The AFL and the NRL made front page news over the weekend in national broadsheets as well as state tabloids. But the headlines and associated stories were no cause for celebration. Two senior executiv…
Everything you need to know about eSport. (And why it’s good for women.)
Over the past few months, I have received a lot of requests to explain what eSports is from a variety of industries. And usually after I explain that in Australia it is now a $1.2 billion industry and…
What’s the deal with economic leadership and women in Australia?
Australia’s economic record is a world beater. Not fantastic but outstanding. While all around have succumbed to the flood at some point in the last quarter century Australia alone has kept its nostri…
How Sydney secured the ‘Davos for Women’ 2018 Global Summit
Sydney will host the 2018 Global Summit of Women, a prestigious international event dubbed “Davos for Women“. The summit is over 25 years old and is described as a business summit which fo…
The truth about the 2017 Budget’s impact on women.
There is consensus today that Scott Morrison and Malcolm Turnbull have done a good job with the 2017 Budget. It’s been described as a Labor budget, as planting the seeds of a possible turning po…
What women should (but won’t) get in the 2017 Budget.
Tomorrow is Scott Morrison’s big day. It’s budget day which is as big as it gets for a federal Treasurer. By now the details are locked in but if they weren’t and Morrison was lookin…
Guess who volunteered to provide food for the Mother’s Day breakfast? Mums.
They say it’s the little things in life that count, which is why I gave myself a pat on the back recently when I convinced my child’s school to change the way Mother’s Day was celebrated. Until now, m…
An open letter to Westpac CEO Brian Hartzer
Dear Mr Hartzer, In a recent interview with The Deal Magazine you asserted that single-sex schools in Australia were preventing women from reaching senior roles within business. I agree wholeheartedly…
Tony Abbott blasts ‘anti-men, politically-correct rubbish’.
The former Prime Minister – and erstwhile Minister for Women – has expressed disdain today for a proposal floated by the Human Rights Commission to ensure boards have a semblance of balanc…
How women in Australia gained the right to vote.
Between 1894 and 1908 a wave of women’s enfranchisement swept across Australia. Beginning in South Australia in 1894 and ending 14 years later in Victoria, Australia’s six colonies allowed women to vo…
