As megatrends like globalisation, urbanisation and digitisation descend upon Australia, the very concept of commercial road transport is put to the test – and only a diverse workforce will be able to cushion the shock. If the Australian Logistics Council’s (ALC) 2017 Forum in Melbourne last month is anything to go by, Australia is on…
When you’re ready to next hire a new team member, have a good look around you. At the same time, peer into the mirror. Is your team disturbingly familiar? Is there a ‘same-same, but different’ approach in your hiring practices? If this is the case, you could be missing out on finding someone who can…
Google’s new diversity chief criticised the contents of an employee’s memo that went viral inside the company for suggesting Google has fewer female engineers because men are better suited for the job. Danielle Brown, Google’s vice president for diversity and inclusion, sent a letter to employees Saturday saying the employee’s memo “advanced incorrect assumptions about…
Google has fired the employee who wrote an internal memo suggesting men are better suited for tech jobs than women, according to a person familiar with the matter. The employee’s firing followed an email earlier in the day from Google chief executive Sundar Pichai to the company’s employees, saying that the memo writer violated company…
ISLAMABAD – Australian High Commissioner to Pakistan Margaret Adamson Monday said that gender equality and women’s empowerment was a core element of Australia’s foreign policy. Adamson welcomed Australian gender equality advocate Elizabeth Broderick to Pakistan on a visit to engage business leaders on promoting gender equality in the workplace. Broderick, a former Australian Sex Discrimination…
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If the ABC were audited for diversity, the report might read something like as follows: “Evidence suggests that the ABC’s organisational culture reflects structural discrimination. The staff profile is unrepresentative and produces marginalisation of outsiders or ‘others’. This marginalisation persists due to apparent discrimination in recruitment and promotion practices. As a consequence, the ABC’s program…
The Digital Australia study, an annual look at the way Australians are playing video games, was released today. It features all the statistics that you might expect from such a survey. Yep, pretty much everyone in Australia is playing video games. Yep, video games aren’t just for kids. Yep, people play video games to stay…
Beware the female Doctor Who dares to challenge the status quo. First thing Monday morning I received an urgent text from a friend: “Have you heard about The Doctor?” My friend is actually a medical doctor so she could have been referring to a professional matter, but I knew exactly what she meant. “Yes,” I…
As far as titles go, ‘Race Discrimination Commissioner’ is a fairly benign one. Certainly, as distinct from its incumbent, Dr Tim Soutphommasane, it is not quite as bombastic as its former Soviet counterpart, the ‘People’s Commissariat for Nationalities’. That comparison of course is not meant to imply the office’s communiques, or that of its parent…