The release of the inter-generational report has given rise to much talk about inequality and the need for another look at our tax system. It's been five years since the release of the Henry Tax Review, a comprehensive study of our tax and transfer system, released at the time that the GFC hit. So how...

Westpac has won much kudos over recent years for its efforts in attracting and promoting more women into management. It appointed the first woman, Gail Kelly, to the post of CEO - the only one to date to run a Big Four bank in Australia. She has now passed the baton on to a new...

Many disability support pensioners will be shifted to a revamped version of the Newstart allowance if the Government accepts the findings of the McClure inquiry into Australia's costly welfare system. The wide-ranging review has recommended a dramatic streamlining of the overall number of payments available to recipients. But it also stresses that no person moving...

A group of health professionals and environmentalists are calling on NSW Premier Mike Baird to ban new coal mining in the Hunter Valley. The lobby group includes former Australians of the Year Professors Fiona Stanley and Tim Flannery, who say that the health and environmental cost of coal is now too high to justify new...

As part of a Background Briefing series on mental illness in the work place, Di Martin spoke to Justice Shane Marshall of the Federal Court. In an Australian first, the judge spoke candidly about his struggles with depression and the mental health issues that face the legal profession.