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The advice that helped land HESTA CEO Debby Blakey the top job
HESTA chief Debby Blakey talks about how maths helps her to make decisions, how a key piece of advice from a mentor helped her land the top job, and why she likes 42-minute meetings.
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- Sally Patten and Lap Phan
The new governor-general - in her own words
Sam Mostyn has been one of Australia’s most influential company directors for many years, shaping policies on gender, climate and First Nations issues.
- Hannah Wootton
Visa rejections hit record as overseas students top 700,000
There were 713,000 international students living in Australia in February, but a corner has been turned as visa rejections pile up.
- Julie Hare
Union delegates should get free iPads from bosses: CFMEU
Employers are protesting against a push for union delegate minimum rights including an iPad, a phone, filing cabinet and private lockable area.
- David Marin-Guzman
Airports strike threatens to disrupt school holiday flights
Aviation firefighters are threatening to walk off the job around the country after documents revealed major airports are at “extreme risk” from understaffing.
- David Marin-Guzman
Super funds nominating directors to boards ‘unwise’
Super funds that nominate a director to a company board may fail to change the organisation’s strategy and could lose flexibility to manage their investment, leading chairmen warn.
- Sally Patten
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An expensive education is no guarantee of academic, career success
Readers’ letters on wealth and education outcomes; unbalanced HECS revenue; the value of locally made solar panels; the need for a better balanced tax system; and advice for letter writers.
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Why boards need their strategy captured on one page
Good governance is about strategy and judgment, not compliance and process. How do boards get those things to the fore?
Corporate leader
Lift the minimum wage and help to close the poverty gap
Almost 5 million Australians live at or below the poverty line. Even a 4.9 per cent rise would go some way to help those in insecure work.
Catholic bishop
Drug use at work isn’t biohacking. It’s workaholism
Even if anecdote-driven reports oversell the problem, it’s clear that the “just say no” and “this is your brain on drugs” eras are a relic of the past.
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An expensive education is no guarantee of academic, career success
Readers’ letters on wealth and education outcomes; unbalanced HECS revenue; the value of locally made solar panels; the need for a better balanced tax system; and advice for letter writers.
- Opinion
- Governance
Why boards need their strategy captured on one page
Good governance is about strategy and judgment, not compliance and process. How do boards get those things to the fore?
- Catherine Livingstone
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- Opinion
- Minimum wage
Lift the minimum wage and help to close the poverty gap
Almost 5 million Australians live at or below the poverty line. Even a 4.9 per cent rise would go some way to help those in insecure work.
- Michael Kennedy
Top law school dean steps down after litany of failures
The head of Melbourne Law School has stepped aside following more than a year of bureaucratic, administration and communication fails.
- Julie Hare
Ban restraints on poaching staff: RBA board member
Workers should be allowed to solicit ex-colleagues to jump ship to competitors and staff should be paid while under non-compete clauses, a former judge has urged.
- David Marin-Guzman
March
Meet Australia’s version of James Bond’s Q
After a stellar career as an academic researcher, Professor Tanya Monro now heads Canberra’s top-secret Defence Science and Technology Group.
- Julie Hare
Poor kids who choose the IB do better than rich kids who don’t: study
Jasmine Werneberg says the International Baccalaureate she did at high school was more academically rigorous than her business-law degree at university.
- Julie Hare
Government contracts on the line if gender targets not met
Companies like BAE Systems, Microsoft, SAP and the big consulting firms stand to lose billions in government contracts if they can’t prove they’re meeting targets.
- Hannah Wootton
Bosses want upskilled workforce? Pay your way, says Suncorp
Employers haven’t thrown enough into staff skills development and paid time must be allotted to boost productivity, chairwoman Christine McLoughlin says.
- Liam Walsh
Crackdown on ultra-early uni offers in Year 12 to boost enrolments
Universities have been told they have to rein in the practice of making early offers of a guaranteed place to Year 12 students.
- Julie Hare
Unions’ 5pc wage claim will keep interest rates high: business
Employers say the ACTU’s bid for a 5 per cent increase is “an open letter to the RBA to keep interest rates higher for longer”, while economists warn it will have an inflationary effect.
- David Marin-Guzman
Why this CEO is happy to admit he is ‘not particularly smart’
Intrepid Travel chief James Thornton says he did “OK” at school and isn’t that smart. But he was CEO by the age of 35.
- Sally Patten and Lap Phan
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- Education
Study shows why kids drop out of school
Schools need to respond to early warning signs and provide individualised support if high school dropout rates are to be averted, a study says.
- Julie Hare
Union push for 5pc minimum wage rise sets up pay showdown
ACTU secretary Sally McManus will argue the pay claim for 2.9 million workers will not drive up inflation.
- David Marin-Guzman
Keep minimum wage rise to 2pc, says employer group
Business group ACCI will argue that the Fair Work Commission overcompensated for inflation last year with its record high minimum wage rise and must correct it.
- David Marin-Guzman
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- Private schools
Emails revealed as ousted Cranbrook head hires top silk
If Cranbrook governing council thought a quick resignation from headmaster Nicholas Sampson would bring about a swift end to its media agony, it was wrong.
- Kylar Loussikian and Julie Hare
Economist sacked for student misconduct sues university over ‘ageism’
A 68-year-old professor accused of inappropriate behaviour with a student at the University of Melbourne has claimed he was fired because he was “decades older” than her.
- David Marin-Guzman
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- Governance
Australia’s highest-paid directors revealed
Women now account for more than 30 per cent of directors on ASX 200 companies – but they still don’t perform as well as their male colleagues in the money stakes.
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- Patrick Durkin
Too many meetings stalling your work? Here’s what you can do
More than half the respondents in a survey say they do catch-up work at nights because of the amount of time spent on attending meetings each day.
- Euan Black
Teals back cutting HECS indexation
Independent MPs are pushing for reform of the student loans system ahead of the May budget.
- Julie Hare
