We recently spoke with Perth Mint Acting CEO Jane King, to traverse her journey as the first female CEO in the company’s 123 years of operation and discuss her focus on wellbeing, sustainability, diversity and inclusion.
As Acting CEO, Jane’s focus is to keep the business running while seeing the business and our people through this difficult COVID period.
The Gold Industry Group has renewed its golden partnership with Netball WA, West Coast Fever and Glass Jar Australia, extending its landmark agreement for another three years and continuing its support across the sport through to the end of 2024.
The partnership remains the first of its kind in Australia to channel investment into women’s sport at all levels, recognising the Gold Industry Group as Principal Partner of Netball WA, Major Partner of Glass Jar Australia’s Shooting Stars program, and Elite Partner of West Coast Fever.
Shooting Stars Year 11 and 12 leaders gave back to the community as part of the annual Senior Leadership Camp program thanks to the support of Premier Partner, the Gold Industry Group.
While on the camp in May, 16 participants identified a small project that would improve their school, their community or Shooting Stars.
West Coast Fever players teamed up with Netball WA’s charity, Shooting Stars, to share impacts of the Program and the importance of positive role models for Indigenous girls, through a series of inspirational TV advertisements and video stories.
As Premier Partner of Shooting Stars, the Gold Industry Group is proud to help the Program create strong, powerful, and confident women by using netball and other tools as vehicles to drive greater engagement and attendance at school.
The Gold Industry Group welcomed three new Directors at its Annual General Meeting on Wednesday resulting in an even gender split, including Westgold Group Executive Chairman Peter Cook, Saracen Mineral Holdings General Manager People, Culture and Communications Marianne Dravnieks, and Newmont Group Executive Legal, Sustainability and External Relations Australia Andrew Kennedy.
The WA Mining Club Young Professionals’ final networking event of 2020 attracted more than 200 members to the Ritz Carlton, where a panel of industry leaders discussed ‘Risk, Exploration and Technology’ in relation to recent socio-economic impacts on the sector felt around the world.
The 2020 Women in Mining WA (WIMWA) Summit held in September was backed by Gold Industry Group members IGO, Gold Fields, Northern Star Resources and Regis Resources and featured insightful speakers from around the world addressing current challenges experienced by both women and men in the workplace.
This year’s Summit tackled various key topics of workplace culture around diversity, leadership, mental health and adaptivity.
As Premier Partner of Shooting Stars, the Gold Industry Group is proud provide opportunities for young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander girls to succeed in life both on and off the court, with participants and staff developing leadership skills through the program.
We recently spoke to Peta Slocombe, Executive Manager of Capability and Culture at Northern Star Resources Limited, on the importance of mental health education and developing a vibrant workplace culture.
A powerhouse panel of five leading industry businesswomen shared their insights on Indigenous Relations to a sold-out crowd at the Western Australian Mining Club’s luncheon last month, emphasizing the need for visible role models and a dedicated business council.
It was the Club’s first in-person event to be held since February 2020 due to the State’s COVID-19 restrictions, and was also live-streamed to interstate and international viewers unable to travel into WA.
The Gold Industry Group and Netball WA continue to join forces on providing exceptional educational pathways for women, with applications now open for the next round of the 2020 scholarship to assist student netballers in the pursuit of a career in Australia’s gold mining industry.
St Barbara is championing women’s role in the workplace, having received the Workplace Gender Equality Agency’s ‘Employer of Choice for Gender Equality’ citation for the sixth consecutive year.
Out of 119 organisations, St Barbara was the only mining company to receive the citation.
IGO Limited’s MD and CEO Peter Bradford, has been named an Honorary Doctor of Curtin University for his distinguished services as an alumnus, through outstanding leadership, advocacy and philanthropic support of mining education.
Mr Bradford graduated from Curtin’s Western Australian School of Mines in 1978 and connects his career success in the resources industry to his studies at the University.
The Gold Industry Group continues to join forces with Netball WA on providing educational pathways for women, with the launch of a unique scholarship to assist student netballers in the pursuit of a career in Australia’s gold mining industry.
Applications are now open for the ‘Netball WA Sports Excellence Scholarship in Netball’ at the University of Western Australia, made possible through the support of the Gold Industry Group.
The Gold Industry Group’s popular Women in Gold Great Diversity Debate hit the road this year, expanding from its original host city of Perth to both Sydney and Melbourne, with a diverse panel of 12 speakers and hundreds of guests from across the nation joining the #womeningold19 conversation.
Since the GIG’s inaugural event in 2016, the debate has quickly become one of the most influential diversity events on Australia’s mining calendar, this year amplifying the topic three-fold crossing three States.
The inaugural Gold Industry Group Leadership Camps saw Netball WA’s Aboriginal All Stars and Tier 1 Associations immersed into an elite sporting environment, with a focus on developing leadership qualities, promoting health and well being, and building netball skills.
Held over the same weekend as the Constellation Cup, the camps provided an optimal opportunity for the next generation of Western Australia’s netball leaders to learn from the best.
As Gold Partner, Independence Group will join other businesses and individuals across Perth for the Up All Night marathon next month, raising funds and awareness for Ronald McDonald House Charities Western Australia.
The 42 km walk will commence at 9pm on Saturday 30 November and end at 8am on Sunday 1 December, in solidarity of those families with sick children who experience similar hardship.
Ten Indigenous girls from the Gold Industry Group backed Shooting Stars education program were rewarded for their achievements this month, taking part in an action-packed leadership camp in Perth.
A wide variety of activities were in store for the girls, who range from year 9 to 12 and hail from regional communities as far flung as Carnarvon, Mullewa, Meekatharra, Narrogin and Leonora.
The Gold Industry Group are delighted to announce it has committed $5 million to netball in Western Australia in a record partnership deal.
The proceeds will help underpin development of netball from the grassroots level through to the elite across Netball WA, West Coast Fever and Shooting Stars.
Gold Road Resources’ People & Culture Business Partner Samantha Ware urged delegates at Future of Mining Australia to consider the importance of attracting ‘millennials’ to the mining industry and provided strategies to retain the next generation.
Ms Ware used her own experiences as guidance backed by current research.