The outcome of the defamation case involving Bruce Lehrmann and Channel 10, as well as Lisa Wilkinson, carries crucial lessons for Australian employers. Ultimately the case was decided on the question of whether the defendants could establish on a balance of probabilities that Brittany Higgins had been raped by Bruce Lehrmann in the early hours …
The right of women to abortion in the USA is under threat. The Supreme Court has declined, for the time being, to interfere with a Texas law which effectively prohibits abortion when a heartbeat can be detected. Astonishingly it gives any private individual the right to institute legal action against a clinic or other person who participates …
This week, like most Australians, I participated in the National Census. We were told that participating is an important part of telling Australia’s story. Yet the feelings I’m left with after completing the census is ‘this is not my Australia, or my reality’. As an Organisational Psychologist and an equity, diversity, and inclusion consultant at …
It Is generally accepted that we have underestimated the challenges associated with achieving equality in the corporate world when it comes to attributes of gender, race ethnicity and sexual orientation amongst others. This is despite significant investments of time and money and the lure of substantial rewards from robust financial and human “dividends”. Whilst we’ll …
E-Challenge is Symmetra’s unique diversity and inclusion online learning platform, built to empower leaders and teams to embed inclusive behaviours for the long term. Using a unique gamified approach that encourages learners to compete and complete, E-Challenge addresses the full spectrum of diversity and inclusion topics with a continuously evolving library of 10-minute interactive Learning …
In what is an Australian first, the Law Council of Australia (LCA) supported by its constituent bodies, the Law Societies and Bar Associations in the States and Territories, have appointed Symmetra the exclusive provider of a national roll-out of unconscious bias education for all practising lawyers. It has become apparent that there is a pressing …
(photo courtesy AALA NSW) Heather Price, CEO of Symmetra, presented at the Women’s Lawyer Association of NSW in conjunction with the Asian Australian Lawyers Alliance (AALA) seminar titled “Where the Glass and Bamboo Ceilings meet in the Australian Legal Profession.” The session focused on the challenges presented by intersectional diversity to the legal profession. …
The most recent edition of Harvard Business Review is devoted mainly to diversity issues. The main article entitled “Why Diversity Programs Fail” might lead some to mistakenly conclude that diversity programs, especially diversity training, simply do not work. But in fact, the thesis of the authors is simply that some diversity programs – and some …
It was recently reported that a US business tycoon, Cary M. Maguire, Chairman and President of the Maguire Oil Company, and Maguire Resources Company of Dallas, Texas, had donated $2.5 million dollars to the American College, a leading Financial Services educator in the US, which has as its mission “…to increase the awareness of ethics …