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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 ...

ARENA funds Southern Oil Refining biofuel lab pilot

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... providing AU$2.4 million in funding for Southern Oil Refining to develop and build a biocrude and biofuel laboratory in Queensland. The laboratory project, which will be based in Yarwun near Gladstone, will be designed to produce renewable diesel and ...

Victorian government to pilot social impact bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... benefit bonds - the AU$7 million Newpin Social Benefit Bond and the AU$10 million Benevolent Society Bond. Last year, the Queensland state government announced an allocation of AU$3 million to develop a pilot SIB program. South Australia is also piloting ...

Financial Impact Action Plan program to target exclusion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2016  |  NEWS
... organisations - Anglicare SA, ANZ Australia, Bank Australia, BaptistCare, Commonwealth Bank, Energy Australia, NAB, Queensland State Government, Suncorp Group, Swinburne University, and Westpac - have joined as "trailblazers." The program has received ...

ARENA providing funding support for bio-energy project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... Energy Agency (ARENA) is providing AU$3 million in early funding support for an AU$800 million bio-energy project in Queensland. Renewable Developments Australia (RDA) is building a business case for a bio-ethanol production facility at Pentland, near ...

Laing O'Rourke pilots moveable solar-diesel power plant

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... MW plant with 134 KWp of solar photovoltaics at Laing O'Rourke's 350-bed Combabula accommodation village in regional Queensland, which will house workers during the construction phase of a major resource project, ARENA said in 2014. Laing O'Rourke will ...

Urgent need for social impact metrics development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... Impact Investment Trust and allocated AU$6.7 million of that amount 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 ...

ARENA allocates $8.4m for Normanton Solar Farm

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... million in funding support for the construction of a 5 MW DC (4.5 MW AC) solar farm near Normanton in far North-West Queensland. Canadian Solar and Scouller Energy will jointly own Normanton Solar Farm, which will be located on the fringe of the grid ...

AGL opens Nyngan, Broken Hill solar plants

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
... participants included Origin Energy, Infigen Energy, Genex Power, Neoen Australia and others, with projects located in Queensland, Victoria, New South Wales and Western Australia. Applications for ARENA's full application stage will be due by 15 June ...