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To be good corporate citizens, banks must improve their sustainability reportingBy Sara Bice, University of Melbourne: Originally published in The Conversation“Events over the past couple of years have...
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Show me the money: should big miners be made to disclose who they pay?By Sara Bice, University of Melbourne: Originally published in The ConversationYou’re unlikely to find an accountant beside the...
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Firms with benefits: B Corporations and the future of businessBy Sara Bice, University of Melbourne: Originally published in The ConversationThe recent financial shenanigans of high-wealth individuals...
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Is the next mining boom on the ocean floor?By Sara Bice, University of Melbourne: Originally published in The ConversationDefence behemoth Lockheed Martin’s recent announcement of a venture into deep...
View Article"One needs to understand one's business from beginning to end"
In Conversation with Professor Jeremy Moon. FULL TRANSCRIPT2 May 2013, Melbourne AustraliaJeremy Moon is Professor and founding Director of the International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility,...
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Big miners' community engagement doing more harm than good?
Are the corporate social responsibility programs of Australia's mining companies meeting community needs for sustainable futures? This was one of the main questions I explored during a recent three...
View ArticleCentre for Applied Social Research Seminar: 19 June 2013
'Are big miners' community engagements doing more harm than good?'I'm looking forward to an engaging discussion at RMIT's Centre for Applied Social Research on Wednesday, 19 June. If you're in...
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Beyond the talk to action: When does transparency translate to accountability?
Originally published in The ConversationGlobal miners are being asked to publish what they pay, but is transparency enough?This was the hard question being asked of governments, mining and extractive...
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Australian Mining and the 'Asian Century'
Originally published in Australian Resources & Investment, June 2013The rise of Asia will be a defining feature of the 21st century. By 2050, China is tipped to attain a global economic dominance...
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Corporate social responsibility and impact assessment: Two keeps to the same...
Earlier this year, I attended the International Association for Impact Assessment's (IAIA) annual conference in Calgary, Canada. I got to meet some incredible people and get my poutine fix. Score!...
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Regulating Financial Transparency: Recent Developments
About a year ago, I wrote about trends in transparent financial disclosure, including the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) and emerging legislation (ARI, December 2012). At the...
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The End of Days for CSR?
"CSR is dead." A handy and provocative phrase. Short. To the point. Confident. CSR: It's not dead. It's undead.And it's become one I've heard more frequently in the past 12 months; at conferences and...
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Ok Tedi immunity gone, implications beyond BHP
Remote Mount Fubilan, near the source of Papua New Guinea’s Tedi River, is once again the site of global controversy surrounding the Ok Tedi copper gold mine.Since the late 1980s, Ok Tedi has...
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Abbott government may have new rhetoric, but it's still the 'Asian century'
with Helen Sullivan, The University of MelbourneOn 9-10 December, the Melbourne School of Government had the pleasure of hosting its first international conference on the theme of Public Policy in the...
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What gives you a social licence?
The term 'social licence to operate' is ubiquitous in the mining industry. But exploration geologists and mining company representatives aren't whipping it out of their wallets. It remains purely...
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Can Corporate Governance Guidelines encourage better investor-company...
On Monday, the Governance Institute of Australia released their Principles and Guidelines for 'Improving engagement between ASX-listed companies and their institutional investors'.The Guidelines...
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From divestments to protests, social licence is the key
A licence to dig is no longer enough for today’s mining and extractive companies. Stakeholder approval is progressively becoming a “must have” for mining companies around the globe — a requirement...
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G20: Time to refocus on energy
Will Howard, Sara Bice and Mike SandifordOver the next two days, G20 leaders will be attempting to ‘strengthen energy markets’ as one of the Summit’s agenda priorities.The G20’s official website states...
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Battling the 'resource curse' in frontier mineral economies
Frontier economies home to untapped mineral wealth offer exceptional opportunities for corporate profit and local socio-economic growth. But such growth potential brings with it substantial challenges...
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Out of the regulatory soup: Evolving to a whole of resource approach
Any experienced resources developer is familiar with the sticky complexities of red and green tape governing the industry. Where bureaucracy or regulation is excessive, business bears the cost....
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