarritz, a small seaside town on southwestern France’s Basque coast, two Nobel laureates addressed the G7 leaders, urging them to get rid of discriminatory gender laws that remain in their statute books and enforce equal rights...

Thank you to everyone who attended and supported our 3rd Annual Conference, Women in the House: INSPIRE on 23rd August 2019 and our first EQUIP Program on 24th August 2019. The WFEA team are in awe of the power of emboldened, courageous women, when they come together...

More women than ever are seeking information on a future in politics, but the success rate is still low. A conference at NSW parliament house will get underway in Sydney on Friday, bringing together MPs and women hoping to pave a way for themselves in politics. Watch...

Licia Heath is the CEO of Women for Election Australia (WFEA) a not-for-profit, non-partisan organisation encouraging and supporting more women to succeed in Australian politics. The former Wentworth by-election candidate began her role at the WFEA last December, and...

Major mainstream digital news outlets have been criticized in a fresh report for not doing enough to ensure women are represented in articles as often as men, particularly for topics like business and politics.

It’s Barbie’s 60th Birthday this year and she has gone into politics!    

One prominent Indigenous woman says today is a significant day in Australia's history. Cobble cobble woman Megan Davis is a Professor of law and vice-chancellor at the University of New South Wales, who co-authored the Uluru statement from the heart. She says...

Strathfield MP Jodi McKay has won the leadership of the NSW Labor Party, and pledged to rebuild "faith and trust" with NSW voters. Ms McKay comfortably defeated her rival Kogarah MP Chris Minns, securing 60 .5 per cent of the overall vote in a historic leadership...

Jostling has already begun for the deputy leadership of the NSW Labor Party, as MPs prepare to cast their vote for their preferred candidate for the top job. The month-long leadership race between Strathfield MP Jodi McKay and Kogarah MP Chris Minns will be finalised...

The lack of female federal MPs could be due in part to women being held back from climbing the political staffer career ladder, says the author of a study that reveals women start lower in the staffer hierarchy and progress at a slower rate than men.    

Susan Templeman was collecting gardening supplies at Bunnings when she finally fell over the line in the Blue Mountains electorate of Macquarie. For 16 days, the Labor MP ­focused on her garden as she waited on tenterhooks to see whether she had seen off the challenge...

"Globally, only three nations – Rwanda, Cuba and Bolivia – have reached or surpassed gender parity. Rwanda, despite having a lower number of women in parliament (59) than larger countries, clocks in with the highest female majority at 56%." Australia is 48th on the...

Kirsten Gillibrand, presidential candidate 2020 responds to the ‘but what about men’ question. “Yes, you’re already there,” Gillibrand reiterated. “It’s not meant to be exclusionary, it’s meant to be inclusionary. ... We just want to add a couple chairs for the rest...

Announcing his shadow ministry line-up, Mr Albanese said he was "very pleased" to have been able to achieve a gender balance. Mr Albanese said his frontbench had 12 men and 12 women, "reflecting the balance in Australian society". This included 11 women in the shadow...

Australia's newly minted Minister for Women has been advocating behind the scenes for women in the Liberal Party for decades. But Marise Payne has her work cut out for her in this new job. Senator Payne, who is also the Foreign Minister, was sworn in this week and has...