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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Aug 2010
John M Green
suggests business should demand as much from politicians as politicians do from business.
Double standards
Recently, two newspaper articles stared up from the same front page. In one, the corporate regulator rightly warned companies not to issue misleading profit fig...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Jun 2010
Gabrielle Upton
reports on a recent panel discussion that focused on what will be expected of directors under new work health and safety laws.
Taking the lead in workplace safety
In December 2009, the Workplace Relations Ministers Council endorsed the Model Work Health and Safety Bil...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 May 2010
John M Green
suggests it may not be the proxy advisory firms that are the problem, but some of the institutions that hire them.
Proxy by proxy
During each year’s annual general meeting season, directors come out blasting at corporate governance proxy advisory firms. It’s mostly d...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Apr 2010
Maurice Baroni
reviews a recent High Court case that places employers in a better position to argue, where appropriate, that it is not reasonably practicable to comply with NSW OH&S obligations.
Easing the OH&S burden
The High Court recently handed down a decision that clarifies ...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Apr 2010
Tony Featherstone
discusses how proposed reforms will make due diligence easier for directors considering not-for-profit boards.
Reforming the NFP sector
Finally, real reform is being proposed for Australia’s not-for-profit (NFP) sector. After 15 years of proposals and promises, many...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Apr 2010
Tony Featherstone
reports on how a raft of reform proposals may give the long-neglected not-for-profit sector a helping hand and free up its executives and directors to do what they do best: help make a better community.
NFP reform
Key points
NFP ...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Oct 2009
Most directors will face a conflict of interest at some time in their careers.
Domini Stuart
investigates how they could arise and how they should be handled.
The black, white and grey of conflicts of interest
Key Points
Most directors will face a conflict of interest at some po...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Sep 2009
Andrew Donovan
and
Peter Tunjic
examine what they call the four functions of directorship.
Directorship made simple
We live in the age of Google governance – an immense fog of ideas and processes as high as it is wide. Everything appears to compete with everything else for the at...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Jul 2009
Swimming between the flags
The market downturn has highlighted how exposed many Australian retail investors are to flawed business models and failed investments. In too many cases this has caused them devastating financial losses.
There are many dimensions to poor financial outcomes for retail inve...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Dec 2008
Gabrielle Upton
flags the key policy trends likely to affect directors and their activities in the coming year.
Seeing the wood and the trees
Directors need to keep their eye on the big picture as much as the detail of law – they need to see the wood as well as the trees. Policy trends a...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Nov 2008
Renee Garner
and
Paul Branston
discuss the legal consequences for directors of climate change policy.
The legal ins and outs of climate change
Australia is in the process of undergoing significant economic reform in response to concerns about climate change. It is not surpr...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Mar 2008
The costs to companies that view compliance as an optional extra can be enormous.
David Grace
and
Andrew Corkhill
detail why a culture of compliance should become more than just rhetoric.
Profiting from compliance
The culture of business has changed substantially du...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Feb 2008
An outline of some of the issues addressed by AICD’s policy department, committees and taskforces during the last month.
Australian Law Reform Commission Review of Australian Privacy Law: Discussion Paper 72
AICD recently lodged a submission with the ALRC on privacy law which supported a s...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 May 2007
Can a company’s constitution bind members?
– a case involving dispute resolution procedures
Can a company’s constitution bind members? – a case involving dispute resolution procedures
Section 140 of the Corporations Act (Act) is one of the critical and most important provisions which impact...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Dec 2006
The new members of the board of the AICD give their views on the challenges facing directors over the next few years and how the AICD can assist its members in both keeping up-to-date with legislative changes and their duties as directors.
AICD announces new chairman and directors
The Australi...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Dec 2006
Professor
Bob Baxt
provides an overview of recent court decisions affecting the role and responsibility of directors. Many of the matters examined in the Law Reporter are discussed in greater detail in The Baxt Report published by Thomson Publishing.
Getting serious abou...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Nov 2006
Open disclosure
According to Leigh Warnick, a partner with Blake Dawson Waldron, the board of every listed disclosing entity must adopt and maintain an effective continuous disclosure system (CDS). A CDS must be tailored to suit an individual entity’s needs, but a best-practice CDS has four parts:
P...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Nov 2006
There is an old saying that failing to plan means planning to fail. With the business environment becoming more volatile it is essential that directors engage in strategic thinking about where the company will be in three to five years time. Domini Stuart outlines why this is a vital function for di...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Nov 2006
Disclosure obligations: some recent lessons
A recent judgement by the Federal Court gives some useful lessons for listed entities wanting to minimise the consequences of breaching disclosure obligations.
In 2004, ASIC started civil penalty proceedings against Chemeq Ltd, a company which produces a ...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Oct 2006
Don Smallwood, Oracle’s senior director of marketing for Australia and New Zealand, outlines how efficient information management starts by recognising that data can be classified into different lifecycles.
Information lifecycle management
Although most organisations have long regarded thei...