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01 Apr 2013
In her final column, Belinda Gibson outlines what ASIC is doing to uphold Australia’s market integrity.
It has been my privilege to contribute to this magazine for over five years, but this will be the last, as my term as the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) deputy ch...
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01 Apr 2013
Professor Bob Baxt reviews some recent court cases that highlight the importance of ensuring your companies have a proper culture of compliance in place.
Directors, senior managers and officers of companies in Australia (referred to as directors here) are, of course, very familiar with spec...
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01 Mar 2013
Praveen Gupta outlines some of the proposed reforms to corporate law that could change the way companies operate in India.
Back in the 1950s, as a young republic, India chose to tread the socialistic path. Not surprisingly, the nationalisation of the following ensued: airline industry (1...
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01 Mar 2013
Michael Tooma outlines the lessons Australian directors can learn from New Zealand’s Pike River Mine disaster that killed 29 miners in November 2010.
At one level, the New Zealand report, Royal Commission on the Pike River Coal Mine Tragedy, reads like so many reports before it – another ...
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01 Mar 2013
Domini Stuart finds out how four of Australia’s younger directors got their start in the boardroom and the lessons they’ve learnt since then.
In the old days, Australian boards could be described as "pale, male and stale", consisting almost entirely of men over 60 with sufficient grey hai...
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01 Nov 2012
Tony Featherstone examines the many hurdles faced by mining boards and provides some tips on how directors can overcome them.
Spare a thought for Australia’s resource sector. It faces a perfect storm of falling commodity prices, rising costs, new federal and state government taxes and roy...
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01 Oct 2012
John Price explains how new capital raising rules for small to mid-cap listed companies will work and the issues their directors should consider.
Share placements have been a popular way of raising funds in recent years, particularly for smaller companies. Australian Securities Exchange (...
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01 Sep 2012
In a recent address, Mission Australia chairman Ewen Crouch outlined his concerns about proposed NFP reforms. An edited extract of his speech follows.
The Government has released an exposure draft of the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission Bill 2012, which will establish ...
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01 Aug 2012
As directors sit down to review their companies’ accounts this month, Domini Stuart examines how the Centro case may have changed boardroom behaviour.
Just over a year ago, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) hailed the Federal Court’s verdict against eight directo...
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01 Mar 2012
Jacinta Cubis and Holly Lindsay argue that WikiLeaks holds valuable lessons for boards when it comes to whistleblowing.
WikiLeaks first caught the world’s attention in April 2010 with the release of a leaked video filmed by US troops in Iraq. The video showed US combat forces targeting a...