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First Nations NFP mandates JANA

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2025  |  NEWS
JANA has won a mandate from not-for-profit Aboriginal Investment NT to bolster its $655 million commercial investment portfolio (CIP). Aboriginal Investment NT's purpose is to promote the self-management, economic self-sufficiency, and social and ...

Macquarie, Westpac invest in social enterprise fund

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... designed to help residents in rural, regional or remote communities, those aged 65 and over, people with disabilities, First Nations Australians, migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, individuals ...

ASFA acts to remove First Nations access issues

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... Financial Hardship Withdrawals for member consultation, marking a significant "milestone" in making it easier for First Nations people to access their superannuation. The guidance note is developed in collaboration with the First Nations Foundation (FNF) ...

Coalition plans to scrap climate reporting

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... Internationally, regulators are ramping up efforts on sustainability reporting standardisation. While Australia was one of the first nations to mandate International Sustainability Standards Board-aligned (ISSB) reporting standards - which came into ...

Aussie billionaires make $67k per hour: Oxfam

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... impacts of colonialism's deeply harmful and divisive racist legacy can be seen here today, where a third of the First Nations peoples are in the poorest 20% of the population," Oxfam Australia chief executive Lyn Morgain said. "As the federal election ...

Podcast: Overcoming barriers to financing the First Nations business sector with Jake Berthelot

THE GREENER WAY  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
First Nations businesses in Australia face many barriers to accessing financing, including historically exclusionary policies, institutional barriers, and lack of capital. So today, we are tackling the topic of overcoming these barriers. Jake Berthelot ...

Green Moves: S&P, SBTi, Macquarie, Anti-Slavery Commissioner

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... Bennett as a non-executive director. Bennett, a Wiradjuri woman, focuses on supporting the financial wellbeing of First Nations peoples. Firesticks is an Indigenous-led organisation which implements Indigenous land management practices such as cultural ...

Investors zero in on nature, human rights nexus

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... welcomed the framework. "For Australia, the human rights and nature nexus is particularly important given our countries First Nations Peoples," Julia Leske, ISS ESG managing director and senior consultant ESG strategy said. Around the world three people ...

Investors welcome Future Made in Australia bills

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... production tax incentive for hydrogen and critical minerals, which allows Indigenous Business Australia to invest in First Nations communities. Specialist global investment manager Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners said the bill is critically important ...

Shared equity to build intergenerational wealth

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... partnerships with industry and government on renewables and extractive projects where there are shared interests. First Nations Projects Group (FNPG) and the Australian Sustainable Finance Institute (ASFI) this week announced a partnership to create ...
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