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    Love the ones you’re with: An ode to older workers

    Leanne Faraday-Brash     |      April 30, 2013


    Older workers are playing an ever increasing role in the workplace. Leanne Faraday-Brash explains how to get the most out of them.

    In an uncertain world, there is one thing we know for sure. Whilst it may be masked in a depressed economy, there is and will continue to be, a shortage of knowledge workers in this country that will never be addressed by immigration.

  • Philip Taylor

    Is early retirement history?

    Philip Taylor     |      April 30, 2013


    As a new consensus around the notion of ‘active ageing’ is emerging internationally, Professor Philip Taylor from Monash University argues that Australia needs to widen the concept of ‘productive ageing’ for a complete strategy for our ageing society.

    A vast range of policymaking on age and work among most of the industrialised nations for more than a decade has been concerned with reversing the previous two decades’ trend towards the early withdrawal of older people from the labour market.

  • Andrew Davies

    Mastering social media later in life

    Andrew Davies     |      March 19, 2013


    Defence analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, Andrew Davies, shares his discovery of social media and the benefits of becoming tech-savvy, albeit a little later in his career.

    It was with some trepidation that the Australian Strategic Policy Institute ventured into the realm of social media. After all, we are an organisation that has made its name based on careful research and analysis, combined with a measured presentation of its findings. At first blush, the 140 characters of a Tweet doesn’t seem a good match.

  • Diann Rodgers-Healy

    The gender agenda – a glass half empty?

    Diann Rodgers-Healy     |      March 4, 2013

     


    In the lead up to International Women’s Day, Dr Diann Rodgers-Healey, Director of the Australian Centre for Leadership for Women, reflects on just how much the gender agenda has evolved and whether we’re taking the necessary steps towards gender equality.

    It is apt that the theme of this year’s International Women’s Day (IWD) is The Gender Agenda: Gaining Momentum.

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    Telework – it’s time to let Dracula run the bloodbank

    Tim Fawcett     |      February 19, 2013

    As our lives move online and become increasingly mobile, Tim Fawcett explains the benefits of telework and moving away from the traditional bricks-and-mortar approach.

    The greatest success of Australian National Telework Week 2012 (12-16 November) was to put the idea of working from anywhere in the uppermost minds of employees who are increasingly looking to use their mobile devices in more and more aspects of their lives.

  • Ray Levin

    The frustration with our politicians continues

    Ray Levin     |      December 12, 2012

     

    First 5000 member Ray Levin looks at how there is a lack of understanding from our politicans in regard to what is best for the economy.

    Today consulting engineers are putting off young engineers. Mining companies are putting off engineers from their design departments.

  • Helen Conway

    New Act moves Gender Equality into 21st century

    Helen Conway     |      December 5, 2012

    Workplace Gender Equality Agency director Helen Conway outlines the new Act and what it will do for gender equality in Australian workplaces.

    Can women have it all? The new Workplace Gender Equality Act places a different question centre stage.  Can women – and men – ‘’have it all”? Can the Australian economy ‘’have it all’’, where it fully reaps the benefits of its educated workforce? Can employers ‘’have it all’’, and meet the pent-up demand of the modern workforce for flexible work and meaningful careers which are compatible with caring responsibilities?

  • Helen Hull

    Workplace defibrillator guidelines to save lives

    Helen Hull     |      December 4, 2012


    In a bid to improve safety in all Australian workplaces and counter the incidence of cardiac arrest, new guidelines for the proper deployment and use of Automated External Defibrillators (AED) have been unveiled by The Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Financial Services and Superannuation, The Hon. Bill Shorten MP.

    The establishment of the AED Deployment Register (AEDDR), a new national policy authority and regulatory body, was also announced at an official launch in Canberra on 29 November.

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    Embracing the Telework revolution

    Tim Fawcett     |      October 30, 2012

    As the momentum builds for Australia’s National Telework Week from 12-16 November 2012, Tim Fawcett discusses the revolutionary shift that is taking off in the way we are working now and will be in the future.

    The word ‘revolution’ gets used a lot in the information and technology sector – sometimes too often. But in the context of a shifting global economic environment, massive uptake of mobile devices by consumers and the rapidly emerging demands of workers to use their own device of choice as part of their workday routine, something revolutionary IS happening.

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    Guilty until proven innocent, why would you want to be a company director?

    Suelen McCallum     |      October 23, 2012

    Are you the member of a board, would you like to venture into the area of board representation. Suelen McCallum shares her concerns about the way board members are expected to operate.

    It seems like more and more time in the working day is spent on working in the business, and not on the business. And lately it seems that more and more time is spent either justifying your own position in the company or justifying the actions you have taken. None more so than if you are a director of a company (or two!).

  • Helen Hull

    Have your say: The Spectrum Square

    Helen Hull     |      September 26, 2012

     

    You are invited to have your say on the Spectrum Management Framework discussion paper.

    Submissions close, 5 October 2012.

  • Russell Zimmerman

    Challenges for the retail entrepreneur

    Russell Zimmerman     |      September 25, 2012

    The retail sector in Australia is facing a number of challenges, and not all of them are related to lax consumer spending. Russell Zimmerman spoke at the GAP Productivity Summit about the Australian Retailers Association’s concerns.

    Small and medium enterprises in Australia face a lot of challenges. But there are also many opportunities out there for the brave entrepreneur. I have identified some of my top concerns for the retail sector.

  • Helen Hull

    Have your say: strata discussion paper

    Helen Hull     |      September 18, 2012

    First 5000 members are invited to have your say on NSW strata and community title laws following the release of discussion paper Making NSW No. 1 Again: Shaping Future Communities released on 15 September 2012.

    Submissions close: Thursday, 15 November 2012.

  • Helen Hull

    Have your say: roll-overs to SMSFs

    Helen Hull     |      September 9, 2012

    The Government has released for public consultation an exposure draft of legislation of legislation relating to roll-overs to self managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) and the accompanying explanatory material.

    Submissions close: Friday, 14 September 2012.

  • Helen Hull

    Have your say: copyright and the digital economy

    Helen Hull     |      September 4, 2012

     

    You are invited to have your say on the on the first consultation paper for the Inquiry about Copyright law, Copyright and the Digital Economy.

    Submissions close: Friday, 16 November 2012.

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