Today
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- Courts
Partner claims Deloitte misled, deceived Rio Tinto
Colin Brown claims Deloitte Australia told the mining giant in 2018 he would play a 'lead role in delivering' the five-year project even though he was due to retire in the first year of the contract.
- Edmund Tadros and Hannah Wootton
This Month
EY drops requirement for partners to retire at 60
The move comes amid a landmark case alleging that Deloitte Australia's mandatory retirement age of 62 breaches age discrimination law.
- Hannah Wootton and Edmund Tadros
Older partner claims Deloitte forced him out
Auditor Colin Brown is seeking damages of more than $3 million over claims Deloitte Australia illegally tried to force him out of the lucrative partnership.
- Updated
- Edmund Tadros, Hannah Wootton and David Marin-Guzman
June
Quotas can help fix the glaring whiteness of America’s C-suites
They've helped women. Why not apply quotas for African Americans to the boardrooms and middle management of the Fortune 500?
- Rebecca Greenfield
The messy truth about the protest movements that changed the world
The history we often learn is neatly packaged into right and wrong. The truth is social movements aren't always civil — and that's part of what can make them effective.
- Maggie Astor
US Supreme Court hands down landmark ruling on LGBTQ workers
How one of Donald Trump's conservative Supreme Court picks just expanded civil rights anti-discrimination laws to include LGBTQ workers.
- Updated
- Jacob Greber
February
- Opinion
- Indigenous
Why the Aboriginal citizenship ruling is alien to all ideas of law
A High Court decision that Indigenous people have "metaphysical" ties to the land dispenses with impartiality, equality and individualism.
- John Roskam
December 2019
Angus Taylor demands apology from Naomi Wolf
Embattled Energy Minister Angus Taylor has accused author Naomi Wolf of making anti-semitic accusations against him, escalating a bizarre war of words over their time at Oxford University.
- Tom McIlroy
September 2019
Meet the Aussie insurer who dived headfirst into the diversity debate
When Jason Groves moved to London, he found an old-fashioned industry ripe for change. Now he chairs Dive In, the diversity festival kicking off this week.
- Hans van Leeuwen
June 2019
GoFundMe shuts down Israel Folau's fundraising page
The fundraising platform says it does not tolerate "the promotion of discrimination or exclusion."
- Roje Adaimy
Religious freedom laws to fall short of conservative demands
During the election campaign Scott Morrison promised a new religious discrimination act. Conservatives are now likely to be disappointed.
- Tom McIlroy
