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Just as we’re finally seeing some light at the end of the tunnel in regards to taxpayer-funded Paid Parental Leave let’s hope the issue doesn’t end up in the too hard basket, conveniently moved to the side as yet another casualty of the current economic crisis. The final round of the public hearings of the [...]
I came across this site today http://www.iftheworldcouldvote.com/ which was set up by three guys in Iceland. When I just visited it a few minutes ago over 712,000 people from across 200 countries had already cast their vote. Many feel the President of the United States is the most powerful position in the world so who is it [...]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is the world’s most powerful woman for the third straight year, topping Forbes magazine’s 2008 list of the top 100 women based on their career, economic impact and media coverage. There are 54 business executives and 23 politicians on the list, with media personalities and heads of non-profit organizations rounding out [...]
My daughter Maddison (11) astounds me with what she picks up on. Whilst in Melbourne recently we visited the Melbourne Zoo. We had a great time, it’s an amazing experience. But at one point we were standing beside a couple and their two children, a boy maybe 5 and his older sister around 6. Maddison was in her usual form, she had her eyes [...]
The other day I got to thinking about the fact that I have actually built the Nation’s leading business women’s networking organisation on the appalling lack of gender equality in Australian companies. When I established WNA back in 1990, the percentage of women appointed to boards of ASX companies sat at around 6%. I find it hard to comprehend that after all these [...]