Appointments

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.

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.

Justice Susan Kiefel is to be the next Chief Justice of the High Court, the first woman to occupy the position in Australia.

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.

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.

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.

When it comes to getting to the top, there’s much you can learn from Gladys Berejiklian.

There are a hundred possible reasons why Gladys Berejiklian does not have children, and not one of those reasons is our business.

It’s official.