News & Views

This is the first of our #womenintech series, profiling the diverse range of roles in the field, how different women got involved, and their ideas for making the sector more inclusive.

This indeed is an interesting time to be evaluating leaders and politicians, with the US presidential election heating up, the UK Prime Minister resigning, and, closer to home, our political stars out to impress in the last few days before the federal election.

On Women’s Agenda, we receive a lot of press releases regarding new incentives employers are offering to help attract and retain new parents.

Life is hectic.

Sydney is the eighth best city in the world to be a female entrepreneur, according to a new study.

It’s the final day of campaigning and guess what? We STILL haven’t heard a huge amount about women’s workforce participation from either party, despite our hopes five weeks ago.

Most of the fresh female faces we’ll see in the new parliament will be in the Labor party, given the ALP managed to pick up a number of key battleground seats over the weekend.

She’s a mining engineer, a humanitarian, a motivational speaker and a burns survivor.

Swimmer Cate Campbell broke the world 100 metres freestyle record over the weekend, a performance that may have been missed or at least overlooked as we attempted to figure out the results of the Federal election.

Laura Cardinal is a mother of two young daughters who’s determined to prove that women can ‘have it all’.

Labor candidate Linda Burney made history on Saturday night by becoming the first Indigenous woman ever to win a place in the House of Representatives.

Basketballer Lauren Jackson has officially handed the Australian Olympic flag over to cyclist Anna Meares this morning, after Meares was named our 2016 flag bearer for the opening ceremony in Rio.