Despite ongoing efforts over the past decade, there’s still a noticeable gap in getting women into these top roles in Malaysia’s private sector.
Setting financial goals, even if only modest, can help us to prioritise, make better decisions, and regain a sense of control. Here’s how to set – and achieve – them.
2023 was a watershed year for women’s reproductive rights in Australia, but the cost of contraception and abortion services remains too high.
In less than two years, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has gone from clear choice to fighting for majority support in the polls. What happened?
A new survey finds Australians care deeply about the environment, but many aren’t aware of the full extent of biodiversity loss.
The Andrews government has made a decent first step to reduce Victoria’s mountain of debt by $30 billion over the next decade.
Australians are buying less but spending more in some categories, despite being more focused on lower-priced brands and conscious shopping.
Funding initiatives show an emerging agenda for transformation, recognition of the specificity of temporary migrants’ experiences of family violence, and the need for system reforms.
The budget’s back in surplus after 15 years, briefly, and there are measures to ease cost-of-living pressures, but can it tame inflation?
We assessed 187 ASX200 companies – together they produce 32% of Australia’s operational emissions. Much of the action promised will come too late to avert catastrophic global warming.
If the 2018 election, which produced the so-called “Danslide”, was a disaster for the Liberals, this election amounts to a catastrophe.
In what is the first COP since Labor took office in May this year, there are positive signs of Australia picking up its game on climate policy.
There’s an “unprecedented” shortage of teachers right across Australia. Education ministers have released a plan to try to address it.
The October 2022 budget marks a departure from the “blokier” budgets of recent years, centring gender equality and the care economy rather than high-vis and hard hats.
The first Labor budget in nine years, delivered against a grim economic backdrop, contains few surprises as it charts Australia's way through uncertain times and high-cost hazards.
The army of Good Samaritans propping up the country’s social and economic fabric is shrinking. But it’s not necessarily a lack of desire to volunteer that’s to blame.
How do Australians like to talk about alcohol in 2022? Do they get on the turps, or just have a few sherbets? Have a bevvie or a cold one or a cleanser?
The Australian Greens, rather than the Labor Party, have emerged as the champions of the contemporary Australian welfare state.
Neither Scott Morrison nor Anthony Albanese has so far impressed with strong leadership skills – but the Labor leader may offer a different style of leadership that might suit the times.
Neither Scott Morrison nor Anthony Albanese has prioritised a commitment to recognising and reducing men’s violence in their election pitch. They haven’t even uttered the words “violence against women”.
The government used to set interest rates, but no longer does. If the UAP really did try to deliver on an election promise to cap interest rates at 3% for five years, what would the consequences be?
Taxing US$2.10 for a ton of emissions may not be enough to save the country from its climate crisis.
With marginal seats in play, and the outcome of the previous election to remind us, it’d be foolhardy to write off the Coalition from recording another unexpected result.
Although the clock’s running out, Australia has no agreed policymaking framework for our unique renewable energy transition issues, and little in the way of budget support.
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