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In a nutshell: Federal Budget 2019

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2019
... pre-school education; and $328 million to women's safety. The Government has also committed $461 million to youth mental health and suicide prevention support program, headspace. "Six years ago when we came to government the economy was weakening ...

Financial services industry digs deep for charity

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 1 APR 2019
... children. The money from FICAP will be going towards one of their programs which helps adolescents suffering from mental health issues who might end up in adult hospitals and therefore not have as much access to support. Financial Standard is the official ...

Australian Ethical mulls Facebook divestment

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2019
... Analytica brought up a broad range of issues and raised a lot of concerns about privacy, manipulative advertising, mental health and even copyright issues," he said. Following the Cambridge Analytica scandal, BetaShares removed Facebook from its Global ...

Working women more likely to experience mental illness

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2019
Working women in Australia are up against it when it comes to mental health, research shows. Latest insights from SuperFriend show working women are much more likely to experience a mental health condition in their lifetime than their male counterparts. ...

Up close and personal: Women in financial services

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2019
From chief executives to chief underwriters, risk advisers to mental health and consumer advocates, here are the stories of six women in financial services you should know about. Financial Standard has profiled six women from different parts of the ...

FSC extends life code consultation deadline

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2019
... tactics of life insurance products. The consultation will also cover several reforms to underwriting, claims and mental health; separating consumer credit Insurance from credit product sales; improving the sale of funeral insurance and banning medical ...

Women in Super ramps up "Make Super Fair" campaign

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2018
... which raised more than $35 million for the National Breast Cancer Foundation since 1998. This year WIS added 'mental health in the workplace' to its advocacy, inviting Lucy Brogden, chair and commissioner of the National Mental Health Commission ...

Planning firm among healthiest Australian workplaces

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2018
... second year in Australia, AIA's workplace health survey examines employee lifestyle, clinical indicators, stress and mental health in an effort to understand their impacts on wellbeing and productivity in the workplace. This year, CSC was awarded as ...

Pilot program to boost AIA staff mental health

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2018
A new corporate health program trialled at AIA will allow the life insurer's staff to track their mental health progress. AIA employees are trialling a new corporate health program from mental health technology company Medibio, which allows the ...

FSC revamps life insurer code

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2018
... insurance distributors to be covered by the code. The FSC has proposed asking for life insurers to treat people with mental health conditions better, including taking individual circumstances of mental health conditions (including history and severity) ...