While ACoP welcomes the milestone achieved on all ASX 200 Boards now having at least 1 member who is female, there is still much work to be done to embrace and include the richness of diversity to which Australian society and businesses should have ready access. So we’re not quite ready to pop the champagne just […]
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A theme that has emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic is the need for self-care in an environment that has disrupted the professional’s work environment. Right now, professionals and their governing bodies are making long term decisions based on seismic shifts arising from the pandemic.
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In response to the increasingly concerning trend in public statements that appear to undermine the confidence in Australia’s leading vaccination and health advice, ACoP has publicly called for a reset in the current tone of debate. In a Media Statement distributed widely last week, our Chief Professionalist Prof Deen Sanders OAM expressed concerns that the
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Each July, NAIDOC Week celebrates the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The theme for 2021 is a call to ‘Heal Country, Heal our Nation!’ As the unifying alliance for Australian professions, ACoP calls on all professionals to acknowledge the significance of indigenous culture in our national heritage and consider
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Our submission to the TEQSA ‘Fees and Charges Proposal Consultation Paper’ is based on aggregated responses from our Member Organisations regarding the impacts of cost recovery on their ability to continue delivering quality higher education. While we support the current regulatory environment that evaluates and recognises best practices in the higher education sector, concerns were
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Many of our Member Organisations have special events where they promote their profession to the public. ACoP is delighted to join our Member Organisation Institute of Management Consultants (IMC) in celebrating International Consultants Day 2021. International Consultant’s Day is celebrated on the first Thursday of June each year – in 2021 this is Thursday, June
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The Australian Council of Professions (ACoP) supports broad-based diversity and inclusion as one of its key policy and advocacy areas and is delighted that one of our member organisations, the Institute of Management Consultants, is leading the charge with a Women in Consulting webinar. As the unifying alliance of Professional Associations, we raise the awareness
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Our 2021 Annual General Meeting was held on 27 May 2021 – online and back to the standard Corporations Act time-frames. In our view, this is another sign how the “new normal” of online/remote working is proliferating throughout the knowledge-work domain. With nearly all Member Associations in attendance, the AGM approved the minutes of the
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