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Trailblazers, Good Shepherd Microfinance launch Financial Inclusion Action Plans

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2016  |  NEWS
... trailblazers - are AnglicareSA, ANZ, Bank Australia, BaptistCare, Commonwealth Bank, EnergyAustralia, HESTA, NAB, the Queensland state government, Suncorp, Swinburne University, and Westpac. In addition to the initial 12 organisations, a further four ...

ARENA grants $18m to Queensland combined wind, solar, storage project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2016  |  NEWS
... (ARENA) has committed up to AU$18 million for a project combining solar, wind and battery storage to be built in North Queensland. The AU$18 million is in the form of recoupable grant funding for a Windlab and Eurus Energy joint venture to build the ...

Ethical Investment Week to bust the ethical investment return myth

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2016  |  NEWS
... Week is a series of events sponsored by the Ethical Advisers Co-Operative. Events will take place in four states - Queensland, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia, said Louise Edkins, Ethical Advisers' Co-op director and director of Ethical ...

Red Meat Advisory Council developing sustainability framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2016  |  NEWS
... best practice - it's become a way of thinking that there is a better way to do ground over management." Bondfield is a Queensland based cattle producer and seedstock operator with a background in law and project management, and she said that sustainability ...

Stockland reports on integrated sustainability performance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2016  |  NEWS
... we do, we specialise in the most complex and diverse long term communities -e if you look at our Aura community [on Queensland's Gold Coast], we'll be involved in that community for a 30- year time horizon. When we get the community value proposition ...

QIC invests $800m in Powering Australian Renewables Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... (102MW) and Broken Hill (52MW) NSW, which were commissioned in 2015. Two new "significant" wind generation projects in Queensland and New South Wales have been identified for development in 2017/2017. QIC acquired the two operating assets on behalf of ...

Victorian government chooses programs for social impact bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... impact investment which is not a bond to fund a program to reduce recidivism by parolees in that state. Last year, the Queensland state government announced an allocation of AU$3 million to develop a pilot SIB program. South Australia is also piloting ...

NAB finances third NSW social impact investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... that this one is different in that it's not an opportunity to bring to a more broad group of investors," he said. "Queensland have gone to the request for proposals stage to develop a number of social impact investments. South Australia have one in development ...

Good Shepherd Microfinance to open Queensland Good Money sites

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
Good Shepherd Microfinance will expand its Good Money retail sites into Queensland by opening branches in Cairns and the Gold Coast in 2017. Adam Mooney, CEO of Good Shepherd Microfinance The proposed Good Money stores in Queensland are backed by the ...

The search for better social metrics to value affordable housing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... community services sector. In January, HESTA allocated AU$6.7 million to Horizon Housing, a community housing provider in Queensland. This investment will see the Trust partner with Horizon Housing to "finance the purchase of management rights for 995 ...