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Westpac launches social term deposit

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... Westpac said finance from the deposits will be directed to initiatives that promote access to essential services, affordable housing or accelerate socioeconomic advancement and empowerment. Westpac Institutional Bank chief executive Nell Hutton said ...

Net zero, energy transition key election items: Grattan

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... decisions (for example on infrastructure); and private sector and household decisions, from opening new mines to building new housing or buying a new car. In this way, the costs of achieving net zero will be efficiently distributed, and the national ...

CEFC invests $100m into affordable housing strategy

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... will be offered at a discount to equivalent market rents for means-tested tenants in key worker hubs. St George Community Housing will manage the property after completion late this year. The units align with the International Energy Agency's zero-carbon ...

Banksia Foundation names winners of the 2024 NSW Sustainability Awards

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... to be 100% renewable energy powered and reducing total carbon emissions by 35% in 2022/23. Placemaking Award - Bridge Housing's Glebe Aboriginal Women's Housing Project Bridge Housing's Glebe Aboriginal Women's Housing Project was celebrated for delivering ...

Future Fund to back energy transition, residential housing

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... handed a new mandate, with the government directing it to prioritise investments in the energy transition, residential housing, and infrastructure. The $230 billion sovereign wealth fund has been provided with a new investment mandate and statement of ...

New risks on board watch list

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 18 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... clients and their staff." Directors are also extremely concerned about cyber-attacks (72%), as well as AI governance (35%). Housing affordability and supply (33%), government energy policy (25%), national skills shortages (83%), and board diversity (51%) ...

Australia among the leaders in lowering carbon emissions

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... ethical stewardship engagement activity. In March last year, they sold their shares in Lendlease over the group's housing development in Sydney that risked the safety of a koala colony in the area. "We don't take divestment lightly. It is our ...

Australian Retirement Trust hires impact PMs

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... investment management firm, managing the portfolio for the real assets impact strategy. Essentially, he looked after disability housing, build-to-rent and multifamily housing. Liu was the investment director for the four years to 2023. Previously, he ...

Impact investor boosts affordable housing

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 14 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... through education and out-of-home care systems. In another case study, Specialist Disability Accommodation service Liverty Housing was able to acquire 42 homes for people with disability and complex care needs. "We are often early movers into new sectors ...

Super for housing to exacerbate affordability crisis: Eslake

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... the report commissioned by the Super Members Council (SMC), Eslake said that decades of evidence clearly show that when housing demand outstrips supply, policies which have allowed Australians to pay more for housing that they would otherwise be able ...