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HESTA chief executive Debby Blakey is optimistic Australia will not roll back its gender diversity targets.

Australia won’t follow Trump’s anti-diversity push, super fund boss says

The head of one of the nation’s largest super funds says the belief in “inclusive and equitable leadership” is firmly entrenched in Australia’s business world.

  • Sumeyya Ilanbey

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HESTA chief executive Debbie Blakey wants companies to set gender targets across the entire organisation.

HESTA pressures Australia’s largest companies to adopt gender targets across entire organisation

The $87 billion fund has written to the ASX 300 companies it invests in to commit to ensuring 40 per cent of its staff are women.

  • Sumeyya Ilanbey
Jazmine Claveria with children Hugo, 2, and Penelope, eight months.

Jazmin and her husband work in the same industry, but she has less super

Women retire with about one-third less superannuation than men, but former health minister Nicola Roxon wants the government to pay super on parental leave.

  • Wendy Tuohy
Industry superannuation funds say with the right policies they will be able to invest in electricity transmission lines and batteries.

Clean energy could be super for industry funds

Industry super funds are calling for tax and planning changes from all levels of government, so they can invest in the nation’s new energy networks.

  • Shane Wright
Qantas will hold what is set to be a fiery AGM in early November.

Qantas crisis puts social licence back on corporate agenda

The royal commission into financial services and Rio Tinto’s Juukan Gorge disaster in 2020 have also made social licence an important benchmark for investors.

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Companies are failing to back up their decarbonisation plans with capital, a big global investor initiative has found.

Top emitters not funding net zero plans, warns Climate Action 100+

Australia’s top carbon emitting companies are making progress towards transitioning to net zero emissions, but failing to back up their decarbonisation plans.

  • Simon Johanson
The ATO will be given more money to identify the non-payment and underpayment of super

Super on paid parental leave a missed budget opportunity

Women will continue to forgo thousands of dollars in superannuation as long as super is not paid on the Commonwealth Parental Leave Pay scheme.

  • John Collett
HESTA CEO Debby Blakey says there is inequality within the superannuation system that needs to be addressed.

The ‘uncomfortable topic’ that worries $70 billion super fund boss

HESTA chief Debby Blakey says this is the year to make the system fairer, including introducing super on paid parental leave.

  • Simone Fox Koob
HESTA’s general manager of responsible investment Kim Farrant.

How a stint in Sweden became the ‘turning point’ for this super fund exec’s career

Kim Farrant was a university student working in Sweden when she realised something about Australia that sparked a pivot in her career.

  • Simone Fox Koob

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