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A rushed move to virtual AGMs would disempower shareholders
Ian Ramsay & Lloyd Freeburn,, The Conversation, 03 November 2020Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg seems to have backed down from his push to make virtual annual general meetings permanent. The draft legislation that would have allowed investors and others just 12 days to comment on the legislation has been extended by seven days after the process was...
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Biden in the boardroom: what to expect on corporate governance
Michael Peregrine, Forbes, 08 October 2020A Biden Administration will have a notable impact on corporate governance, both through its proposals and policies. Most notably, a Biden Administration is likely to be supportive of corporate social responsibility concepts, and other methods of what it means to be a "values-driven company". Policy initiatives will likely change corporate...
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Ministers increasingly bypassing parliament to create laws, study finds
Christopher Knaus, The Guardian, 28 September 2020Federal Government Ministers are increasingly bypassing the Australian Parliament to create laws, according to a new study. The Centre for Public Integrity research found there has been a "dramatic increase" in major policy decisions being made without parliamentary scrutiny.
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Getting communication right
GovComms Podcast, contentgroup, 14 September 2020Trish Johnston, Assistant Secretary at the Communications Advice Branch at the Australian Government Department of Finance, discusses how to embed communications strategy in every conversation, and how to deal with government policy when faced with complex communications decisions.
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Alibaba tells Trump ‘we support American brands’
BBC News, 21 August 2020Alibaba has moved to ease tensions with Donald Trump, after the President signed two executive orders targeting the Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok and messaging platform WeChat.
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Taken for granted? Charities’ role in our economic recovery
06 August 2020Social Ventures Australia and The Centre for Social Impact investigate the state of Australian charities during COVID-19, and how decisions made now will strongly impact whether charities will be “COVID-19 casualties or partners in recovery.” This third report updates the modelling presented in a previous report published in June 2020, and...
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Step up climate action or face catastrophe, says UN report
Barbara Bibbo, Al Jazeera, Wednesday 27th November 2019 , 24 November 2019 Countries must cut their greenhouse gas emissions well beyond current pledges in order to prevent catastrophic climate change, according to a United Nations report released on Tuesday. The annual Emissions Gap Report points out the United States and China, Russia and the European Union particularly as doing too little to tackle the climate crisis....
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Disney’s CEO Gets Why Employees Want Their Bosses to Be More Political
Rachel Gutman, The Atlantic, Wednesday 25th September, 2019, 25 September 2019 Walt Disney Company chairman and CEO, Bob Iger says the most influential companies in the United States have a duty to effect social change and fill in public policy gaps on behalf of employees. Iger, who considered running in the 2020 Presidential Election said his employees’ trust in the government has dwindled and that they are turning to...
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Government orders Google not to restrict employees’ free speech
Annie Palmer, CNBC, Thursday 12th September, 2019, 11 September 2019 Google has been told by the National Labor Relations Board that it is within employees’ rights to openly debate political and workplace issues. This decision comes after a controversial community guideline sent by CEO Sundar Pichai in August ruled against such discussions in Google’s offices and online forums. In a series of employee complaints...
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Amazon, Facebook and Google hit back at tax on digital companies’ sales, warn of trade wars
Nassim Khadem, ABC News, Tuesday 3rd September, 2019, 03 September 2019 Tech giants Amazon, Facebook and Google are the targets of a suggested tax on sales as the Australian Government discusses an OECD and G20 plan to resolve tax avoidance in the digital economy. Europe are already acting, with the French Senate recently passing a three per cent turnover levy that will apply to companies with more than 25 million...
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