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Content Type:
Event
17 May 2012
Location: Melbourne, VIC
Directors need to put aside their personal or political beliefs and concerns and treat the new “low carbon economy” as a reality. As Directors you will need to understand the risks and opportunities to help you make decisions, as well as ensuring you are across the detail and have a firm grasp of y...
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Content Type:
The Boardroom Report
21 Mar 2012
More women on boards, New governance policy for super funds, ACNC start delayed by three months, New safety law requires better governance systems, Moving towards a mature business risk culture
More women on boards
Latest figures show the percentage of women holding directorships ...
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Content Type:
Media Release
01 Nov 2010
The burden of laws imposing personal liability on directors is stifling business decision- making, a survey released today by the Australian Institute of Company Directors reveals.
The key findings of the survey show that liability is having a serious detrimental impact on key aspects of corp...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Sep 2010
Euan Campbell
explains why no board can hide its head in the sand when it comes to crisis-management and business-continuity planning.
Crisis denial
In an age where the unthinkable crisis event has become possible, there is an ever-increasing ...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Aug 2010
Tony Featherstone
advises directors to sharpen their skills ahead of a likely rise in mergers and acquisitions this year.
Time to brush up those takeover skills
Directors of listed companies should brush up their takeover skills. More mergers ...
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Content Type:
Position Paper
19 Jul 2010
The upcoming election (Federal Election 2010) is an important one for our nation. Regardless of which party forms the next government, it is an opportunity to rethink not only the way government approaches some key issues but how it conducts its relationship with business.
The Australian Institu...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Jul 2010
Australia will not thrive in the 21st century if it doesn’t overcome its infrastructure challenges.
Zilla Efrat
investigates how it can free up some of its bottlenecks.
Getting infrastructure back on track
It’s been estimated that Australia...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Jul 2010
Phil Ruthven
details the alarming rise in government debt across the globe but argues that Australians have less to lose sleep over.
Why debt matters
Unserviceable debt in the world’s finance industry, with total assets in excess of US$300 trillion, gave us the global financial crisis (...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Jul 2010
John M Green
believes business people should start thinking more like novelists.
Foresight saga
“In hindsight...” Painful, often embarrassing confessions sometimes begin with those words. It is only in the future that you know how smart you are in the present. It’s why hubris is such a ...
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Content Type:
Media Release
22 Jun 2010
The tragic event that claimed the lives of the Sundance Resources Limited board of directors is a shock to the Australian business and the resources industry.
The Australian Institute of Company Directors extends its heartfelt condolences and thoughts to the families, friends and loved o...
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Content Type:
Policy Submission
11 Jun 2010
Insider trading and market manipulation offences cause serious harm to the fair and efficient functioning of Australia’s financial markets. The Australian Institute of Company Directors supports strong laws and a well resourced regulator to enforce them. The consultation time allowed to comment on t...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Jun 2010
The global financial crisis appears to have blown darker clouds across Queensland than any other state.
Tony Featherstone
investigates the many challenges Sunshine State directors have to navigate as the gloom starts to lift.
Making a comeback
In its latest Business Outlook repor...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Jun 2010
A new breed of boards is likely to emerge as part of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s plan to reform the nation’s healthcare system.
Domini Stuart
gains some insights into how they could be created.
Building healthy boards
Challenges of sitting on a hospital board may include
A complex ...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Jun 2010
John M Green
believes the regulators should lighten up on continuous disclosure.
Killer T-shirts
What’s my daughter’s black T-shirt got to do with public companies continuously disclosing material information to the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX)? Oddly, it has quite a bit to do wi...