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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Feb 2013
Bruce Cowley and Steven Grant detail how the NSW Government has taken the lead in reducing laws imposing liability on directors for corporate fault.
One of the biggest issues of concern for company directors in recent years has been the explosion in the number of Commonwealth, state and t...
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Content Type:
Director Q and A
31 Jan 2013
Directors govern companies on behalf of the shareholder who elect them. All directors must comply with basic legal requirements under the Corporations Act 2001 which specifies four main duties for directors with a number of other areas of key responsibility. This Q&A runs through the role of dir...
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Content Type:
Director Q and A
31 Jan 2013
General meetings are governed in many respects by the Corporations Act 2001. This Q&A explains the legal requirements for valid meetings including the frequency, who may call a meeting, notice of meeting, quorum and chairing. It also explains the principles and rules of annual general meetings. ...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Dec 2012
Andrew Griffiths identifies some of the key challenges audit and risk committees may face in 2013.
As continuing economic volatility converges with sweeping regulatory change and an expanded focus on financial reporting, directors on audit and risk committees are likely to experience even...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Dec 2012
John M Green ponders what the year 2013 may hold for us.
Christmas is the time when people of all faiths join together in peace and harmony to rejoice in retail. Christmas is also about pausing, but only after you’ve finished shopping.
As the holiday season approaches, it’s wise to re...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Dec 2012
Some of the key highlights and policy priorities that shaped our agenda throughout 2013.
As 2012 draws to a close, I thought it appropriate to review some of the key highlights and policy priorities that have shaped our agenda throughout the past year. These priorities are selected for a ...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Dec 2012
Zilla Efrat asks some directors and advisers to forecast the risks that will keep directors up at night in 2013.
The directors
Elizabeth Carr FAICDChairman of the Macular Degeneration Foundation. Director of the Kokoda Track Foundation, Kambala Anglican School for Girls NSW and...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Dec 2012
Pru Bennett lists five ways in which she’d like to see the bedrocks of corporate governance improved in 2013.
Proxy season is always an intensive period for everyone involved. BlackRock, for instance, votes at around 250 listed company meetings between September and December. We have exte...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Dec 2012
Rick Lee and James Strong discuss past and future challenges as Company Directors’ leadership baton is handed over.
Rick Lee FAICDOutgoing chairman Australian Institute of Company Directors
Company Director (CD):
What has given you the greatest satisfaction as c...
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Content Type:
Media Release
14 Nov 2012
Director sentiment has reached its lowest level in two years in the face of increasing concerns about the health of the Asian economies and growing pessimism about Europe and the US.
According to the findings of the second half 2012 Director Sentiment Index*, which measures the opinions and futu...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Nov 2012
John H C Colvin explains how Company Directors is responding to the increasing stakeholder expectations of directors and how membership requirements are changing.
Our members who follow the news will no doubt agree that individual directors and boards are in the spotlight more than ever b...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Nov 2012
Michelle Wood discusses the challenges and opportunities in promoting the role of directors and their issues to the media, government and other stakeholders.
Company Director (CD):
What does your role entail?
Michelle Wood (MW): There are two compon...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Nov 2012
Keith De Lacy talks to Tony Featherstone about the deteriorating relationship between government and business in Australia, life after politics and the joys and challenges of being a company director.
A full-time board career is an obvious, orderly, linear progression for many directors a...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Nov 2012
Peter Yu talks to Zilla Efrat about how Indigenous governance is at the crossroads and how his career has evolved alongside changing political dynamics in Australia over the past four decades.
Peter Yu believes Indigenous governance is at the crossroads of massive change.
Yu, who is c...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Nov 2012
Do ex-politicians make good directors? Tony Featherstone discovers they could have much to offer, if only they would stop being politicians.
What ex-politicians can bring to the boardroom
The potential to lift the organisation’s profile and attract donations
An ability t...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Nov 2012
John M Green questions whether companies value culture and reputation highly enough.
In June, Barclays PLC’s outgoing chairman admitted the company’s role in the UK’s LIBOR inter-bank interest rate scandal had "dealt a devastating blow" to its reputation. Unsaid, but more important, was h...
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Content Type:
The Boardroom Report
31 Oct 2012
Proposals to clarify disclosure rules, Study reveals shortfalls in proxy voting system, Government streamlines NFP grant application requirements, Assessing how you are dealing with WHS changes, Innovation the secret to success
Proposals to clarify disclosure rules
The Australian Sec...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Jul 2012
Roger Hogan investigates what boards can do to steer their companies through what appears to be an increasingly disharmonious industrial relations landscape.
One measure of the importance and sensitivity company directors attach to the issue of workplace relations is that so few were prep...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Jul 2012
A look at why members are using Company Directors’ new Business Centre and Member Lounge and what they most enjoy about it.
Last month’s official launch of the Australian Institute of Company Directors’ new Business Centre and Member Lounge in Sydney drew a large crowd of members and guests.Las...
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Content Type:
Media Release
14 Jun 2012
Business sent a clear message to the Australian Government at yesterday’s economic forum that productivity growth is crucial for Australia’s long-term economic prosperity.
“The Prime Minister agreed that Australian governments must take a long term view to increase productivity and improve inter...