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Three (very fixable) reasons your leadership pipeline is losing women
For many organisations, the real challenge when it comes to gender equity...
Organisations that are a great place to start your career
Seven endorsed employers share how they support, develop, and retain women from their very first professional role.
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A mining career built on curiosity and courage
At 19, Monique Ferguson stepped onto a FIFO flight with no long-term plan and no roadmap. Before that, she had been living in Bali, working different jobs and collecting life experiences. Stability felt distant. Direction felt unclear. Then she met people working in...
Careers shaped by support, powered by ambition
Ambition often gets the spotlight, but what sustains a career is something quieter. Support. For Shani Herat Gunaratne, that kind of support is not unusual. It is part of how her team shows up every day at Port of Newcastle. It is also what gave her the confidence to...
Senior leaders driving progress toward gender balanced workplaces
You do your research before accepting a job offer. You check the culture. You look at who's in the room. You notice, quietly, whether anyone who looks like you is leading anything. That instinct is good. Trust it. And use it. Because the difference between an...
From furnaces to the frontline of Victoria’s rail revolution
Melissa Trapani wasn’t trained to build railways. She was trained to understand how molten metal moves through a furnace. With a PhD in chemical engineering focused on industrial tapholes, she began her career at Olympic Dam in South Australia. As a FIFO metallurgist,...
Creating space for women to see themselves as leaders at Powerlink
At Powerlink, the Accelerate Women in Leadership program has been helping women across the organisation do exactly that since 2019. Designed to address the underrepresentation of women in leadership roles, particularly in technical and operational environments, the...
5 Signs your flexible working policy could be causing problems
Flexible working is no longer just a perk — it's one of the clearest signals of whether an employer is serious about inclusion, retention, and progression. The 2026 What Women Want Report, based on responses from more than 1,100 women and marginalised groups, makes...
Where employers are landing on WGEA targets, and what that means in practice
Over the last few months, I’ve been speaking with Chief People Officers as they work through the gender equality targets they’ll need to select and submit to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA). From 2026, employers that directly employ 500 or more people in...
WGEA Gender Equality Targets are here. Here’s how to make them count
From 1 April 2026, a significant moment for gender equality in Australian workplaces arrived. Employers with 500 or more employees are now legally required to select three Gender Equality Targets and report on them to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA). This...
How two graduates found their footing at nbn
Starting a career is rarely a straight line. You arrive with knowledge, curiosity and ambition, but the direction often becomes clear only once you begin. The Graduate Program at nbn is designed for exactly that moment. Over two years, graduates complete four...