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Good Shepherd Microfinance opens third Good Money site

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... Melbourne to provide access to microfinance products, financial counselling and other services to financially excluded people. Good Shepherd Microfinance CEO Adam Mooney at the Good Money launch in Geelong, Victoria in April The retail site in the inner ...

CPA Australia issues SME sustainability assurance guide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... that the need for information in business is becoming broader than just financial information, and there is a need to help people to provide assurance on all kinds of information. It's not just for full-scale sustainability reporting - it's equally important ...

Government bodies not effectively speaking on sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... conducted earlier this year by Change the Conversation, an independent media and communications solutions agency. "I think what people are looking for is closer dialogue with government departments," said Stephen Hale, general manager, director of Change ...

Woolworths poker machine vote fails, but push to continue

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... Responsibility. "The way things are currently structured, it's quite challenging to get companies to agree to resolutions. People tend to be forced to look at the constitutional amendments." Thus, proposing motions as constitutional amendments shouldn't ...

Investment in programs for Aboriginal women and girls needed

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... very often non-linear," said Louise Doyle, a principal with Effective Philanthropy and co-author of the report. "Where people come in from a mainstream western background would go through school all the way through year twelve, then move on to further ...

Boards increasing engagement on remuneration reports

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... be attributed to the impact of two-strikes, but you can't underestimate threat of name and shame... and that there are people who are willing to publicly talk about remuneration packages." Boards are more willing to listen when investors ask questions ...

Combet announces phase-out of solar credit mechanism

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... multiplier were big power companies, not the Australian small businesses and households installing and purchasing solar panels. People buying solar systems receive the lower market price for certificates, but power companies are able to pass on the higher ...

Fewer ASX companies see carbon price as a business risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... Report during CarbonExpo in Melbourne this week. "That had been trending very high for a long time, many years, and many people felt an obligation to report carbon as a risk knowing it was coming one day without understanding how it would impact on them. ...

Capturing the upside potential of Australia's carbon market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... to be," said Nick Armstrong, CEO of COzero, speaking from the CarbonExpo conference in Melbourne. "When I'm talking to people, it's a different debate we're having. It's a debate of, well is Europe going to set aside 1.2bn credits. If they do, the price ...

Sustainable development and Australia in the Asian Century

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... convergence of good design - good passive design with good technologies and good systems, but lastly with good behaviour, where people understand the buildings and understand the relationships with them." The white paper also looks to the potential of ...