I want to start with a number. 28.5%. That is the proportion of Australians who have experienced child sexual abuse, according to the 2023 Australian Child Maltreatment Study. Of those, approximately 75% experienced it more than once. These are not rare events. This is not a problem confined to certain families or certain communities. This
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I’ve had the same conversation twice this week. Once with a childcare client — a capable, committed team doing genuinely good work with children every day. And again at the Local Government People & Safety Conference, standing in a room full of HR professionals and people managers from councils across Queensland. In both conversations, the
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The 2026–27 Federal Budget was handed down on 12 May 2026, and while much of the headline commentary focused on tax cuts and cost-of-living relief, there is a lot in this Budget that Australian employers need to be thinking about right now. This is not a Budget of broad incentives. It is a Budget of