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  • Interview QA with Howard McDonald

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Mar 2010

    Q&A with Howard McDonald On a muggy Melbourne morning, Howard McDonald MAICD arrives just in time for his interview with Company Director. The Myer Holdings chairman had been in meetings about the proposed café for Myer’s soon-to-be redeveloped flagship store. “I want the food offering to be bu...

  • National human rights consultation

    Content Type: Policy Submission

    12 Jun 2009

    AICD welcomes the opportunity to participate in the National Human Rights Consultation. The protection and promotion of human rights is a question of national importance for all Australians. We have focussed our comments on those matters relating to directors including the personal liability of dire...

  • Government Sector

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Nov 2006

    Many government enterprises are now operating in competitive business environments. As Kevin Forde discovered, in order to survive they have had to change their public service mentality, retrain their staff, and get closer to their customers. Breaking down bureaucracy If you read the annual re...

  • ceo report clarity simplicity and performance

    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 ...

  • Greaves case responsibiliites and liabilities

    Content Type: Position Paper

    23 Feb 2006

    This position paper sets out what the AICD believes to represent the expectations of the corporate community in Australia as to the responsibilities and liabilities of a company chairman. It places the Greaves case in context, outlines the role of the chairman, comments on the question of liability ...

  • the director duties debate

    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...

  • Managing the obligations Risk Management

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 May 2004

    Are you a company director concerned about your governance and compliance obligations, and unsure how much you have to do to fulfil them? Managing the obligations Following the paper trail – How safe is it to rely on those management sign-offs? asks Jon Tyers* Are you a company director co...

  • the stragetic board The strategic board

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Mar 2004

    Corporate commentators are today virtually unanimous in their view that corporate boards are responsible for oversight of corporate mission, objectives and strategic direction. Indeed the phrase “the strategic board” has been coined to epitomise the mission-focussed and strategically-oriented board....