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CA ANZ DEI SURVEY: REPORTS OF DISCRIMINATORY BEHAVIOUR DECLINING, BUT WOMEN STILL EXPERIENCE NEGATIVE BEHAVIOUR AT A GREATER RATE THAN MEN

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Chartered Accountants ANZ’s latest biennial Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Survey Report reveals that while reports of discriminatory behaviour have declined since 2021, women are still more than 2.5 times as likely to experience sexual harassment than men.   The survey of nearly 2,000 CA ANZ members revealed that 13% of women respondents reported experiencing sexual … Continued

Council to Homeless Persons urges government to decriminalise begging

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Council to Homeless Persons is urging the Victorian Government to support a private member’s bill to abolish the offence of begging. Legalise Cannabis MP Rachel Payne will deliver her second reading speech on the bill to state parliament on Wednesday, proposing to remove begging from the Summary Offences Act 1996. CHP CEO Deborah Di Natale … Continued

More companies produce quality Modern Slavery Statements, with some room for improvement: report

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Key points Modern Slavery Statements are compulsory for organisations operating in Australia with $100 million or more in annual consolidated revenue Since they became mandatory in 2020, more companies are complying well However, some continue to lag in their reporting Australia’s first Anti-Slavery Commissioner Chris Evans has welcomed Monash University’s fifth report on ASX100 companies’ … Continued

NetApp Collaborates with AWS to bring Enterprise Data to AWS AI Services

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Amazon S3 Access Points for FSx for NetApp ONTAP connects ONTAP data to AWS’s wide range of AI, ML, and Analytics services SAN JOSE, Calif.–BUSINESS WIRE– NetAppĀ® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, today announced a new capability that enables enterprises to make their workflows simpler and more efficient by connecting Amazon Web Services … Continued

AI-Media Launches ADA Title II Compliance Initiative to Support Public Entities Meeting WCAG 2.1 AA Deadlines

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NEW YORK, Dec. 02, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — AI-Media, a global leader in AI-powered captioning and audio description technology, today announced the launch of its comprehensive ADA Title II Compliance Initiative, aimed at helping state and local governments across the United States meet the newly finalized federal accessibility requirements for digital content. In April 2024, … Continued

Expert Alert: Unprecedented population expansion lifts Australia’s housing costs.

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Property data organisation Cotality, tallies Australian property price rises averaging 7.5 per cent nationwide, and 13.1 per cent in Perth, over the year to November 2025. Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) argues that Australia must stabilise its population to ease the pressure on housing population, effective through reducing Net Overseas Immigration (NOM) to 70,000 per annum. … Continued