January 30, 2022

"A goal without a plan is just a wish." Antoine de Saint-Exupéry   As a working mother, I know that planning is everything. It’s about expecting the unexpected to happen and having a solution in case it does. As a doctor in the emergency...

January 26, 2022

Covid do-it-yourself tests: Northern beaches pensioners urged to have patience in RATs search.

January 23, 2022

My commitment to hospital staff, growing community and where you’ll find me.

January 21, 2022

January 15, 2022

How a movement that began in earnest a decade ago, built on grassroots representation, could affect at least eight seats at the next election. By Margo Kingston. The movement started, really, in 2012. A group of friends steeped in community building, second-wave feminism and rural...

December 27, 2021

Earlier this year, following a string of attacks on women in the Australian Parliament House in Canberra, both verbal and physical, a popular female TV host asked rhetorically whether the easiest place in the country to rape a woman is in Parliament House. Now,...

December 20, 2021

December 17, 2021

Independent Member for Warringah Zali Steggall OAM and Independent candidate for Mackellar Dr Sophie Scamps have claimed victory following Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s decision to end the PEP 11 licence. Ms Steggall has questioned whether the Prime Minister’s announcement to kill off the Petroleum...

December 13, 2021

Ahead of next year’s federal election, female independents have been announcing their candidacies in electorates across the country, primarily in blue-ribbon seats in Sydney and Melbourne. These candidates are launching campaigns in some of Australia’s wealthiest electorates, often where moderate members of the Liberal...

December 12, 2021

Voters will be asked to trust a growing field of independent candidates to decide who forms government if there’s a hung Parliament after the federal election, with prominent challengers declining to say whether they would back Labor or the Liberals. Independents are naming climate...

December 10, 2021

Northern Beaches doctor Sophie Scamps has declared her candidacy for the federal seat of Mackellar with a campaign launch at Avalon Beach last weekend. A GP at Narrabeen and former Mona Vale Hospital emergency department doctor, Dr Scamps is a founder of environmental movement...