Igniting the right formula for Managing Life + Business…this is my story!
There are so many women doing so many incredible things everyday in business. Humbly, I can only tell my story as a female leader, which begins in a Greek-Australian household and continues today, as COO of Australia's leading makeup brand. Plus wife and mother to four children. This duality is faced by many women, and we can show how we rise to this challenge. Inherent in our produ...
What’s next for Macquarie?
Macquarie’s tradition of doing things differently over the past 50 years has created an impressive legacy of inspiring discoveries. Since 1964, we have been doing some seemingly weird, and certainly wonderful things. We’ve helped fit stilts to tiny desert ants to create an ‘ant odometer’, revealing how they measure distance and ultimately how they navigate. We’re part of an intern...
Learning circle opens
In July a ‘learning circle’ was unveiled to honour our long-standing relationship with the Darug people, the traditional occupants of the lands on which Macquarie is built, and to pay respects to the elders both past and present. Hosted by the Department of Indigenous Studies (Warawara), the launch event saw Vice-Chancellor Professor S Bruce Dowton joined by members of the Darug nation ...
Macquarie’s Professor Lesley Hughes wins Eureka Prize
Professor Lesley Hughes. Photo by Chris StaceyMacquarie University climate change scientist Professor Lesley Hughes has won the 2014 Australian Government Eureka Prize for Promoting Understanding of Australian Science Research. Professor Hughes has been researching and communicating the science of climate change for more than 20 years. She was appointed commissioner of the independent gover...
Helping close the gap in Indigenous communities
Young children from rural and remote Indigenous communities are making a more confident start to school life thanks to new early numeracy programs that not only enhance their learning, but build their confidence too. “I have a real interest in supporting quality early education and more specifically ‘Closing the Gap’ in numeracy achievement for Indigenous children, particularly in the...
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