June
ANZ’s openly gay chairman warns on ASX’s sexuality disclosure
Asking boards to disclose the sexuality, age and ethnicity of directors risks encroaching on their privacy and could make them a target for activists, leading directors warn.
- Sally Patten and Patrick Durkin
Director urges equality advocates to leave their echo chamber
True gender equality benefits men as well as women, Susan Lloyd-Hurwitz says, but advocates need to convince boys of that or risk going backwards.
- Hannah Wootton
Gender, sexuality reveal plan for boards should go further: advocates
A proposal that boards state the sexuality, age, Indigenous heritage and disabilities of directors does not go far enough, say advocacy groups and some directors.
- Sally Patten
- Exclusive
- Governance
ASX warned its race, sexuality push on boards is misguided
Company directors would be asked to disclose their sexuality, any Indigenous heritage and disabilities under controversial updates to diversity reporting rules.
- Patrick Durkin and Sally Patten
May
Big US companies are pulling back diversity policies
Facing a legal, social and political backlash, America’s diversity, equality and inclusion industry is starting to reassess and rebrand.
- Taylor Telford and Julian Mark
Financy in cash call for workplace equality SaaS platform
Its clients, according to the flyer, include Bega, Netwealth, NGS Super, SG Hiscock & Company and NSW Land Registry Services.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
April
Can you job-share a seat in parliament? These two women want to try
Lucy Bradlow and Bronwen Bock want voters to elect them together to represent the inner-Melbourne electorate of Higgins.
- Tom McIlroy
The advice that’s helped Loudon navigate the boardroom
Bridget Loudon says some wise words from her mum have stuck with her as she’s navigated life as the director of a blue-chip giant.
- James Thomson
- Updated
- Governance
Age, diversity on company boards plummets, gender stalls
There are more directors with an Anglo-Celtic background than seven years ago on the ASX 300, a new survey has found, and the average age of a director is creeping upwards.
- Hannah Wootton
March
Fears ‘disturbing’ bill will keep families apart
Migrants from Zimbabwe, Iran and other countries affected by Labor’s immigration bill have hit out at changes they say are a backward step for Australian multiculturalism.
- Gus McCubbing and Samantha Hutchinson
Where boards are still going wrong
Only a few chairmen have dared look outside the usual pathways to the board to find a director with deep skills in technology, marketing or human resources.
- Sally Patten
Finance wanted me to be macho. I preferred honesty
A fund manager describes how she learnt that humility could make her a successful investor and manager.
- Amy Xie Patrick
- Analysis
- The Breakdown
Black George Washington? Google shows pitfalls of ‘woke’ AI
Google’s chief executive, Sundar Pichai, apologised after his company’s AI tool inserted people of diverse backgrounds into requests for historical images.
- Nick Bonyhady
February
Corporate America’s backlash against diversity gathers pace
As diversity, equity and inclusion get more divisive, American companies are shedding jobs in this area and outsourcing the work to consultants.
- Taylor Telford
January
- Opinion
- Opinion
Why business is dumping virtue signalling for metrics
American companies are changing their approach to diversity and inclusion to improve their return on investment.
- Rana Foroohar
- Opinion
- Opinion
The real danger posed by diversity, equity and inclusion
In the name of these progressive concepts, all too many institutions have violated their constitutional commitments to free speech, due process and equal protection of the law.
- David French
The woman ready to name and shame equal-pay laggards
The Workplace Gender Equality Agency’s new powers will make business accountable over pay disparity, says Mary Wooldridge.
- Samantha Hutchinson
December 2023
Why this prestigious boys’ school is not for turning coed
St Joseph’s College Hunters Hill counts rugby great Kurtley Beale, former High Court chief justice Murray Gleeson and the late artist John Olsen as old boys.
- Samantha Hutchinson
- Exclusive
- Private schools
‘Unimaginable’: Newington mum speaks out against co-ed plan
A decision to admit girls to 160-year-old private boys’ school Newington College in Sydney has been a lightning rod for the broader community.
- Samantha Hutchinson
November 2023
After viral sexist post, women in start-ups say worse issues are buried
“Young men get given boatloads of venture capital and are suddenly in power,” says one veteran woman in the industry. “It’s a dreadful environment to work in.”
- Jessica Sier and Nick Bonyhady