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Kamala Harris, right, and Australian women who’ve been tested in Australian politics: Tu Le, Fatama Payman and Julia Gillard.

Kamala gave me hope, but could a woman of colour really lead Australia?

Look at what’s happened to Australian women of colour with political ambitions. It’s dispiriting, but we must live in hope.

  • Satara Uthayakumaran

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Sabine King, the director of career accelerator and student engagement at UNSW Business School.

‘Humans need humans’: how to be a leader in a rapidly changing world

In our quickly changing tech-driven landscape, a whole new suite of skills is now required to be a successful leader.

  • Joanne Brookfield
Julia Gillard in 1994, the year of the Hobart convention.

Julia Gillard on the vote that has reshaped parliament for 30 years

Some votes can be passed with murmurs of assent, and some with shouts of dismay. Three decades ago, a historic vote at the Labor National Conference was met with joy and dancing.

  • David Crowe
Toy maker Mattel is honouring the late legendary Cherokee leader Wilma Mankiller with a Barbie doll.

Not everyone is happy about Cherokee Barbie

A doll in the likeness of Wilma Mankiller, the first woman chief of the Cherokee Nation, has been hailed by tribal citizens, and lamented for its inaccuracies.

  • Sopan Deb
Incoming CEOs Vanessa Hudson and Michele Bullock.

No coincidence: Women replace country’s most unpopular leaders

Alan Joyce and Philip Lowe are wildly dissimilar. Even so, both the institutions they have left have been accused of operating without sufficient sensitivity.

  • Elizabeth Knight
Transurban CEO-elect Michelle Jablko

Why appointing a female CEO to run a big company doesn’t feel like progress

What passes for success – or even progress – is still a low bar.

  • Elizabeth Knight
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Philip Lowe’s successor, Michele Bullock.

Michele Bullock named new Reserve Bank governor, replacing Philip Lowe

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said: “Michele’s will be an important job at an important time.”

  • Rachel Clun and Shane Wright
Left to right:  Wing Commander (Ret’d) Sharon Bown, Emeritus Professor Christine Duffield, Adjunct Professor Kylie Ward and Group Captain Kath Stein on Radji Beach for a remembrance ceremony for the 21 nurses executed by Japanese soldiers February 16, 1942.

On the toss of a coin, Army nurses traded life for death

Radji Beach on Bangka Island is peaceful and beautiful. But it is also the scene of the largest-ever loss of Australian servicewomen in a single event.

  • Sharon Bown and Kath Stein
Sanna Marin and Jacinda Ardern

Ardern and the hot Finnish PM: The female leaders we loved (to look at)

It is bitterly ironic that our outsized interest in female leaders, particularly beautiful ones, is the very thing we punish them for in the end.

  • Jacqueline Maley
Dania Zinurova, Wilson Asset Management portfolio manager.

Why $210m fund manager Dania Zinurova’s diary fills up faster when sharemarkets go sour

The Sydney-based Russian-born portfolio manager has been attracted to the diverse and unconventional since she was a girl – and it’s been serving her well.

  • Jessica Yun

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