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Coronavirus forcing companies to virtual AGMs, full proxy voting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... watch the webcast of the AGM, register their votes before the AGM and submit questions before the AGM. In March, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) announced they would take no action if AGMs for companies whose financial years ...

Analysis: climate change, Australia and the fierce urgency of now

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... address climate change, NGOs pressing for corporate action are gearing up for new levels of intensity as well. The Australian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR) will continue its campaigns in designing and organising support for resolutions at ...

ACCR files shareholder resolution with BHP over industry associations

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2019  |  NEWS
... on balance, inconsistency with the Paris Agreement's goals.' BHP is a member of several industry associations: the Australian Industry Greenhouse Network, the Australian Institute of Petroleum, the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association ...

Future Super divests from companies with no women on boards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2019  |  NEWS
... gender pay gaps," she said. "Given that super funds own 50% of the ASX, they could be doing a lot to help the average Australian woman who works for an ASX100, ASX200 company." Last year, Future Super commissioned Gender pay equity and Australian listed ...

Woolworths Group to become first Australian retailer to issue Green Bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2019  |  NEWS
... Woolworths Group has recently delivered or is in the process of delivering, including the introduction of the Energy Management Centre to monitor and manage energy consumption; energy efficient LED lighting and hybrid or HFC-free refrigeration systems ...

ACCR planning to lodge resolutions at Santos, Woodside Petroleum AGMs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
... in Australia. Santos and Woodside are members of a number of groups that take adverse climate positions, including Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association (APPEA) and the Business Council of Australia. ACCR believes that both companies ...

ACCR files resolution to Qantas AGM over deportations and removals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2018  |  NEWS
... diligence process in relation to any involuntary transportation activity it is involved in as a service provider to the Australian Department of Home Affairs." "Our concern is the business risk to Qantas over the activities relating to deporting or forcibly ...

US activists target banks over finance to for-profit prisons, detention centres

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018  |  NEWS
... Business in Abuse campaign, which targeted Broadspectrum (now part of Ferrovial) for taking on a contract with the Australian government on 24 February 2014 to provide garrison and welfare services at detention centres in Nauru and Manus Island, aand ...

ACCR, CAER study gender pay gap at ASX100 companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... Corporate Responsibility (ACCR) and CAER. Brynn O'Brien, executive director, ACCR The report, Gender pay equity and Australian listed companies, ranks ASX100 companies required to disclose to the Australian government's Workplace Gender Equality Agency ...

New reporting tool to improve Australian packaging sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
... in 2016, they couldn't have known that it would lead to a revolution in packaging performance reporting for over 900 Australian companies. Alison Atherton, Research Principal at Institute for Sustainable Futures at the University of Technology Sydney ...