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Westpac reports sustainability progress, net profit

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... increase access to financial education via local seminars in branches, online education and personal finance and business management short courses. This year, the bank also identified three future areas of materiality - demographic and cultural change ...

Mirvac identifies 22 material sustainability issues

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
Mirvac Group, the property development, investment, and management company, has identified 22 sustainability related issues that are material to the group and its stakeholders. The issue, which range from business conduct to supply chain, was the basis ...

Elders reports increased lost time injury frequency rate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... participation, Elders is a foundation sponsor for the Australian Year of the Farmer for 2012, and partners with Australian Land Management group to promote environmental sustainability on Australian farms. Over the last year, Elders staff raised more ...

Bradbury highlights corporate ESG reporting inconsistencies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... use of remuneration consultants and directors will be prohibited from participating in votes on remuneration of key management personnel. "As a major reform to the non-binding vote, the two strikes test attracted a great deal of attention when it was ...

Australia enters the era of carbon as a commodity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... angle - for example, with the household biogas project, monitoring 40,000 households is difficult and we rely on a good management team to oversee the project." If COzero is an example of commoditizing carbon through generating offsets, a recently announced ...

Investors weigh environmental, social risks of coal seam gas

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... precautionary approach. We also had concerns about the impact on the community and the fracking itself but the issue was water management." Australian Ethical is exposed to natural gas through investments in pipeline and distribution companies such as ...

Australia to pilot Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... arrangements for the resources sector against EITI principles, considered a global benchmark for natural resource revenue management. The EITI pilot will start 1 July 2012 and the AU$500,000 cost will be funded by the Department of Resources, Energy ...

Commonwealth Bank reports lower customer satisfaction

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... Health and Safety (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 ...

Stockland increases green star ratings, reduces water use

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... type of work; and not enough challenge or stretch in the job." The company also reported that the number of women in management roles increased from 35 to 37%. The company introduced two new women's development programs - the Future Women Leaders Program ...

Using ESG factors to broaden fixed income analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... providers and shareholders, who both have a shared interest in the good corporate governance through all those risk management issues - board effectiveness, transparency, governance of the company. They are all part of what the creditors have to bear ...