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What happens when one of the country’s most in-demand male speakers makes a public promise to never again appear on a male-dominated panel? Well as I learnt sharing a panel with Dr Adam Fraser recently for an Xplore For Success event, many people will celebrate the move, but others will question it.

Have you ever had to really fight that desire to give up? To push yourself to get to an outcome? Or conversely, have you become so obsessed by getting to a goal almost nothing will stand in your way? Determination is about wanting to achieve something and often this goes hand in hand with persistence and resilience; the ability to stick at something and when you face hurdles and setbacks, you have the resilience to keep going.

While Australia has a national conversation on domestic violence, some of the harms of this violence remain in the shadows.

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.

I decided to go to Kangaroo Island’s 5-day health retreat in a moment of quiet desperation.

The news that Dolly magazine was closing after 46 years of holding the hands of teenage girls while they navigated the painful years of puberty, felt like the passing of a friend for so many women on social media.

On Saturday evening the US President-elect Donald Trump took to Twitter to express his displeasure at watching Alec Baldwin’s impersonation of him on Saturday Night Live.

It would be fair to say that I attend my fair share of conferences and events on the subject of gender equality.

A senior employee at computer giant IBM has quit her job and publicly condemned her former boss, in one example of what can happen when the leaders of a business choose to get involved in politics.

The Victorian government is calling on all members of the community, including businesses and startups, to step up to the mission of bringing gender equality to the state.

The Australian business sector has a big C suite gender problem according to Diane Smith-Gander, director and until last month the president of membership group Chief Executive Women.