Fiona Smith
BlueNotes
Sydney, NSW, Australia
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The Goodes oil on culture, leadership & winning
Champion footballer and Australian Adam Goodes shares reflections on his career and success. → Read More
'Always grasp the opportunity': confronting ageism creatively
More Australians are rejecting the negativity around ageing and defining for themselves what getting older means → Read More
Better bedfellows: how mattress manufacturers are stopping the waste
Social enterprise Soft Landing is joining forces with bed manufacturers in a push to recycle mattress parts and divert it from landfill → Read More
How to have hard conversations with clients
There’s a number of techniques you can use to make ‘courageous’ conversations at work easier. → Read More
Shebah is the women-only ride sharing service we should not need – but do
A new service has launched in Australia, promising women safe transportation without harassment → Read More
Profits with purpose: can social enterprises live up to their promise?
While the number of social enterprises is increasing in Australia, there are questions as to whether they can have the much hoped-for impact → Read More
Protecting the Kakadu in Kakadu plums: selling bush foods to the world
A bush foods export market could become an employer and source of income for communities – but only if the rights of Indigenous Australians are protected → Read More
Paul Zarah, Alan Joyce and the power of gay role models
ANZ BlueNotes. Coming out at work remains a brave decision. We speak to those who have - and succeeded. → Read More
Gay leaders and the power of role models
In business the penalties for being different have been all-too obvious. That’s slowly starting to change. → Read More
Newcastle: a 'living lab' to test driverless cars, parking sensors and lockout laws
Twenty years after BHP left town, one of the largest cities in New South Wales has reinvented itself as a smart city and a home for innovation → Read More
Invisible farmers: the young women injecting new ideas into agriculture
Women have long played a silent role in agriculture in Australia – now a new generation of female farmers is stepping forward. Our new series, Future of farming, examines those focusing on sustainable agribusiness → Read More
Startup like a girl: why investors should pay more attention to female entrepreneurs
While only one in four startups are lead by women and the investment gender gap is widening, those who fund women see greater returns → Read More
'Poster child': why your Aboriginal colleague isn't there to explain Indigenous culture
Feeling culturally unsafe is about more than overt racism, and being constantly ‘on show’ at work should be named as bias → Read More
Indigenous Purchasing Program: 'With a foot in the door, we proved ourselves'
The IPP isn’t perfect but it helps Indigenous businesses compete for work that previously would have been off the radar → Read More
Unpaid childcare is Australia's largest industry – it needs to be acknowledged
Putting a dollar figure on unpaid childcare – valued at more than $345bn in Australia – encourages governments and employers to factor it into their planning → Read More
Fighting parental leave does employers no favours
ANZ BlueNotes. Nearly half of all women receive unfavourable treatment on announcing their pregnancy at work. → Read More
IWD2017: Your baby or your boss?
To celebrate International Women’s day, all week BlueNotes will be guest edited by experienced journalist and author Catherine Fox. We’ll be publishing content on women, their experience in the workplace and the future of equality as the world looks to #beboldforchange. We hope you enjoy it. #IWD2017 → Read More
Australian women at work: underpaid, discriminated against and told to be 'more confident'
Research released before International Women’s Day shows senior female managers earn, on average, $93,000 less than their male equivalents → Read More
We grow it, we waste it, we dump it: fighting food waste one click at a time
With almost 4m tonnes of food from the commercial sector going to landfill, social enterprise Yume connects suppliers with restaurants and other buyers → Read More
Paid family leave transformed Australian business – it's now under threat
Companies with paid parental leave retain employees and save on recruitment, but proposed government changes could discourage employer-funded schemes → Read More