2 May 2025

Final guidelines for sustainability reporting


GILES RAFFERTY, Media and Corporate Communications ASIC has finalised its guidance for the mandatory climate reporting that came into force in Australia on the 1st of January this year. Regulatory Guide 280 – Sustainability reporting  was published on 31st of March following an extensive public consultation that included 60 submissions since the draft guidance was […]

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28 March 2025

Economic optimism deficit as trust declines


GILES RAFFERTY Media and Corporate Communications An unprecedented decline in the number of employees who trust their employer to do the right thing – dropping three points globally – as revealed by the 2025 Edelman Trust Barometer is mirrored in Australia where employee trust in their employer dropped 2 points. The Edelman Trust Barometer is […]

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5 March 2025

ESG reporting buffeted by winds of change


SALONI SURI, Shareholder Analytics and Investor Relations Australia’s new mandatory climate reporting regime came into force from the start of this year. As it is rolled out, listed and private companies, alongside financial institutions, will need to disclose information about their climate-related risks and opportunities in a ‘Sustainability Report’. For the year commencing 1 January […]

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29 January 2025

ESG is dead, long live ESG!


GILES RAFFERTY, Media and Financial PR As Trump 2.0 begins to coalesce, are the requirements for Companies to report on greenhouse gas emissions going up in smoke? A quick review of headlines such as: ‘Coalition vows to scrap emissions reporting as Trump prepares rollback’ – AFR, 2 January 2025, ‘Investor climate group suspends activities after […]

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28 November 2024

2024 a year of predictable unpredictability


GILES RAFFERTY, Media and Financial PR Whether it is ongoing climate change, Donald Trump having another tilt at the US presidency or the emergence of AI, these are all events that have been predicted. How they played out and what impacts they will have are very much subject to unpredictability. The recently published CSIRO/Bureau of […]

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