News & Views In this together? Not when Employers ban staff from supervising kids while working from home A Sydney council asked staff to sign a declaration that they would not be supervising kids while working from home.
News & Views Remote learning back on for Sydney school students as lockdown extended It’s been a long time between remote learning efforts for Sydney school students. Now they will have at least 4 days’ of it.
News & Views If women with power can’t change a toxic culture by speaking up, can anything? There was at least some power parity for Julia Banks. She is distrurbed to think about what others without such power may experience.
Ed's Blog Scott Morrison’s time in the sun is over, thanks to women Scott Morrison is finding it increasingly difficult to worm his way around a firestorm of toxic allegations against himself & his government.
News & Views KPMG boosts Paid Parental Leave to 26 weeks regardless of ‘primary’ carer status & tenure Andrew Yates announced the new policy for KPMG on day one of his new role at the helm of the firm in Australia.
News & Views Less than 5% vaccinated. A fail when ‘Team Australia’ mattered most Team Australia is dead last in this race among OECD nations, this country can no longer talk of gold standards on managing the pandemic.
Politics Australia’s in lockdown & Scott Morrison has a lot of explaining to do Australia’s states and territories have been thrown in snap lockdown with some Premiers declaring they face the scariest period.
News & Views Re-Joyce? The Morrison Government has a new Women’s Taskforce member: Barnaby Joyce Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce has joined the Morrison Government’s Status of Women Taskforce. Seriously.
Health There’s a massive inventor gender gap and women’s health is suffering as a result There’s long been a stubborn inventor gender gap at play and that gap has and is continuing to significantly hamper women’s health.
News & Views Serious about tackling domestic violence? Let’s call time on sick, sensational headlines A headline splashed across the front page of the newspaper viewed by 400,000 Australians each day. It read: ‘MUM FOUND IN TIP’.
News & Views Parents are parents: How ING CEO Melanie Evans banished the ‘primary’ and ‘secondary’ carer labels When Melanie Evans was appointed CEO of ING in late 2020, she decided to banish the terms “primary” and “secondary” carer from the bank’s lexicon.
Ed's Blog 52% of families using childcare say it’s ‘hardly worth working’ New research from The Front Project shows 52% of families using child care say it’s “hardly worth working” & 80% say cost is a barrier.