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Anna Hough

@annahough.bsky.social
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On Ngunnawal and Ngambri land. Interested in gender equality, policy, Australian politics and cake. Personal account, views are my own. Hough rhymes with tough!

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Anna Hough @annahough.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I didn’t post because the articles were in the wrong newspapers, you didn’t work for a minister, you weren’t raped inside Parliament House, /5
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Anna Hough @annahough.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I didn’t post about the NDAs you were twice asked to sign as part of the settlement you fought for from the Albanese Government. /4
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Anna Hough @annahough.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I didn’t post about the bullying and demotion that followed your disclosure to managers at Parliament House in 2021. /3
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Anna Hough @annahough.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I didn’t post about your rapes by a staffer in a senator’s office when you were twenty-one and twenty-two. 2/9
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Anna Hough @annahough.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
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Ex-Democrats leader urges teals to avoid forming party
A former leader of the Australian Democrats, whose party appealed to disaffected moderate Liberal voters, is urging the teals to resist the idea of forming a political party.
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Anna Hough @annahough.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Read about how you can support this important campaign to prevent Australian workers from being silenced at the link below. Now it’s over the Australian Government … /3 share.google/UvhmdV2ya1mg...
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NDA CAMPAIGN: Our Silence is Not for Sale | Working Women's Centre Australia
Through the voices of victim-survivors, the Our Silence Is Not For Sale video campaign highlights the real impact of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) in cases of workplace sexual harassment and discri...
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Anna Hough @annahough.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
NDAs are often misused to silence workers who have been sexually assaulted, sexually harassed, or discriminated against. Find out more by watching our campaign video: /2 youtu.be/vUVVUjV_BEA?...
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Our Silence is Not for Sale campaign
YouTube video by Working Women's Centre Australia
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Anna Hough @annahough.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
I’m proud to be one of the lived experience advocates who are part of the Working Women’s Centre Australia’s #OurSilenceIsNotForSale campaign, which calls on the Australian Government to make laws against the misuse of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs). /1
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Anna Hough @annahough.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Not only are these kiwi fruit red, but they are cannibals 😳
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Anna Hough @annahough.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
This reform wasn’t only far too late to help me as a young worker. It’s only just in time to help my children. The delay wasn’t harmless. It just shifted the cost onto young workers for decades. That’s what political inaction does.
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Anna Hough @annahough.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
This news made my day! 🎉 Junior pay rates were a key reason I became politically active in the 90s and joined the Australian Democrats - the only party with a policy to abolish junior rates then. It should not have taken this long. Next step: Abolish junior rates for under 18s.
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Anna Hough @annahough.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Let’s go back to using the phrase “the truth” instead of “my truth”. If you’re telling the truth, start owning it. It’s not just about your perception or your feelings. It’s about the reality of what happened to you. Don’t let anyone gaslight you into saying otherwise.
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Anna Hough @annahough.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Folks, what’s happening in Farrer on 9 May is a by-election, not a bi-election. And I have no idea about the sexuality of any of the candidates who are running. #auspol
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Anna Hough @annahough.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
“The Epstein files … offer the public an education in the ideology of that elite in which some people mattered too much to them to be held accountable and others mattered so little that crimes against them were of no significance.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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The one thing everyone gets wrong about feminism
People love to declare the death of the women’s movement, pointing to the ‘failure’ of #MeToo or the Epstein files, but don’t give up the fight just yet, writes Rebecca Solnit
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Anna Hough @annahough.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
www.change.org/p/ban-the-nd...
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📣 Petition Update: We’ve Launched banthenda.com – Now We Push for Federal Reform
Dear Supporters, Because of your support, this movement has grown beyond a petition. I’m proud to share that we have now officially launched our national lived-experience campaign: www.banthenda.com ...
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Anna Hough @annahough.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Bullying in the APS doesn’t just affect victims. It leads to bad policies that harm all Australians. But it’s legal for departments to cover it up by pressuring staff who seek compensation to sign NDAs. Sign our petition to ban this practice. Link in comments. www.themandarin.com.au/309403-a-shi...
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‘A shit show’: How normalised bullying turbocharged robodebt’s illegality
ANALYSIS | A sidelined, institutionalised, and bullied administrative cohort, turning a blind eye to cling to their jobs. The story of a whatever-it-takes culture laid bare by NACC evidence.
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Anna Hough @annahough.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
When it comes to International Women’s Day moments, meeting @jacindaardern.bsky.social is going to be hard to top! Best IWD ever! And another fabulous #AllAboutWomen festival! #iwd2026
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Anna Hough @annahough.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
- International Celebrate Women (But Ignore The Ones Who Make Too Many People Feel Uncomfortable) Day Are we really okay with this? I’m not. Let’s make IWD for all women again. Share the platforms, share the microphones, make IWD genuinely inclusive. /2 #IWD2026
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Anna Hough @annahough.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
International Women’s Day started in revolutionary and labour movements. Somewhere along the way it became: - International Women Who Can Afford $250 Tickets Day - International Women Who Get Paid A Lot To Sit On Boards Day - International Cupcakes And Tokenism Day /1
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God @thegodshow.com · 04/03/2026
WAR CRIMES DON'T HIDE SEX CRIMES! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!!
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Anna Hough @annahough.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
No one who experiences sexual assault or sexual harassment at work should be pressured into signing an NDA. The Australian Government and other states and territories need to follow Victoria’s lead and ban the misuse of NDAs. /2
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Anna Hough @annahough.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Corrective Services NSW accused of protecting perpetrators and silencing victims. "It's appalling that CSNSW tries to buy women's silence with these NDAs," said Kirsty Prince. “When it comes time to negotiate my payout, I will refuse to sign an NDA.”💪👏 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
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'Their dirty secrets, not mine': Former prison officers speak out about NSW system
Current and former NSW prison officers describe what they say is a toxic workplace culture and a system that shields officers accused of serious misconduct, rather than holding them accountable. They ...
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Anna Hough @annahough.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The event organisers who did all the legwork? If we’re serious about intersectionality, it’s worth asking these questions. Who gets to be in the room matters. /4
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Anna Hough @annahough.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
But I was often too busy in March doing that work to attend events myself. Even if I had time, there were many I couldn’t afford tickets to, despite earning an above-average salary. Who else is being excluded in this way? The women who baked the IWD cupcakes? /3
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Anna Hough @annahough.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
When I worked as a researcher at Parliament House, I spent years providing data on women’s representation in parliaments to politicians across the political spectrum. That material was used in many of their IWD speeches. /2
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Anna Hough @annahough.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Dear International Women’s Day event organisers - Many IWD events feature excellent speakers and important conversations. But when attending those conversations comes with rock concert level ticket prices, even for livestream options, access becomes limited. #IWD2026 /1
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Anna Hough @annahough.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Albo: When women criticise my opponents they are great. Also Albo: When women criticise me they are “difficult”.
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Anna Hough @annahough.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
The PM: Women who criticise my opponents are wonderful. Women who criticise me are “difficult”.
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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Gynaecology's open secret. Surgeon repeatedly removed women's tissue & organs for “severe” #endometriosis. Pathology showed little/no trace of it. Multiple complaints by clinicians & patients to hospital & AHPRA. Nothing happened. Our 7-month #4Corners investigation. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
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Women 'let down by the system': Simon Gordon was gynaecology's open secret
Complaints had been made about this gynaecologist for years. Only when hospital management discovered that Four Corners was looking into his practice, did it start investigating further.
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Anna Hough @annahough.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Are David Speers and Tony Burke twinning today? Both are rocking gelled grey hair, glasses, grey suits, light coloured shirts, and brown shoes. #GenderBalancedFashionCommentary #insiders
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Anna Hough @annahough.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Is it the right time for an Australian republic yet? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
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Breaking: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been arrested
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has reportedly been arrested at his eastern England home. Follow live.
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NPR @npr.org · 17/02/2026
BREAKING NEWS: The Rev. Jesse Jackson was a lifelong civil rights advocate until his death Tuesday at the age of 84.
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Longtime civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson dies at 84
The Rev. Jesse Jackson was a lifelong civil rights advocate until his death Tuesday at the age of 84.
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Anna Hough @annahough.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Waves to the “I wasn’t a feminist until I was sexually assaulted or sexually harassed or discriminated against at work” crowd 👋🏻
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Anna Hough @annahough.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Happy Year of the Fire Horse everyone! 🔥🐴 And a special shoutout to my fellow horse year people!
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Anna Hough @annahough.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
“Too often, Parliament behaves as though the reckoning has passed. For the many survivors of parliamentary workplace harm, it has not. … It is a system that still struggles to hold power to account and too often exacerbates the trauma of those who have already been harmed.” /2
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Anna Hough @annahough.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Having also spoken out publicly about my mistreatment in parliamentary workplaces - which in my case involved sexual assaults, bullying and discrimination - I endorse every word of this excellent article by Jo Tarnawsky in @womensagenda.bsky.social womensagenda.com.au/latest/soapb...
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Setting the standard? Parliament still doesn't take workplace harm seriously
With "many" complaints of workplace misconduct at Parliament House being made, how seriously are they being treated? Jo Tarnawsky writes.
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
how we got here
“nothing is real until it hurts me” slogan replaces “don’t tread on me” slogan on a Gadseden flag
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Anna Hough @annahough.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Love is … Arriving early to get front row position at the Ed Sheeran show, even though you’re more of a Metallica fan. Love you W 💕
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Anna Hough @annahough.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
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Anna Hough @annahough.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
No more silence: Treat sexual harassment as the safety hazard it is   “In 2023 - 2024, the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) resolved just 314 sexual harassment complaints. Compare that to the estimated 2.7 million Australians affected.” womensagenda.com.au/latest/soapb...
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No more silence: Treat sexual harassment as the safety hazard it is
Aligning WHS and equality laws can improve safety by preventing harassment and shifting responsibility from individuals to employers.
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Anna Hough @annahough.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Sadly not many people seem very interested in setting the standard in Parliament House in 2026, regardless of gender
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Anna Hough @annahough.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
In this case the CEO is a woman, so it’s “What is going on with highly paid public servants?”
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Anna Hough @annahough.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
As I told @canberratimes.bsky.social, sexual assault, sexual harassment, bullying and discrimination in parliamentary workplaces are not a laughing matter. Estimates should be a place for accountability, not stunts or jokes. /5 www.canberratimes.com.au/story/917183...
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'Agency is a sham': calls for CEO to resign after Senate estimates outburst
Survivors describe the agency head's behaviour as 'disturbing.'
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Anna Hough @annahough.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
So much for setting the standard. As someone who was sexually assaulted, bullied and discriminated against in parliamentary workplaces this is all beyond disappointing. /4
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Anna Hough @annahough.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
And no questions about why progress on implementing the Set the Standard recommendations was not reviewed last year as Kate Jenkins recommended. /3
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Anna Hough @annahough.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Also this Senate Estimates round, senators have asked questions about condom vending machines and the opening hours of the Parliament House gym. But there have been no questions about the toxic culture at the Department of Parliamentary Services. /2
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Anna Hough @annahough.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
At Senate Estimates on Monday night the CEO of the Parliamentary Workplace Support Service laughed when questioned about staff complaints. The PWSS was set up to support staff experiencing bullying, discrimination, sexual harassment or sexual assault. /1 #auspol
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Anna Hough @annahough.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Senate Estimates: Department of Parliamentary Services Edition. It’s all about the big issues. #auspol
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Anna Hough @annahough.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Are there more important things to talk about in DPS Estimates? Yes, there are. Do those things actually get discussed? Frequently, no. /2
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Anna Hough @annahough.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Senate Estimates hearings with the Department of Parliamentary Services. If Parliament House is The Canberra Bubble, then this is The Bubble Within The Bubble, where officials are interrogated about vital issues such as the Parliament House gym’s opening hours. /1 #auspol
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