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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Jun 2010
As part of his opening address to the
Company Directors Conference, Directorship: 10
, in New Zealand last month, chairman Rick Lee discussed how the Australian Institute of Company Directors aimed to provide leadership on issues of importance to directors.
Making a...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Feb 2010
Mary Verschuer
examines the challenges faced by Australian directors following the recent Copenhagen climate summit.
Post-Copenhagen climate change challenges
The outcome of the Copenhagen climate summit was somewhat less than expected. Many hoped for some certainty about the cons...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Dec 2009
The Productivity Commission is due to submit its final report on executive remuneration to the Government later this month.
Paul Quinn
explains why he believes some of its recommendations need to be reworked.
Making exec pay PC
The reaction to the Productivity Commission’s (PC) disc...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Nov 2009
A peek at some of the issues directors need to consider as we edge into an increasingly carbon-constrained business world.
Climate change update
Corporate Australia has passed a key first hurdle with flying colours as it enters a new carbon constrained world.
The Department of Climate Change’s...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Sep 2008
Dr Russell Hoye
explores the unique world and challenges faced by directors of professional sport leagues and clubs in Australia.
A different playing field
Australia has, arguably, the most competitive professional sport marketplace in the world, with four major football codes, a natio...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 May 2008
Engaging shareholders
Australia is confronted by unprecedented challenges driven by turmoil within global financial markets. Inadequacies have been revealed within the operations and regulation of our markets, and there is evidence of excesses that are inevitably associated with periods of sustaine...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Feb 2008
Fremantle Ports, WA’s principal trade gateway, is working hard to tackle the challenges and opportunities created by the state’s booming economy.
Staying ahead of the boom
WA’s powerhouse economy, linked to the surging economies of China and India, is creating both opportunities and challen...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Dec 2007
Telstra chairman Donald McGauchie believes that government intervention is hampering
Australia’s – and Telstra’s – competitiveness in a world of ever-increasing productivity.
No more meddling please
This year marks the 200th anniversary of Australia’s first shipment of wool to the then...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Aug 2007
While they are giving much more away, Australian businesses are no longer just writing cheques to whoever has their hands out. As Alan Deans discovers, there must be a hard-nosed business case before organisations will part with their money.
The science of giving
Within days of the controve...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Aug 2007
A record number of ASIC prosecutions
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s (ASIC) has revealed that it was involved in a record number of prosecutions in the financial year to June 2007.
During the 12 months, it successfully prosecuted 561 company officers for 1,133 contraventions o...
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Content Type:
Media Release
12 Dec 2006
For immediate release
Sydney, 12 December 2006
The Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) supports today’s report The Social Responsibility of Corporations released by the Corporations and Markets Advisory Committee (CAMAC) that outlines suitable laws are already in place to al...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Oct 2006
Robert Elstone, Elizabeth Johnstone and Charles Macek argue that directors need to be courageous in encouraging management to adopt a long term strategic focus – and not focus entirely on short-term financial performance.
Some challenges for directors in short termism
In previous articles we c...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Aug 2006
The not-for-profit sector in Australia is both more diverse and much bigger in its economic significance than most people realise. It also involves numerous complex issues for directors. Domini Stuart reports.
No profits but big returns
The economic contribution of the not-for-profit (NFP)...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Apr 2006
Clarity, simplicity and performance
For business, the turn of the century was a giant rolling wave. It welled up with the first internet boom in the 1990s and then came crashing down over us with the collapses of HIH and Enron, and other disasters around the world. Inevitably, there followed ...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Mar 2006
The Tone at the Top
Michael Wilson questions whether good corporate governance has a direct impact on a company’s value and provides guidelines for effective governance risk management.
Is there a direct link between good corporate governance and valuation? The answer really isn’t clear. There are t...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Feb 2006
Change is inevitable…adapting is crucial
Change has never more been apparent than in today’s corporate arena. People, and the businesses they run, are no longer constrained by the four walls of their corporate headquarters. The phenomena of globalisation, emerging technologies, cultural shift...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Jan 2006
The rules of engagement
Even the most vigilant company can find itself caught in the public firing line as a result of an unexpected crisis. As Bruce C. Wolpe explains, this is not the time to consider ‘hedging the truth’ – especially when it comes to communicating with the media.
While head ...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Nov 2005
Too much governance?
Chris Pearce, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer, is surely right when he says it is time for Australia to take a pause in the introduction of new and intrusive regulation in corporate governance. The Prime Minister and the Business Council are on to something as well ...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Sep 2005
The director duties debate
There is ongoing discussion on director duties and how far they should extend. Bill Beerworth* puts a new twist on an old debate
Generations of lawyers have been taught that directors must discharge their duties in the interests of the corporation. This in t...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Feb 2004
As my friends and acquaintances are aware, I am partially deaf. I was diagnosed with nerve deafness in the mid-1970s after my parents took me to an audiologist to learn that my hearing was impaired in my left ear. Coping with childish phobias
As my friends and acquaintances are aware, I am partiall...