International Women’s Day (IWD) is upon us again- a day which has been officially recognized by the United Nations as a time to pause and to pay homage to what women have done and continue to do in order to make our world a better place. It is described by Wikipedia as a global holiday …
The Australian government’s Religious Discrimination Bill will not become law—at least in the life of the current Parliament. This is a good thing. The fundamental difficulty is that the Bill (in its original form) would have whittled away the rights of many in the LGBTQI community. While religious belief and practice may be deserving of …
Symmetra was very proud to be the guest speaker at the, ‘It’s a matter of trust: The Great Attraction,’ event hosted by Herbert Smith Freehills. Our senior executive facilitator, Deb Assheton, spoke about the concurrent adaptive challenges being faced by organisations right now—COVID-19, #BLM, Climate Change, #metoo—and how inclusive leadership can support us in navigating these challenges. …
Women in Chile have just shown in a most emphatic way that they have been able to use their voting power to protect women’s interests and to ensure that politicians take account of them not only at election time but at all times. The presidential election has just been won by a young left-wing candidate, …
The 17th of January 2022 is the day this year on which Martin Luther King Day is commemorated across the United States. It is a nationwide public holiday in the USA adopted into the calendar of public holidays after King’s tragic assassination in 1968. In many ways, Martin Luther King Junior personified the mobiliation of …
“They call me Mister Tibbs “ – the protagonist asserts as he confronts a racist plantation owner in Mississippi and slaps him across the face. This is the unforgettable line spoken by a Black actor, Sidney Poitier playing Philadelphia police detective, Virgil Tibbs, investigating a murder in the Southern State in the iconic movie, In …
President Biden has reaffirmed that he will be nominating an African American woman to sit on the US Supreme Court, to replace the retiring Steven Breyer. Although this will leave the Court with its current 6 to 3 conservative majority, it will be a momentous milestone on the road to making one of the hallowed pillars …
As we all enter the holiday period, the word uppermost in most peoples’ minds is “safety.“ In the midst of a new COVID-19 outbreak, we are alert for warning signs of dangers which may impact anyone in our home, social environment or workplace. But as we look forward to 2022 there is another form of …
December 10th is Human Rights Day and is also the anniversary of the signing of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Australia stands proud as one of the principal drafters of the Declaration. HV Evatt of Australia chaired the General Assembly when it was adopted and Australia has since signed most relevant treaties. Yet …
For many employers, the concepts of diversity, equity and inclusion start and end with those they identify as formal employees. This is no longer an economically viable nor a morally consistent position for employers to take in the 21st century. Moreover it undercuts some of the basic premises of an inclusive workplace where choices and …