The times, they really are changing.

This election showed clearly that people are ready for change. We want equality for everyone. Women should have choice in their bodies, decisions, future, the right to earn as much as men. We want people to marry who they love, gay or straight. We want people to be able to afford to go to the doctor without taking out a loan. We want a good economy and a fair chance at the future we dream about as children. 


And we want a government that can deliver that for us. 

Be proud, America, you're showing us the way forward.



And it's not just America that is moving forward. 

Locally we have a government that is moving forward with intentions to bring marriage equality to Canberra. We also have a greater representation of women in elected positions in the Legislative Assembly than we've seen before. We have a Chief Minister committed to making equality a reality. Which makes me incredibly proud to be a Canberran. 

We have a Prime Minister who is standing up and identifying misogynistic behavior from the Opposition and saying "enough", but is disappointingly not progressing marriage equality at a national level (I'm going to live in hope about that one). 

In Australian, and in the US, we are seeing a trend to reject entrenched hate and values that limit the rights of people based on their race, gender, sexual preference, education or economic position. 

This move forward gives me a long denied hope that we are getting better as humans. We are starting to see that love, passion, belief and community can beat out the lies, and negativity offered to us by the conservative agenda. 

I can finally believe that the children I'm yet to have will grow up in a world where it won't matter if they're boys or girls, gay or straight, they'll have the same opportunities regardless. I won't need to worry that when my daughter becomes prime minister, or president, that she'll be identified as "female" in articles about her, because her gender will be irrelevant, it will be on her performance and policy that she will be judged. 


When my daughters* are old enough, I will talk with them about how important it is to vote, because this time in 2012 women had to fight every single day just to keep the right to make their own medical decisions. I hope, so hard, that they'll look at me like I'm crazy, because in their future that concept is totally ridiculous, because we are truly all equal. 


*please note, I reject the possibility of having sons, not because it wouldn't be cool to have a boy, but because I'm pretty confident my punishment for giving my mum hell is ending up with a daughter just like me.