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30 July 2026: Champions of Change has launched its refreshed Strategy 2026–2030, setting a clear direction for the next phase of its work to achieve inclusive gender equality across Australian workplaces by 2030.
08 July 2026: Champions of Change has received $1.9 million in funding from the Australian Government Department of Industry, Science and Resources through the Women in STEM and Entrepreneurship: Round 5 program.
21 May 2026: Champions of Change, in partnership with Women’s Leadership Institute Australia (WLIA), has launched the Inclusive AI Pledge — a call to action to ensure AI is designed and used in ways that strengthen equality, respect, safety and inclusion.
20 March 2026: Members of the Champions of Change Insurance Group have today announced Everyday Respect Starts With Us, an industry-wide public commitment to clear and consistent standards for respectful conduct across all professional interactions.
03 March 2026: The first year-on-year employer gender pay gap data released by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) should shift attention from headline figures to the systems producing them, according to Champions of Change. One of those systems is Australia’s entrenched workforce gender segregation.
04 December 2025: Champions of Change has released its eighth annual Coalition-wide Impact Report, demonstrating how CEO-led, innovative and evidence-based action drives measurable progress towards inclusive gender equality across workplaces.
07 November 2025: Champions of Change today announced the appointment of Julie Bissinella as its new Chief Executive Officer. Julie brings more than 25 years of corporate, gender equality and strategic experience and a decade of leadership within the Coalition.
30 October 2025: Champions of Change has highlighted the need to disrupt the way Australia identifies, develops and selects future CEOs, releasing Securing your future leader: Building diverse and inclusive CEO pipelines as a practical guide to support Boards and recruiters in challenging the status quo..
12 August 2025: Champions of Change has released a new measurement framework to help Boards and executive teams identify and share details of the underlying causes of gender pay gaps and focus on the most important actions to close them.
16 July 2025: The Property Council of Australia and Champions of Change today announced the appointment of Peter Huddle as the new Convenor of the Coalition's Property Group. He succeeds Phil Rowland, who has led the group with distinction through a period of significant growth and action over the past two years.
27 June 2025: More than 250 CEO and board-level leaders have publicly reaffirmed their commitment to lead on gender equality as a business, economic, societal and human rights imperative, captured in a new report released by Champions of Change today.
4 March 2025: Closing gender pay gaps requires deliberate collaboration at organisational, sector, and national levels, Champions of Change Coalition emphasised today, following the release of the latest employer gender pay gap data for private sector organisations by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA).
16 January 2025: Developed by the Champions of Change Architecture Group, Equity by Design provides a structured approach to embedding equity into all design decisions and development processes.
4 December 2024: Champions of Change Coalition has released its seventh annual Impact Report, detailing progress of 263 CEO and board-level leaders, and 255 Member organisations, advancing inclusive gender equality in the workplace.
16 November 2024: There has been more progress towards gender equality and pay equality in sport in the past decade than the prior century, but key barriers remain according to a landmark report released today by Champions of Change Sport Group.
30 October 2024: Almost one year since the introduction of Australia’s positive duty legislation, Champions of Change has released a new resource: FOCUSED on Everyday Respect, to address a key challenge of defining what is and is not acceptable behaviour.
