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Stakeholders weigh in on Nature Repair Market bill

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUN 2023  |  NEWS
... support and reservations over how a legislative framework for market-led biodiversity recovery would attract capital. The Senate Standing Committee on Environment and Communications received 75 submissions on the Nature Repair Market Bill 2023 and Nature ...

California considers bill to force fossil fuel divestment for CalPERS, CalSTRS

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... the California pension funds to divest from existing investments before 2030, passed its first committee hearing in the Senate Committee for Labor, Public Employment and Retirement. Four Senate committee members referred the bill to the Judiciary Committee ...

The four-day work week - will it work?

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... time when approximately 250,000 Australians are part of the gig economy and over 30% of the workforce are in the trades. A Senate committee inquiry recently recommended a national trial of the four-day week in Australia, proposing that the Fair Work ...

HESTA pushes legal alignment to UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous People

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
... Australasia (RIAA) and the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors were among organisations that made a submission to a Senate Inquiry into the application of UNDRIP in Australia. The inquiry is examining the potential of enacting UNDRIP in Australia ...

Ratification of Forced Labour Protocol to impact Modern Slavery Act

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2022  |  NEWS
... take positive steps to eradicate modern slavery," the ban on goods produced by forced labour that has been passed by the Senate but not the House of Representatives, and remediation for victims of modern slavery. There have been calls for the federal ...

Proxy adviser reforms overturned by Senate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
The Senate has overturned proxy advice reforms announced at the end of last year, three days after the new regime had begun. On a vote of 29 votes to 25, the Senate disallowed the new regulations that were announced by Treasurer Josh Frydenberg in December ...

Earth Day brings tidings of climate change commitments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2021  |  NEWS
... continued low natural gas prices, infrastructural obstacles and potential pushback from Republicans in a highly divided Senate. "We believe the Biden administration's key challenge will be maximizing the incentives to scale advanced and knowledge-intensive ...

Climate change, SDG impacts of US election

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... their transition teams and assembling the future cabinet. The Republican Party looked on track to retain control of the Senate, while the Democratic Party retained control of the House, with precise numbers of the party splits still being settled. Biden ...

Considering potential ESG implications of the US election

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... market participants responded to the near term uncertainty and attempted to forecast potential outcomes of the presidential, Senate and House elections. Like many around the world, FS Sustainability has published this week without knowing the result ...

Governance Institute backs recommendations for virtual AGMs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
The Governance Institute of Australia is backing recommendations from a Senate committee to amend the Corporations Act to allow virtual and hybrid annual general meetings. The Senate Select Committee on Financial Technology and Regulatory Technology ...

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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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