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From apprentice to award winner: celebrating women leading change in a male-dominated trade
Hannah Usher walked into a male-dominated trade. What she found was a team that genuinely wanted her to succeed. Four years into her Lineworker apprenticeship, she was named Apprentice of the Year 2025.
Best companies for women to work for in Australia 2026
Discover the best companies for women to work for in Australia in 2026, plus a simple framework to evaluate any employer on pay, flexibility and leadership.
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The five-week intern who became EDL’s global HR lead
When Samantha Peters accepted a five-week HR internship at EDL, she wasn't expecting much. It was a short placement before her final semester at university, a way to get some corporate experience before heading back to campus. That was over nine years ago. Today, she...
Sandra Abid’s journey back to engineering
Starting again, with purpose When Sandra Abid arrived in Australia in 2013 with her husband and three children, she carried hope, ambition, and a deep belief in the power of opportunity. Like many families starting over, they arrived ready to work hard, contribute,...
Driving change on Melbourne’s tram network
A career built on confidence, care and community Every morning, thousands of Melburnians step onto a tram and trust that it will arrive safely, on time and with care. Behind that trust is a network of people who take their work seriously, including the leaders who...
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...