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Majority of ASX200 lack formal labour, human rights policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... temporary staff. Labour controversies were more prevalent than human rights controversies in ASX200 companies. The materials, consumer staples, industrials and consumer discretionary sectors notably have the highest frequency of labour rights controversies. ...

Carbon price to bring reporting and compliance complexities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... going to be assessed and attributed in a company's books. The reason for that is that the [ Australian Competition and Consumer Commission ] ACCC has a hell of a lot of additional funding to look at price gouging. They have come out and said we are going ...

Calls for expedited reduction of SRES multiplier

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
A debate has emerged over whether the federal government should wind back the Small Scale Renewable Energy Scheme (SRES) multiplier more quickly than the default timetable, with supporters saying that a potential oversupply in the number of SRES for ...

NAB partners to launch Victorian microfinance retail hubs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... shows that were banks able to offer, or interested in offering, financial products and services, there is massively unmet consumer demand in that 15% of the adult population." Although this is the first retail hub offering of its type anywhere in the ...

CSA warns on timing of undirected proxy vote legislation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2012  |  NEWS
... government has proposed adding the "short and uncontentious" amendment to another," more controversial and unrelated" Consumer Credit Amendment Bill that will be reintroduced to Parliament in the week of 21 May. "By relegating the reintroduction of the ...

DEXUS head office, Republica Coffee declared carbon neutral

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
Republica Coffee and the head office of DEXUS Property Group has been certified carbon neutral by Low Carbon Australia. Republica was certified under the National Carbon Offset Scheme Carbon Neutral Program by measuring its greenhouse gas emissions ...

KPMG: agribusiness needs national food policy framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
The fragmentation of the agribusiness sector both contributes to and is hampered by the lack of a national food policy framework, which is necessary to promote innovation and differentiation and to ensure the long-term social, environmental and economic ...

Managing regulatory impacts priority for CSR practitioners

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... traditional terms. But some organisations are discovering that CSR can actually create new opportunities for them - and meet consumer desires for more environmentally and socially responsible products and services." More than two-thirds of respondents ...

Superannuation to heed call for greater disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
Regulators and other stakeholder are asking the AU$1.4tr superannuation fund industry to increase their disclosure of asset holdings. While the industry is responding to those calls, their proposals are tempered by the context of providing meaningful ...

GRI establishing working groups for G4

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is continuing to set up working groups for the development of the G4 next generation reporting guidelines. While nominations for the Disclosure on Management Approach working group close as of 13 January, more working ...