Partner Content How Khristle Barr used life in isolation to start a new career For Khristle Barr, a 34-year-old mum of four, the COVID-19 pandemic served as an unlikely catalyst for career growth in bookkeeping.
News & Views Professor Tanya Monro has managed remote teams while caring for small kids at home, the now Chief Defence Scientist says flexibility & passion are key Re-prioritize on the fly and only worry about what you can control,” Professor Tanya Monro said at the National Press Club in Canberra this week
News & Views Celeste Barber shows the power of celebrity fundraising … & the importance of reading the fine print Celeste Barber’s record-breaking fundraiser shows us the power of celebrity. But it also reveals the complexities of raising a lot of money very quickly
News & Views $60 billion underspend has intensified calls for JobKeeper to be broadened While the treasury has given some reasons for the $60 billion JobKeeper error, there are surely more questions, in light of what seemed obvious to the academics weeks earlier.
News & Views Childcare is critical for COVID-19 recovery. We can’t just snap back to ‘normal’ funding arrangements As we navigate uncharted territories over the coming months, the needs of children, families and the early childhood education workforce must be at the forefront of our thinking.
News & Views What’s the gender power gap? We learn from pioneering women who have reached corporate highs Despite all the efforts to increase workplace diversity, women remainunderrepresented in leadership roles. It’s called the gender power gap.
News & Views ‘Best of’ sport lists are filling the live sport vacuum, but women take the sidelines once again In the absence of live sport, curated lists have abounded- but they have been mostly by men, featuring men’s sports with women on the sideline again.
News & Views Julia Gillard has new a job, and it’s significant for the future of global health Julia Gillard has been appointed as the next Chair of Wellcome, a London based organisation that aims to take on big health challenges..
Politics Why women leaders are excelling during the coronavirus pandemic Greater involvement of women leaders results in a broader perspective on the crisis, and paves the way for the deployment of more complete solutions.
News & Views How is this front page even real? In the year 2020 surely someone at the Courier Mail would pause and scrap a headline that read ‘Dick bids for Virgin’ before it went to the printers? No.
News & Views Thousands of job losses, billions in lost revenue: coronavirus will hit Australia’s research capacity harder than the GFC This post by Frank Larkins, University of Melbourne and Kylie Walker, Australian National University has been republished from The Conversation.
News & Views Getting an abortion just got harder, thanks to the coronavirus. Here’s what we can do better The coronavirus crisis has starkly revealed the patchy & precarious provision of abortion in Australia, deepening existing inequalities in access.