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Sep 8, 2026
Leeanne BondGUEST
And then the board part, um...
Leeanne BondGUEST
So alongside my executive, I have always been, um, very involved with a professional body, so um, the Institution of Chemical Engineers, and then later Engineers Australia.
speaker_0HOST
Yeah.
Leeanne BondGUEST
So through those roles, I got an understanding of what governance is, but I still didn't really see myself doing it.
Leeanne BondGUEST
So I was running the Queensland office of Worley.
speaker_0HOST
Right.
Leeanne BondGUEST
Um, and I'd finished my term as a, as the president of Engineers Australia, so I had the capacity.
Leeanne BondGUEST
Um, and I just made a lot of phone calls internally, you know, "What is this? Is this a good thing or a bad thing?"
Joanna HoweHOST
You know, you get the IT industry.
Joanna HoweHOST
Like, you just – Engineers Australia, like, you know, you just get every little industry group jumping up and down mining.
Joanna HoweHOST
They want their workers.
Joanna HoweHOST
It's
Michael McLarenHOST
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Michael McLarenHOST
After the break, I'm going to speak to the head of Engineering Australia, the chief engineer from Engineers Australia, because this is a line of work that I'm convinced we've got to encourage more young Australians to consider.
Michael McLarenHOST
But maybe that conversation... has to begin in the schools, certainly when it comes to subject selection.
Michael McLarenHOST
I'll be joined by Catherine Richards after this.
Michael McLarenHOST
I wanted to look into this a little further because this could have implications for our ability to keep up with the demands of the future and to remain internationally competitive.
Michael McLarenHOST
Now, someone who understands this well is Catherine Richards.
Michael McLarenHOST
Catherine is Engineers Australia's chief engineer, and she's with me on the line.
Michael McLarenHOST
Wonderful to speak, Catherine, and thank you for your time.
Rod LambertsHOST
Do you suffer from or did you find this problem where you get the degree You take them out of an unusual environment, they get the degree, they're released from the degree, and then the environment that they've left behind or that surrounds them has not shifted.
Eleanor HuntingtonGUEST
To that point, one of the things that the entire engineering profession has been working on, and I need to call out the current CEO of Engineers Australia, who's been thinking really hard about this, Romilly Medieu.
Eleanor HuntingtonGUEST
The entire engineering profession has been working pretty hard to try to make the workplace a more culturally safe place for people to go as well.
Eleanor HuntingtonGUEST
Because as you say, every time you move through the pipeline, you move on to the next step and you need to find a safe home in order to grow, to thrive, to bring your best self to work and so forth.
speaker_1GUEST
Okay.
speaker_1GUEST
So chartered is like Engineers Australia is like the organization, and then you apply for chartership.
speaker_1GUEST
So there's like 16 competencies.
speaker_1GUEST
Okay.
Loren BarryHOST
She's a senior client manager.
Loren BarryHOST
At Engineers Australia.
Will RalstonHOST
I knew that.
Will RalstonHOST
Engineers Australia.
Will RalstonHOST
Yeah.
Will RalstonHOST
I could not tell you what she's doing.
Will RalstonHOST
And we're not meant to because we don't have them as a sponsor.
Matt ThomsonHOST
Engineers Australia hasn't jumped on board? They
Sally ProsserHOST
And like I said, I'm on all the remedies, including cough medicine.
Sally ProsserHOST
Then on Tuesday, I ran a full day workshop for Engineers Australia.
Sally ProsserHOST
It was a brilliant day.
Sally ProsserHOST
My voice held up fine until the last 15 minutes or so.
Sandra GallagherGUEST
Well, I left all of that behind in 2016.
Sandra GallagherGUEST
I was headhunted and went to subsidiary of Engineers Australia and to start managing their learning.
Sandra GallagherGUEST
And it was funny because no sooner I hadn't even started and I was moving from Sydney, that's while we moved to Victoria, and they put me – they said, oh, we've got a job at Holsworthy.
Sandra GallagherGUEST
And I went, hmm, okay.