Looking back on her long and successful writing career, Alexis Wright says she remembers “working hard, and constantly, and thinking deeply”. The efforts are continuing to pay off, with Wr…
Bold interventions can change the game for women, just look at the Stella Prize
Six years ago a small group of women made a bold move: creating the Stella Prize for women’s writing, in order to help combat the gender bias occurring in the literary world. The effects have be…
A natural deodorant that actually works? How Melanie McVean created global enterprise ‘No Pong’
In today’s health and beauty market, natural products are prolific. There’s a huge appetite for safer skin and hair alternatives, but let’s be honest, not many of them work. So when …
Catherine Fox’s Stop Fixing Women shortlisted for $30,000 business writing award
Catherine Fox’s ‘Stop Fixing Women’, a book on why building fairer workplaces is everybody’s business, has been nominated Australia’s richest award for business writing. …
My stint as a stay-at-home Dad: It wasn’t ‘living the dream’ or ‘heroic’ but it was eye-opening
Some men suggested Rory Brown was ‘living the dream’, while some women said what he was doing was ‘heroic’ and ‘brave’. But for Rory Brown, becoming one of the less…
How to be a great referee and help mentees get amazing jobs
There are responsibilities that come from a senior title. One is that you get to be a referee. And if you are lucky, a mentor. The person who supports someone as they experience a perfect or terrible …
Where are the stay-at-home dads? Less than 5% of 2 parent families have one at home
If you thought that in these modern times there was some kind of significant trend of more fathers taking on the role of stay-at-home dad, you’d be wrong. Just 4.6% of two-parent families with k…
