Appointments Julia Gillard appointed chair of BeyondBlue Former Prime Minister Julia Gillard appointed chair of BeyondBlue to succeed Jeff Kennett from the 1st of July 2017. She is “delighted”.
News & Views June Oscar becomes first Indigenous Woman appointed to Human Rights watchdog June Oscar has this week been named Australia’s new Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, becoming the first Indigenous woman appointed to the Australian Human Rights Commission.
Appointments A tale of three bold women blazing a trail: Dr Anne Aly, Emma Husar & Ellen DeGeneres Three women made headlines yesterday; each of them trailblazers, each in the spotlight talking openly about the shackles that could have stifled them.
Appointments Finally, a woman to head up the Department of Foreign Affairs Frances Adamson was yesterday named by Malcolm Turnbull as our first female secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Appointments How one woman became CEO after asking for a job that didn’t exist If you need further proof that tenacity gets you to the top, consider this: Karen Lawson’s just been appointed CEO of Slingshot, a role that didn’t exist until she picked up the phone to the incubator’s two co-founders and said she wanted to run the business.
Appointments Centuria board gets first female director Google’s head of Performance Susan Wheeldon-Steele has been appointed to the board of Centuria Capital (CNI), becoming the first female director to sit on the board of the ASX-listed specialist investment manager board.
Appointments Catherine Livingstone appointed Commonwealth Bank chairman Australia will soon see another woman chairing one of our largest organisations, with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia today announcing Catherine Livingstone as its new chairman from early 2017.
Appointments AICD board now 50% female with new appointment Nicola Wakefield Evans has been appointed to the national board of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, which will see the 12-person board go 50% female for the first time.
Appointments Meet Australia’s first female Chief Justice of the High Court Justice Susan Kiefel is to be the next Chief Justice of the High Court, the first woman to occupy the position in Australia.
Appointments The significance of finally appointing a woman to oversee Australia’s High Court It’s been a LONG time coming, writes Kcasey McLoughlin from the University of Newcastle, but for the first time a woman will preside as chief justice of Australia’s High Court.
Appointments Microsoft MD Pip Marlow to leave for new innovation role After 21 years with Microsoft, including as Australian managing director since 2011, Pip Marlow will soon depart the tech giant to join Suncorp as CEO of strategic innovation.
Appointments Health Minister Sussan Ley to stand down pending investigation Sussan Ley is confident she will return to her ministerial duties, after agreeing to stand down from her health portfolio and the frontbench, pending an investigation into her use of taypayer paid entitlements.
