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Westpac reports sustainability progress, net profit

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... increase the percentage of women in leadership roles to 40% by 2014 and implement the next stage to address its 2010 diversity audit, including implementing an accessibility action plan, Indigenous recruitment and a mature age employee strategy. The ...

Commonwealth Bank reports lower customer satisfaction

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... (OHS) Strategy," according to the report. "We also had no non-conformances in the annual external OHS Management System audit against the National Audit Tool in September 2010. The audit was conducted across Business Units in Sydney, regional New South ...

Miscommunication hampers institutional vote engagement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... from the custodian to the registry company is by fax and not electronic lodgement and that there is currently no effective audit trail for institutional share voting in Australia. "Registries are changing, but they are changing reasonably slowly and ...

Apparel industry exposed to social risk in supply chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
Eds note: article has been revised to include comment from Ian Woods of AMP Capital. The Australian apparel and retailers industry is exposed to social risks through their supply chain, both in South East Asia and at home, and companies and their investors ...

Metcash drop paper supplier over Indonesian foresting concerns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
Wholesale distribution and marketing company Metcash has tested its newly implemented sustainable supply chain management program by dropping Solaris Paper because of concerns its parent company Asia Pulp and Paper is foresting in Indonesian native ...

Carbon Farming Initiative offers landholders revenue opportunities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
The Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) will provide opportunities for landholders to generate tradeable carbon credits from carbon abatement and sequestration activities. But while landholders across Australian industrial sectors potentially stand to offset ...

Social risk: the impact on the Australian cattle industry

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
The Australian cattle industry has been whiplashed by the effects of a five-week-long suspension of live export of cattle to Indonesia. The suspension was prompted by the public outcry after broadcaster ABC showed instances of animal cruelty at Indonesian ...

Report: 100 South African companies used GRI in 2010

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... III code is broken down into nine separate chapters- ethical leadership and corporate citizenship; boards and directors; audit committees; the governance of risk; the governance of information technology; compliance with laws, rules, codes and standards ...

Deloitte, GRI to develop new program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
A new program between the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and Deloitte will see the GRI's G3 and G3.1 guidelines given a new Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) taxonomy, meaning sustainability data can be communicated more easily to investors ...

Companies investing in sustainable operations showing returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
A study of five Australian organisations, including Blackmores and Woolworths, has shown that companies that invest in sustainable business operations and incorporate ESG factors into their financial reporting are seeing returns on investment much sooner ...

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Santos receives takeover offer from Abu Dhabi-led consortium

ANDREW MCKEAN
Santos has received a non-binding $8.89 per share cash offer from the XRG Consortium, led by XRG P.J.S.C., a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ANDOC), alongside Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund ADQ and US private equity firm Carlyle.

What do the best-functioning boards look like?

KARREN VERGARA
The best-functioning boards are future thinkers, understand their ESG responsibilities and are able to show their "battle scars," according to two governance experts.

Funding lifts for climate, health, people startups

KARREN VERGARA
While funding for impact startups has broadly declined, those operating in climate, health and people has seen funding levels improve compared to three years ago, according to the Impact Startups Benchmark Report 2025.

Mind the gap: Investors' role in balancing fairness and competitiveness in executive pay

ALEXANDRE PROST
Investors have a significant role to play in helping to move the dial on executive remuneration, aiming to increase fairness and reduce inequality.

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