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      2011

• Calls for funds' executive pay rules to mirror those of listed companies don't go far enough — 19/12/11
• Make short-form governance report mandatory for all NFPs urges CSA — 14/12/11
• ASIC listing rule powers risk causing market havoc — 6/12/11
• UK exec remuneration inquiry should follow Australia's lead — but only part of the way — 28/11/11
• Directors face jail over new voting rules — 10/11/11 
• CSA welcomes prudential standards for the superannuation industry — 6/10/11 
• CSA launches Not-for-Profit Governance Initiative — 29/8/11 
• CSA advises the EU to 'comply or explain' — 21/7/11 
• Proposed not-for-profit reforms create a taxing problem for NFPs — 7/7/11  
• Opinion piece: Asking the 'dumb' questions — The Weekend AFR — 2–3/7/11  
• 'Plain-speaking' principles would assist shareholders in understanding financial information — 16/5/11 
• Director and officer liability — sense finally prevails! — 5/5/11
• Letter to Editor, AFR, Governance aids for directors — 1/5/11
• Beyond compliance — the clawback of executive remuneration — 29/3/11
• Risk management process to stop investors driving over the cliff — 28/2/11 
• Potential not-for-profit regulator lifts status of sector — 24/2/11
• Scholarship winners underline CSA's ongoing commitment to Australian public sector — 21/2/11 
• Opinion piece: ASX acid test — Business Spectator — 17/2/11
• Company secretaries — What hat are you wearing? — 21/1/11

      2010

• No two company secretaries are alike: so says the James Hardie judgement — 22/12/10
• "Two strikes and you're out" will disenfranchise shareholders — 20/12/10
• CSA welcomes Sons of Gwalia amendment — 29/11/10 
• ASX500 falls down on risk management — 23/11/10  
• Mum and Dad shareholders the winners as government amends Corporations Act — 19/11/10 
• Interview with CSA Chief Executive on proposed merger of ASX and SGX — Saturday Extra, ABC Radio National — 30/10/10 
• Opinion piece: A threat to ASX integrity — Business Spectator, 28/10/10
• Industry leads the way on protecting confidential, price-sensitive information — 26/10/10 
• ASX500 moving on diversity… but there is a long way to go — 10/9/10 
• CSA rejects legislative solution for executive remuneration — 16/8/10 
• Looming issue for ASX rules on gender reporting — 9/8/10
• CSA members offer assistance to not-for-profit sector — 29/7/10
• Reporting on gender diversity will challenge boards — 20/7/10 
• Inadequate risk management plans leave organisations vulnerable – 14/7/10 
• Take advantage of CSA’s guidance, CAMAC urges directors — 20/5/10
• CSA launches new Certificate in Governance & Risk Management — 14/5/10
• ASIC makes the right call for more consultation on confidential information proposals — 12/5/10
• Directors not getting independent assurance on risks — 4/5/10 
• Letter to Editor, AFR, claw back provisions in executive remuneration — 21/4/10
• CSA founding member of the first global body for governance professionals — 23/3/10
• Corporate Secretaries International Association to launch with publication: 20 Practical Steps to Better Corporate Governance — 22/3/10
• Proposed changes to trading rules could spark rumour-mongering — 8/3/10
• Insolvency safe harbour leaves creditors ‘high and dry’ — 5/3/10
• Companies must be able to refuse access to their share registry — 1/3/10
• Proposed changes for accessing share registries will short circuit marauding marketers — 3/2/10
• Burying Sons of Gwalia clears the way for greater investment — 19/1/10
• CSA blows the whistle on whistleblowing — 12/1/10

     2009

• Government-owned companies — a corporate governance failure — 8/12/09
• Two strikes and you’re out no good for shareholders — 8/11/09
• Education not legislation required for clearance processes for trading in company securities — 21/10/09
• Long-term employees caught in flawed exec termination pay proposals — 6/8/09
• CAMAC recommendations will test Council’s appetite for robust self-regulation — 31/7/09
• Government review into share register access told to clamp down on marauding marketers — 30/7/09
• Exploited shareholders entitled to privacy ­— The Age — 7/7/09
• Executive pay reforms slug ordinary managers — 2/6/09
• No more consultation needed on access to share registers — 29/5/09
• New Graduate Diploma in governance for public sector — 25/5/09
• Opinion piece: All eyes on shareholder rights and wrongs, AFR — 17/4/09
• CAMAC's decision on Sons of Gwalia flawed — 17/3/09
• Public sector told to sharpen its focus on good governance — March 2009
• Apply five per cent rule to disclosure of margin loans — 9/3/09
• Opinion piece: Why listing rules should be harder on disclosure, AFR — 12/2/09
• Opinion piece: Short selling: in the interests of full disclosure, Money Management — 5/2/09

      2008

• Strong support for regulating global markets, new survey finds — 30/10/08
• It's time for boards and proxy advisers to start talking — 21/10/08
• Disclosure to prevent 'distort and short' — 19/10/08
• Short selling not the only problem — 22/9/08
• Call for national regulatory framework for NFPs — 9/9/08
• Stakeholders reluctant to extend voting beyond the AGM — 2/9/08 
• Business underestimating climate change challenges — August 2008 
• Entries open for prestigious governance awards — 7/8/08
• Apply five per cent rule to disclosure of margin loans — 26/6/08
• Peak body calls for wider application of electronic delivery under the Corporations Act — 17/6/08
• Call to rethink the AGM — 8/5/08
• Salary hikes confirm company secretaries’ pivotal role in governance — 29/4/08
• Corporate Australia not convinced shares subject to a margin call should be disclosed — 1/4/08
• Letter to Editor, AFR: Corporations Panel — 28/2/08

      2007

• Corporate Australia calls for reversal of damaging Sons of Gwalia decision — 12/12/07
• CSA media update 2007
• Shareholder privacy a 'must' to combat share register piracy — 29/10/07
• Long-tail liability proposals a sting in the tail for Australian companies — 8/10/07
• Call for review of mandatory AGM for small listed companies — 27/9/07
• Old-fashioned AGM needs an overhaul — 19/9/07
• No more red tape for non-profits — 14/8/07
• Entries open for prestigious Governance Awards — 6/8/07
• Improved risk reporting the big challenge for most in ASX revised governance guidelines — 2/8/07
• Government must change its tune on whistleblowing — 26/7/07
• Letter to Editor, AFR — 13/7/07
• Out of pocket and out in the cold — 2/7/07
• Online annual reports kickstart 21st century shareholder communication — 14/6/07
• Opinion piece: direct voting, AFR — 12/6/07
• Directors race against time — 31/5/07
• Chartered Secretaries Launch Governance Course with Broad Appeal — 28/5/07
• Slow justice is no justice where ASIC fines are concerned — 15/5/07
• Business Checklist for Commonwealth regulatory proposals — 13/5/07
• Demand for good governance professionals driving education boom — 24/4/07
• Every shareholder should be able to vote directly — 21/2/07
• CSA calls for separate guidance for sustainability and corporate responsibility reporting — 12/2/07
• We'll have one rule book, thank you ... and sustainability and corporate responsibility are on the governance agenda — 18/1/07

      2006

• Is this the end of concise reports? — 15/11/06
• Telstra takes the lead on direct voting — 13/11/06
• Letter to Editor, AFR — 23/10/06
• Mid-market not starved of capable non-executive directors — 4/10/06
• Quit playing politics with shareholders, CSA tells NSW Attorney-General — 27/09/06
• Quit playing politics with shareholders, CSA tells VIC Attorney-General — 27/09/06
• Quit playing politics with shareholders, CSA tells WA Attorney-General — 27/09/06
• Quit playing politics with shareholders, CSA tells TAS Attorney-General — 27/09/06
• Quit playing politics with shareholders, CSA tells QLD Attorney-General — 27/09/06
• Making the leap from lawyer to governance professional — 15/9/06
• Support for widening business judgment rule not unanimous — 14/9/06
• Public Sector governance shake-up — 24/8/06
• Letter to Editor, AFR — 2/8/06
• CSA launches Governance Awards — 1/8/06
• Shareholders caught in political shenanigans — 26/7/06
• Shareholders the pawn in States’ political game — 26/6/06
• Not-for-Profits need good governance too — 22/6/06
• There should be only one set of rules for directors — 25/5/06
• A long road to victory — 16/5/06
• The jury's out on annual report reforms — 11/5/06
• Relief for spiralling cost of annual reports welcomed — 26/4/06
• SMEs, the bush the big losers in new Anti-Money Laundering proposals — 18/4/06
• Directors leaving nothing to chance, study finds — 28/3/06
• Clean up proxies with direct voting alternative — 9/3/06
• Regulation won't improve corporate responsibility — 24/2/06
• Shareholders desert annual reports in droves — 9/2/06

      2005

• Non-binding remuneration votes hitting the mark — 6/12/05
• Latest AASB proposal doesn't solve remuneration reporting disconnect — 1/12/05
• Chartered Secretaries call for direct voting for shareholders — 15/11/05
• Corporate responsibility should not be legislated — 3/11/05
• Lawyers flock to post-graduate governance studies — 28/10/05
• Opinion Piece: corporate responsibility, The Age — 27/10/05
• Letter to Editor, AFR — 4/10/05
• Call to extend personal liability to senior managers — 13/9/05
• Governance students give corporate administration subject the thumbs up — 1/9/05
• Shareholder remuneration resolutions - maybe, maybe not! — 29/8/05
• Small companies' caught in 'one size fits all' governance proposals — 15/8/05
• Reforms needed to protect privacy of share registers — 8/8/05
• Proactivity essential in managing share price volatility, new survey finds — 25/7/05
• e-learning to meet demand for good governance education — 23/6/05
• Proxy holders, not shareholders, still hold the trump card — 28/4/05
• Risk management fragmented and poorly communicated, new survey finds — 31/3/05
• Business coalition campaigns against 100-member rule threshold — 29/3/05
• Draft new legislation does not go far enough — 10/2/05

       2004

• Reporting against the ASX Corporate Governance Council guidelines - 16/12/04
• Corporate Governance rating agencies need to lift their game - 16/11/04
• BCA releases shareholder communication discussion paper - 28/9/04
• The chair, not 'pre-nups', should manage departures - 18/8/04
• Experienced professionals using our Graduate Diploma for a career in governance - 7/7/04
• Company Secretary qualifications disclosed - 25/6/04
• No support for involving shareholders in political donations - 8/6/04
• Chartered Secretaries applauds ALP amendments to CLERP 9 Bill - 5/6/04
• It's getting crowded in the boardroom - the release of the 2004 Benchmarking Company Secretariat Functions in Australia report - 6/4/04
• Good governance major issue for non-profits - 17/3/04

       2003

• CLERP 9 fails to protect basic voting rights - 16/12/03
• Senator Conroy's speech at CSA Conference
• Governance statement model simplifies ASX reporting - 27/10/03
• ASX Corporate Governance Council's Implementation Review Group - 17/10/03 - send an email with your comments to info@CSAust.com
• New global qualification for governance professionals - 13/10/03
• Release share register only for a proper purpose - 18/09/03
• Governance reform spawns new management hierarchy - 5/9/03
• Strong take up of ASX guidelines - 15/8/03
• Whitlam ruling paves the way for much needed reform - 20/7/03
• Public sector can learn from private sector lapses - 23/6/03
• ASIC's on the right track, peak body claims - 22/5/03
• Whistle blowing important part of good governance - 4/5/03
• Compliance solution for ASX guidelines available - 30/4/03
• Corporates split over response to executive remuneration concerns - 30/3/03  
• Support for tougher rules for directors - 31/1/03

        2002

• CLERP 9 needs caution - 13/11/02
• SMEs support Corporations Panel - 30/10/02
• ASX override not the solution - 17/10/02
• Chartered Secretaries make compelling case for Corporations Panel - 16/9/02
• Corporate Australia improves - 12/9/02
• ACCC pushes boundaries of its own laws - 19/8/02
• AGM gravy train rolls into town - 29/7/02
• Shareholders not engaged new survey finds - 17/6/02
• Implementing continuous disclosure easier said than done - 2/4/02
• Local man elected president - 18/2/02
• New Online Learning Opportunity for Career Oriented Accountants - 12/2/02
• Transition to privacy regime smooth - 20/2/02

        2001

• Corporate Governance Opinion - 6/10/01
• Corporations Panel tops peak body's list of priorities - 27/9/01
• FSR Bill - Insider Trading - 13/7/01
• Corporate Australia not ready for Privacy Law - 4/6/01
• Corporate heavyweights want shareholder participation square-root formula rounded off - 3/5/01
• ASX Does not need more supervision yet - 23/4/01
• Second Board - Not Second Rate - 6/3/01
• New Economy fails Corporate Governance Test - 4/3/01
• Civil Action for Insider Trading - 27/1/01
• Proposed shareholder participation formula fails basic simplification test - 12/1/01

       2000

• Top 200 companies overwhelmingly support two-tiered solution - 29/11/00
• Two-Tier Solution to Shareholder Participation in Deadlock - 14/11/00
• Get it in Writing: Professional Responsibilities Override Company Interest - 30/10/00
• Minimum qualifications - Don't give up - 1/8/00
• ASIC's consultative approach to be applauded - 1/8/00
• Company Secretaries should be Qualified says CSA - 1/7/00
• Electronic Lodgements Need Safeguards Against Fraud Claims Chartered Secretaries - 1/3/00

       1999

• ASIC Stance on Corporate Disclosure 'flawed': CICSA - 15/12/99 

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