"Growth is a challenge for Australian businesses in 2020 more than ever."

I think that the real challenge is to get over this obsession with growth: more money for billionaires, more people to help them get it.

Getting on the 'gender diversity' bandwagon is just an attempt to appear to be 'nice'.

"Feminism has been the Trojan horse for most of the very nasty equity and diversity policies that have infected the entire western world"

If they are really serious about having good aussie companies, they need to put big tariffs on imports and reduce immigration level like everyone wants them to do.

I worked temp for a large transnational company several years ago and the management was implementing gender diversity etc.

Absolutely hopeless because the company had no one on board who was a sociologist, anthropologist, etc. They were just all engineers, accountants, business types, etc. who didn't have a clue about anything but their jobs and sports.

But that didn't stop the senior managers raving on about how they had all the answers to topics that even sociologists and anthropologists find problematic.

Talk about the blind leading the blind.

obsession with growth
ttbn,
Yes, on one hand everyone applauds Zero emission targets yet on the other hand they all pursue growth. talk about morons !

Absolutely agree! No question!

We're where we are today because the old boy's club ran the joint and resist/resisted change as if it were a personal death sentence!

Many of the lesser minds in this old boy's club would die in a ditch first, before accepting change/reform!? And allowed by less competent fund managers acting for their members!

The very next GM's need to see the recalcitrant boards ejected as a root and branch clean up! Otherwise, very little of moment changes!

These guys are a central part of the problem and also need to clean u their act! Otherwise, the more savvy members are going to start voting with their feet!
Alan B.

Progressive Pat. You may think you speak for All other Australians? But if you do? You are self-delusional?

Tariffs will just make our situation worse. What we need is the world's cheapest energy and coupled to cooperative capitalism to make products that more than compete in the global market place!

Moreover, co-ops stood alone as the only private enterprise, free market, business model that survived the Grea Depression, largely intact!

Your simple-minded recipe has been tried and turned a manageable recession, into the Great Depression, Genius!

Suggest in future you comment on stuff you actually understand! Know something about! Instead of SFA.

Also, suggest you engage brain before putting mouth into gear. Further, better you remain silent and have the world merely suspect you're a fool, than open it to remove all doubt.
Alan B.

individual & progressive Pat,

Yes.

Growth is all about greed. Globalisation and 'free' trade is all about greed.

I grew up in the 40s and 50s. There certainly was none of that stuff then. But, everyone had a job, plenty to eat and a place to live. Annual holidays, plenty of sport and entertainment. Most families had one motor vehicle unlike these days, with what used to be a front garden now looking like a used car yard.

Everything since then has been an abberation that was always too good to last. From now on, thing will start to right themselves, and all the ranting and raving won't stop it.

In the forties and fifties, we the people owned, not for profit power companies that reticulated cheap as chips, electricity.

And we had men of vision as the helm and a great big visionary project, we built even though we had crippling post-war debt! The engineering marvel of the world, the Snowy Mountain project! As our big visionary infrastructure project that's still giving! To this day!

Those were the two things, one might successfully argue, that ushered in, unprecedented post-war prosperity. Post-war prosperity that went on to create the third wealthiest nation on earth and a debt-free creditor one at that!

ttbn, remembers those days with affection as do most of us who enjoyed an unsurpassed standard of living and a freedom bought and paid for, with rivers of Anzac blood!
Alan B.

Can't agree with that Alan.

In the 40s, post war, I slept on a verandah in Townsville. We moved the bed from side to side of the house depending on where the rain was coming from.

In the early 50s I slept in a unlined room with no windows fitted, in a rather cold Bathurst, because we couldn't get lining sheeting or glass. Just not available, which may have been a relief, as I doubt we could have paid for them

I also played league in sand shoes, with many mates playing barefoot, as parents could not afford to buy boots for their kids. God I hated the unbleached calico sheets & pillowslips mum made to save money. I wasn't too wrapped in the school shirts, & shorts she made either.

If any of us kids wanted a bike to ride to school we had to find jobs, our folks couldn't afford to buy them for us. We ate rabbit I had shot or dug out of burrows a couple of times a week to save money on food. "Mixo" ruined that.

No mate it was not an "unsurpassed standard of living", in fact life was fairly tough for many of us, particularly families of returned service men. Don't get me wrong, it was a great life, free from the petty bureaucracies & rules of today. Most were in the same boat, so we didn't feel deprived, & did not expect handouts, but it was far from a high standard of living.

Onya ttbn.

Look Greg Chmiel, you can't have gender equality because regardless of what the new crop of brainless feminazis say, most women prefer to be women, as most men prefer to be men.

Most women love the idea of being mothers, and careerist women know that sooner or later, they will have to choose between either continuing with their career or having kids. That hardly makes them attractive recruits for long term management positions. Most women will choose to have kids and they will stay at home to look after them properly. The ones who do not usually end up depressed at the idea that they never had that experience. Australian feminist Germain Greere once remarked that the most rewarding time in her life was when she had to take charge of a friends new born baby for several months, who's mother was undergoing serious health problems.

The children of careerist women are in real danger of becoming materially well off
"little emperors" with all kinds of attitude problems associated with being virtually parentless. Mental health admissions for teenagers to very expensive private mental institutions is sky rocketing in the USA. Parents from working class families tell their kids "behave, or I will send you to your room." Careerist "parents" say "behave yourself, or I will put you in the nuthouse."

"Gender diversity" just means anti-male.

George Chmiel is saying that he thinks women are inferior to men, so that they have NO HOPE of ever being able to mix on equal terms with men, unless men as a group to permanently impose on themselves unequal costs, to provide to women unequal benefits of special consideration, special provision, otherwise they're not going to be equal.

Right, George? That's what you're saying, right?

Who is Georg Chmiel- seems to be a new money global financialist anti-traditionalist with a Polish surname. He seems to be a contradiction of values. Strange and interesting and perhaps dangerously traitorous individual. He and the organisation has made some conquests in partnership with China and the Middle East. It's interesting and sad to see certain business people with their pro-female retinue bowing to Chinese policy- in the seismic changes inherent in geopolitics- not sure how feminism would play out under the world of Chinese dominant preeminence. Another Andrew 'Twiggy' Forest in the making. The female beneficiaries of Mr Chmiel need to be aware of the future they are creating- at some point one needs to create worlds and support the hierarchy rather than destroy it/ them. Maybe the future of western femininity lies with a lesbian identity rather than with a traditional family. Only they can choose. I hope they aren't manipulated- western men need to trust that their women wouldn't betray their own culture- and it's hierarchy, their families, ancestors, children, future- time will tell- is the world better in their view than the world they remember. Everyone needs to act on what they view as their own objective interest- I don't think that Mr Chmiel has my and mine's interest in his heart.

There are some innovative women in history and the history of technology most women however choose different paths- Mr Chmiel's argument is a standard tactic of "equating possibility with probability"- he denigrates these women by his comparison- he should behave better given his financial background.

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Posted by Mr Opinion-

"I worked temp for a large transnational company several years ago and the management was implementing gender diversity etc. Absolutely hopeless because the company had no one on board who was a sociologist, anthropologist, etc. They were just all engineers, accountants, business types, etc. who didn't have a clue about anything but their jobs and sports. But that didn't stop the senior managers raving on about how they had all the answers to topics that even sociologists and anthropologists find problematic. Talk about the blind leading the blind."

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