Ed's Blog Women can’t win. Discuss Photo by Steve Chee for Fairfax Last weekend Fairfax’s Sunday Life ran a cover story about some of the female powerhouses at the ABC.
News & Views Tony Abbott caught in no-win situation on same-sex marriage Tony Abbott’s office took quite a while to respond to Sky News’ Wednesday report that a group of backbenchers from across the parliament planned to bring forward a same-sex marriage bill on August 11, with the party room considering a week later whether Liberals should get a conscience vote.
Advice 5 smart ways to use your time Effective time management isn’t about being perfect, it’s about being smart.
News & Views The Government hates Gillian Triggs, but that doesn’t mean she has to ‘explain’ herself Last Friday, Attorney-General George Brandis and Immigration Minister Peter Dutton issued an extraordinary statement declaring that the president of the Human Rights Commission, Gillian Triggs, needed to “explain her comments” linking Australia’s turn-back policy and negotiations with Indonesia about the death penalty.
News & Views Boys don’t cry: What does masculinity mean in 2015? How many high level sporting coaches, or leaders in general for that matter, consider the way they treat their partners and families to be influential? Wallabies coach and former rugby union player Michael Cheika does.
News & Views How one young leader is making the most of the rise of China Andrea Myles wants us all to talk a lot more about Australia-China relations.
Life The top ten Australian TV shows of 2014 It’s been a diverse year of Australian programming on the small screen.
Advice Six ways to give your career a surge Are you stuck for ways to power your career into surge mode? Pretend your company/industry is a patient experiencing mid-life crisis, and they’ve come in to consult with Dr You.
Advice Overcoming fear: Five ways to take back control of your career When it comes to your work, are you more driven by what inspires you, or by what scares you? Are you willing to speak up at work, transition your career, start a new business or take on a great big job, when there’s the possibility that you’ll fail? Fear is the number one emotion that stops us from living the lives we most want.
Advice Six steps every woman should take to flourish at work Eight-five percent of businesswomen describe themselves as just functioning at work over the past six months, with more than 15 % flat out languishing according to The Australian Pulse of Women In Leadership.
News & Views Why the face of AIDS pandemic is now female On Monday, the first official day of the International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2014) in Melbourne, Dr Lydia Mungherera from Uganda said, ‘I think the face of the pandemic is a female face.
Advice Think it’s impossible to have it all? Think again Do you believe the concept of success at work and at home is a myth? Turns out that while many of us are making great progress on the career front, 70% of women now say it’s impossible to have it all.