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Clean Energy Council chief resigns

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
... campaign, Clean Energy Works for Australia, to inform the public about clean energy in the lead up to the 2025 Federal Election and beyond. Thornton commented that it has been "an extraordinary privilege to lead the Clean Energy Council and be at the ...

Labor win 'a referendum on renewable energy'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
The Clean Energy Council says the Albanese government's landslide win in the federal election was a vote of confidence by the Australian people in the nation's clean energy future. Clean Energy Council chief executive Kane Thornton said Labor's win ...

Countdown to RIAA conference is on

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2025  |  NEWS
... co-chief executive, said the conference will provide a timely platform for the industry to discuss possible reforms post-election. Parker said: "We've got our conference less than four weeks after the Australian election, so we will be covering this ...

Trump presidency pushes Aussies to ethical super fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2025  |  NEWS
... Essential Research, finding that 25% of respondents were more likely to favour ethical investments because of Trump's election. Just 7% said it would make them much less likely to support ethical investments. "What we know is that our members care ...

Green technology, clean energy receive Budget boost

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... host UN COP31 climate conference in 2026, which is an expensive task, it said, while pointing the budget restraint as an election strategy. "The government has bet on cost-of-living measures and budget restraint as an election winning strategy, and will ...

Net zero, energy transition key election items: Grattan

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
Ahead of the federal election, the Grattan Institute has highlighted the move to net zero and energy transition as areas that should be prioritised by whoever wins. In terms of major reforms Grattan is calling for to achieve a net-zero economy, the ...

Woodside investors urged to sack the board over dud returns

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... directors for chronically weak returns and climate risk failures. The ACCR filed members' statements opposing the re-election of all directors at the upcoming annual general meeting, arguing the board bears collective responsibility for the company's ...

US rejects SDGs, Agenda 2030

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... inconsistent with US sovereignty and adverse to the rights and interests of Americans," Heartney said. "In the last US election, the mandate from the American people was clear: the government of the United States must refocus on the interests of Americans. ...

Economists brace for an uncertain future

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... uncertain, according to Angela Jackson, lead economist at Impact Economics and Policy. With Australia heading into an election year, potential interest rate cuts, and the looming threat of a trade war, uncertainty is at the forefront of economists' ...

Investors still drawn to DEI

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... gender and racial and/or ethnic diversity of a company's board when making vote recommendations with respect to the election or re-election of directors at US companies under its Benchmark and Specialty policies" it said in a statement. It will continue ...
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