Every registered financial adviser in Australia must complete 40 hours of CPD per year — spread across mandatory categories, tracked to the hour, and evidenced if a licensee asks. For most practices without a dedicated L&D function, that tracking falls to whoever has the capacity. Usually, that’s a spreadsheet and
Most early learning services take compliance seriously. Staff complete mandatory training. Records are kept. The right boxes are ticked. Yet, when legislation changes — as it does, regularly — the training often doesn’t. The gap isn’t intentional. Centre directors know what their mandatory training requirements are. The problem is quieter
LMS for Australian Government Agencies: What to Look For Before You Buy A cloud-based LMS is something a commercial organisation can set up in a week. In an Australian government context, the same decision can take 18 months. Not because the software is more complex — but because the process
AUSTRAC doesn’t just want training to happen. It wants proof that it happened — to the right people, on the right topics, at the right time, and in a way that reflects your current obligations. That distinction matters more than most financial services firms realise. AML/CTF training in Australia isn’t
Most AFSL holders already know what they’re obligated to do. What fewer would confidently claim is that their current setup — a folder of PDF certificates, a spreadsheet someone updates at the end of each quarter, a handful of email threads chasing advisers for CPD logs — would survive a
Most manufacturing sites do inductions. Workers sign a sheet. The sheet goes in a folder. The folder goes in a drawer. Then a SafeWork inspector arrives and asks: who completed the induction, what version of the content did they receive, and how do you know they understood it? The folder
Training is easy to talk about and much harder to manage well. In many early learning organisations, the real challenge is not deciding what staff need to learn. It is keeping enrolments current, sending reminders, following up on overdue training, tracking refresher cycles, and maintaining visibility across educators, casuals, room
Generic training can only take an early learning service so far. Every provider has its own policies, team structure, service philosophy, communication style, and ways of working. Those differences shape what happens in rooms, how educators respond to families, how leaders coach practice, and how consistency is maintained across the
Since December 2022, Australian employers have had a positive duty under the Sex Discrimination Act to take reasonable and proportionate measures to eliminate workplace sexual harassment, sex discrimination, and related conduct — before it occurs. In December 2023, the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) was granted formal powers to investigate
From 1 July 2026, Australian law firms providing designated services must have an AML/CTF program in place — and that program must include mandatory staff training. This article covers exactly what that training obligation requires, who it applies to across your firm, and how to build a training process you