Last week I was afforded an enormous privilege by way of the Layne Beachley Aim For The Stars Foundation. That privilege? Meeting former Prime Minister, author, champion of equity, university professor, and perhaps most of all, a person content in their own skin – and owning their own space – Julia Gillard. It was clearly
Embrace diversity, breed new thinking, collaborate, allow the crazy ideas to breathe and create those often insane divergent moments because this is the only way we are ever going to create the future we dream of right here and now before it becomes a present that passes us by. It’s almost as if the repeat
Connecting, collaborating, communicating. All great words – but they do require us to use another ‘c’ word – courage. They require us to be brave, to step up and drive change through our influential actions and conversations. It still surprises me how many of us put networking in the box which has been labelled in
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has announced a "mix of experience and fresh faces" in her 14-person ministry following the party's first Caucus meeting. At a press conference on Sunday afternoon, Ms Palaszczuk announced her cabinet would feature eight women, including Indigenous MP Leeanne Enoch. All 44 Labor MPs met at Parliament House earlier on Sunday
Sheryl Sandberg is beautiful, brilliant, a billionaire and chief operating officer of Facebook. Last year, her book, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, was a bestseller for months and she is popular for her speeches to women’s groups. She’s also happily married with two small children. So she believes a woman can
The World Assembly for Women, convened by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan in the latter half of this year, provides lessons for Australia on the barriers for women in the workplace and how to overcome them. As the nominated participant from Australia’s Male Champions of Change (MCC), I witnessed a groundswell of international commitment
Captain Georgina Sutton has been appointed as Jetstar's chief pilot for Australia and New Zealand, breaking the last barrier for female pilots at major Australian airlines. She will be one of very few women in the world to have held the top pilot job at a major airline globally, joining the ranks of Captain Davina
I am a feminist. Not because I’m a whinger, or a victim, but because I understand how very fortunate I am. And I’m grateful to the women (and men) who’ve made that possible. If a footballer runs onto the field to a barrage of racist abuse, should he ignore it? Or should he call it
Speaking at a Women in Media event at the National Press Club this afternoon, Julie Bishop has raised a number of controversial topics. She started by commenting on being the only woman in cabinet, in saying “I pay tribute to all the women who have been cabinet ministers before me. The challenge I have set
The ongoing debate about women's role in the scheme of things continues to puzzle me, so I'll risk setting out my take in this article. Former department head Allan Hawke continues his 'People matter' series on managing staff. 1963 In 1963, Beryl Wilson was proposed as Australia's first female trade commissioner - to the Los Angeles post,
