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NAB, bankmecu win at Australasian Reporting Awards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... Woodside Petroleum were finalists. bankmecu won the award for integrated reporting, with Dexus, National Australia Bank and Sydney Water coming in as finalists. Woodside Petroleum won the award for report of the year - commercial. bankmecu also won an ...

NGS Super allocates to NSW social benefit bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... Ventures Australia (SVA) and will fund the Newpin program run by UnitingCare Burnside, which operates out of four centres in Sydney's west. The program is designed to prevent children entering foster care and improve the rate of children being safely ...

EITI conference advocates for moving beyond transparency

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... companies and civil society representatives during the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) conference in Sydney last week. During the conference, EITI announced reforms to the existing standard to further push the amount of disclosure. ...

Australia to consider country-level payment disclosures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) later this year. Assistant Treasurer David Bradbury Speaking at the EITI conference in Sydney on Thursday, Assistant Treasurer David Bradbury said that Australia's EITI pilot will end in the middle of this year ...

Graham Dooley new president of Australian Water Association

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... two-year term as AWA president. Dooley holds a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) from the University of Sydney and a Masters of Public Administration from The American University in Washington DC. He is a fellow of the Institute ...

Superannuation funds urged to examine impact of investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... integrating ESG and PODPOI into traditional investment processes, Richard Brandweiner, president of the CFA Society of Sydney who has just started as director investment services for First State Super, urged superannuation funds to look to the category ...

CFSGAM to create global responsible investment committee

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... individual team reports from around its offices. For example, the global listed infrastructure securities fund, based out of Sydney, highlighted engagement with SP Austnet over its management structure. "SP Ausnet, an Australian regulated utility, has ...

Publish What You Pay reexamining extractive companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... and payment disclosure, and will be launched at the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) conference in Sydney in May, said Claire Spoors, PWYP Australia coordinator. "This time, we're going to look at ASX200 extractive companies to see ...

City of Sydney signs first environmental upgrade agreement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
Eureka Funds Management and Frasers Property have signed the City of Sydney's first environmental upgrade agreement (EUA) - a $26.5 million financing deal that will fund the construction of a gas-powered trigeneration plant to provide energy to an upcoming ...

The hidden movement: how responsible brands strike back

STEPHEN HALE  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... welcomes this comment from Stephen Hale, a director at Core and former founding MD of OgilvyEarth. Core is an independent Sydney-based marketing and strategy agency Stephen Hale The other day a well known marketing director asked me, "Has the green product ...