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Companies aware of Sustainable Development Goals: ACCSR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... the SDGs. Companies report that the most important of the goals for Australian and New Zealand businesses are gender equality, good health and wellbeing, and decent work and economic growth. "At ACCSR we've always worked with international frameworks ...

Financial Impact Action Plan program to target exclusion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2016  |  NEWS
... was that it is focused in women and girls. We are focused on women and girls primarily, and as a strategy for gender equality as a preventative and a responsive approach to family violence." Eleven organisations - Anglicare SA, ANZ Australia, Bank Australia ...

GRI, Danish Institute for Human Rights collaborate on reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2016  |  NEWS
... development and is essential to prosperity. We know that strong public institutions, healthy and educated people, and equality of opportunity are key drivers of economic growth." DIHR has collaborated with GRI for 15 years to promote human rights in ...

Social license to operate key to achieving sustainability goals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... the projects I've worked on that need a social license, they need it because the local communities are demanding more equality." Integrating the idea of maintaining a social license to operate with a stakeholder engagement strategy can be "transformative" ...

Mercer hires Yolanda Beattie as practice leader

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2016  |  NEWS
... diversity and inclusion practice leader, Mercer Beattie comes to Mercer from the Australian government's Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA), where she was executive manager strategy and engagement. She will spearhead the firm's diversity and inclusion ...

GRI, federal government, announce Pacific partnership

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2015  |  NEWS
... Meehan, GRI chief executive. "We'll be working to help businesses grow while increasing transparency, promoting gender equality and tackling corruption. We will also help the mining sector become a safer and more environmentally responsible industry." ...

Telstra publishes 2015 Sustainability Report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... company said. The company reported reducing lost time injury frequency rates (LITFR) to 0.98, down 12.5% on 2014. In gender equality, the company set a target of 30% of executive management positions for women in 2015, and hit 25.6%, a decrease from ...

Government retains gender equity reporting framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
Companies with more than 100 employees will continue reporting gender equality data to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA), but the government has removed several requirements that were due to commence in April. Lisa Annese, CEO, Diversity Council ...

Good Super appoints Andrew MacLeod as managing director

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... environmental issues facing Australia, including affordable housing, extreme poverty, land use, food security, gender equality, Indigenous health, efficient mass transit, social justice and human rights, corruption energy, clean drinking water and youth ...

ASX reports on progress towards gender diversity targets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... provide a definition of senior executive, and also allows those entities required to report under the Workplace Gender Equality Act to report their gender equality indicators in place of the statistics specified in the recommendation, ASX said. The third ...