Our latest Women’s Agenda podcast is away, this week featuring a conversation that’s all about saving the planet and the small actions we can take to reduce our impact on the planet. Natal…
‘I believe in quotas’: How Branson (with business) is driving social change
Corporate social responsibility is not a term our grandparents would have been familiar with. For them, the role of business and government would have been utterly distinct. Big business would have ac…
The ‘urgent transformative’ change Australian politicians refuse to accept is needed
This could very well be the ultimate consequence of the infighting, egos and bitterness we’ve seen played out in politics in recent years: a warmer future world that Australia refused to accept or ack…
Australia confirms climate change biggest threat to Pacific by signing declaration. So what now?
Australia can’t get its act together on developing firm emissions reduction policies, but can confirm that climate change is the biggest threat to the Pacific. Australia has signed on to the Boe…
Getting more women on boards can make companies greener: Research
Here’s yet another reason to support getting more women on boards: new research finds that companies with a better mix of men and women around the table experience fewer environmental lawsuits. …
Bushfires and drought, but Canberra just had another (failed) leadership spill
It was on, again. For the umpteenth time in Australia. The top job in Australia was contested, behind closed doors this morning. While you were busy starting your work day, leaving the school pick-up …
Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Dutton & the desperate state of affairs in Canberra
No, you’re not imagining things nor is it merely a bad dream. There are leadership rumbles in Canberra again – triggered ostensibly by climate policy – and Peter Dutton is being moot…
No wrecking or undermining? Tony Abbott’s doing it all & there’s more at risk than policy
Remember when Tony Abbott pledged, upon losing a leadership spill to Malcolm Turnbull, that he’d make the leadership change as easy as possible with “no wrecking, no undermining, [and] no …
Granting half a billion dollars without a tender? It’s insulting to the intelligence of Australians
“We need to respect the intelligence of the Australian people.” I remember very clearly hearing the then-Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull speak these words on the afternoon he mounted his chal…
Coles ditching the ban on plastic bags? That’s why I’ll choose Woollies
Yesterday afternoon, apropos of nothing, my five year old daughter piped up from the backseat with this. “Mummy, that’s why I choose Woollies”. Someone’s little ears have obvio…
