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2012

• ASX Listing Rules Review Issues Paper: Reserves and Resources Disclosure Rules for Mining and Oil & Gas Companies — submission to ASX — 31/1/12
• Proposed Amendments to the Corporations Act: dividend payments — submission to Treasury — 30/1/12
• Review of not-for-profit governance arrangements — submission to Treasury — 25/1/12
• Exposure Draft — Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission Bill — submission to Treasury — 25/1/12
• Revised draft Corporations Amendment Regulations 2012 (No. ) — submission to Treasury — 25/1/12
• Exposure Draft: Corporations Amendment (Similar Names) Bill 2012 — submission to Treasury — 23/1/12
• Exposure Draft: Corporations Amendment (Phoenixing and Other Measures) Bill 2012 — submission to Treasury — 23/1/12

2011

• Review of the Integrity Act 2009: Issues Paper — submission to the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, Queensland Government — 21/12/11
• ASX to centralise listing resources — letter to ASX — 20/12/11
• Prudential standards for superannuation — submission to APRA — 14/12/11
• Towards Integrated Reporting: Communicating Value in the 21st Century — submission to International Integrated Reporting Committee — 13/12/11
• ASX Listing Rules Guidance Note 1: Applying for admission — ASX listings — submission to ASX — 13/12/11
• A definition of charity: consultation paper — submission to Treasury — 9/12/11
• Clean Energy Finance Corporation Expert review: Governance arrangements of the CEFC — submission to Treasury — 2/12/11
• Council of Financial Regulators: Review of Financial Market Infrastructure Regulation — submission to Treasury — 1/12/11
• Executive remuneration in the UK — submission to the UK Department of Business Innovation and Skills — 25/11/11
• Consumer Credit and Corporations Legislation Amendment (Enhancements) Bill 2011 — submission to Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services — 28/10/11
• Consumer Credit and Corporations Legislation Amendment (Enhancements) Bill 2011 — submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Economics — 28/10/11
• Proposed new Listing Rules: 'good fame and character' requirement for directors of new listed entities — submission to ASX — 28/10/11
• Exposure Draft: Corporations Legislation Amendment (Audit Enhancement) Bill 2011 — submission to Treasury — 28/10/11
• Discussion paper — Managed Investment Schemes — submission to CAMAC — 30/9/11
• Exposure draft — Corporations Amendment (Future of Financial Advice) Bill 2011 — submission to Treasury — 16/9/11
• Exposure draft — Facilitating Common Forms of Capital Raising and other Rule Changes — submission to ASX — 9/9/11
• Time frames for reviews, inquiries and consultations — letter to Treasurer — 31/8/11
• National Policy Committee Platform Review — submission to Australian Labor Party — 26/8/11
• Exposure Draft: Corporations Amendment Regulations 2011 (No.) — Funded Class Actions — submission to Treasury — 17/8/11
• Exposure Draft: Tax Law Amendments to Strengthen Company Director Obligations and Deter Fraudulent Phoenix Activity — submission to Treasury — 3/8/11
• Green paper: EU corporate governance — submission to European Commission — 19/7/11
• Better targeting of not-for-profit tax concessions — submission to Treasury — 6/7/11
• Review of the Commonwealth Government Business Enterprises Governance and Oversight Guidelines — submission to Department of Finance and Deregulation — 30/6/11
• Consultation paper 155: Prospectus disclosure: improving disclosure for retail investors — submission to ASIC — 7/6/11
• ASX SME, Mid-Cap and Micro-Cap Equity Market Review — submission to ASX — 18/5/11 
• Consultation paper 150: Disclosing financial information other than in accordance with accounting standards — Submission to ASIC — 11/5/11 
• The clawback of executive remuneration where financial statements are materially misstated — submission to Treasury — 18/3/11
• Access to the register of members and the regulation of unsolicited off-market offers to purchase securities — letter to ASIC — 18/3/11
• Listing Rules Amendments — new rules and timetables for common forms of capital raisings — submission to ASX — 15/3/11
• Wholesale and Retail clients — Future of Financial Advice — submission to Treasury — 25/2/11
• Scoping study for national not-for-profit regulator — submission to Treasury — 25/2/11
• Exposure Draft: Draft Corporations Amendment (Improving Accountability on Director and Executive Remuneration) Bill 2011 — submission to Treasury — 27/1/11

2010

• Related party transactions and Expert reports and independence of experts submission to ASIC — 14/12/10
• Corporations Amendment (Corporate Reporting Reform) Act 2010 — letter to Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer — 17/11/10   
• Inquiry into Corporations Amendment (No 1) Bill 2010 — submission to Senate Economics Legislation Committee — 13/10/10 
• Possible Reforms to the Lobbying Code of Conduct and Register of Lobbyists — submission to The Special Minister of State for the Public Service and Integrity — 29/9/10  
• Consultation on proposed reforms to section 205G of the Corporations Act — submission to Treasury — 24/9/10 
• Executive remuneration — submission to CAMAC — 13/8/10
• Putting the Public First: Partnering with the Community and Business to Deliver Outcomes: Final Report of the Economic Audit Committee — submission to the Government of Western Australia — 30/7/10
• Corporations Amendment (Corporate Reporting Reform) Act 2010 — submission to Treasury — 20/07/10 
• Inquiry into the Corporations Amendment (Sons of Gwalia) Bill 2010 — submission to Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs — 20/07/10 
• Corporations Amendment (No 1) Bill 2010 — submission to Treasury — 10/6/10
• Proposed amendments to the ASX Corporate Governance Council Corporate Governance Principles and Recommendations — submission to ASX Corporate Governance Council — 20/5/10
• Listing Rule amendments — New Requirements for a Remuneration Committee — submission to ASX — 20/5/10
• Exposure Draft Revised Differential Reporting Framework (ED 192) and Consultation Paper: Differential Financial Reporting — Reducing Disclosure Requirements (CP) — submission to AASB — 23/4/10
• Listing Rule amendments — Company policies on ‘trading windows’ and ‘blackout periods’ — submission to ASX — 24/2/10
• Proposed cooperatives national law — submission to NSW Department of Fair Trading — 24/2/10
• Proposals paper: Access to company registers and related issues — submission to Treasury — 24/2/10 
• Handling confidential information — submission to ASIC — 19/2/10
• Insolvent trading: A safe harbour for reorganisation attempts outside of external administration — submission to Treasury — 19/2/10
• Improving Australia’s corporate reporting framework: Exposure Draft of Corporations Amendment (Corporate Reporting Reform) Bill 2010 — submission to Treasury — 2/2/10 
• Duty to prevent insolvent trading: Guide for directors — submission to ASIC — 15/1/10

2009

• Improving protections for corporate whistleblowers — submission to Treasury — 15/12/09 
• Reform of Australian Government Administration — submission to Advisory Group on Reform of Australian Government Administration — 26/11/09
• Exposure Draft for Model Act and Stage 1 Model Regulations — submission to Safe Work Australia — 9/11/09
• Executive remuneration in Australia: Productivity Commission Discussion Draft — submission to Productivity Commission — 6/11/09
• Review into the governance, efficiency, structure and operation of Australia’s superannuation system: Phase one — governance — submission to Super System Review — 19/10/09
• Corporations Amendment (Improving Accountability on Termination Payments) Bill 2009: Corporations Amendment Regulations 2009 (No. ) — submission to Treasury — 6/8/09
• Access to share registers and the regulation of unsolicited off-market offers — submission to Treasury — 23/7/09
• Corporations Amendment (Improving Accountability on Termination Payments) Bill 2009 – submission to the Senate Economics Committee – 17/7/09
• Corporations Amendment (Improving Accountability on Termination Payments) Bill 2009 — submission to Treasury — 29/5/09
• Regulation of director and executive remuneration in Australia — submission to the Productivity Commission — 29/5/09
• Freedom of Information reform — submission to Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet — 15/5/09
• National model occupational health and safety laws: proposed use of definition of 'officer' as defined in the Corporations Act — submission to Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations — 15/5/09
• Modifications to ASIC Form 315 — submission to Treasury — 17/4/09
• ASIC form for notification of appointment of auditor — submission to ASIC — 17/4/09
• Facilitating equity capital raising — submission to ASIC — 26/3/09
• Sons of Gwalia: CAMAC report — letter to the Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law — 12/3/09
• Market integrity — submission to CAMAC — 10/3/09
• Review of share purchase plan threshold: consultation paper — submission to ASIC — 13/2/09
• Trade Practices Amendment (Cartel Conduct and Other Measures) Bill 2008 — submission to Treasury — 23/1/09

2008

• Regulation 9.1.02 and ASIC form 484: paid up capital (dollars) — 4/12/08
• Exposure Draft of the Corporations Amendment (Short Selling) Bill 2008 — submission to Treasury — 17/10/08
• Inquiry into the disclosure regimes for charities and not-for-profit organisations — submission to Senate Economics Committee — 20/8/08
• National review into occupational health and safety laws — submission to The National Occupational Health & Safety Review Panel — 10/7/08
• Second tranche of AML/CTF reforms: implications for company formation businesses — submission to Australian Government Attorney-General's Department — 10/7/08
• Financial services and credit reform: green paper — submission to Treasury — 27/6/08
• Disclosure of shareholdings subject to security interest or other third-party rights — submission to ASX — 13/6/08
• Draft voluntary information security breach notification guide: consultation paper — submission to Office of the Privacy Commissioner — 13/6/08
• Facilitating online financial services disclosure — submission to ASIC — 27/5/08
• Non-recourse loans provided to executives — submission to Treasury — 5/5/08
• Short selling — submission to ASX — 5/5/08
• Inquiry into shareholder engagement and participation: submission following public hearing on 16 April 2008 — submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services — 1/5/08
• Proposed amendment to Listing Rules requirements relating to expert's report — submission to ASX — 21/4/08
• Reporting of functional currency — submission to ASIC — 18/3/08 
• The appointment, resignation and removal of auditors — submission to ASIC — 18/3/08 
• Draft Corporations Amendment Regulations: to remove the requirement for managed investment schemes to report to ASIC their top 20 members each year as part of the annual review process — submission to Treasury — 18/3/08
• Criminal penalties for serious cartel conduct: draft legislation — submission to Treasury — 28/2/08
• Omnibus Listing Rule amendments — submission to ASX — 14/2/08 
• Non-voting ordinary shares — submission to ASX — 14/2/08

2007

• Shareholder claims against insolvent companies: Implications of Sons of Gwalia decision — submission to CAMAC — 17/12/07
• Review of Australian Privacy Law: Discussion Paper 72 — submission to ALRC — 27/11/2007
• ASIC Consultation Paper No 91: Non-traditional rights issues — submission to ASIC — 6/11/07
• Discussion paper: Governance for APRA-regulated institutions — submission to APRA — 28/9/07
• Long-tail liabilities: the treatment of unascertained personal injury claims — submission to CAMAC — 24/9/07
• Inquiry into shareholder engagement and participation — submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services — 14/9/07
• ITC 12: Proposed Revised Differential Reporting Regime for Australia and IASB Exposure Draft of a Proposed IFRS for SMEs — submission to AASB — 3/9/07
• Shareholder privacy and protection — letter to Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer — 14/8/07
• Financial reporting by public unlisted companies — submission to the Department of Treasury — 3/8/07
• Financial Sector Legislation Amendment (Simplifying Regulation and Review) Bill 2007 — submission to Senate Economics Committee — 20/7/07
• ASX Omnibus Listing Rule amendments 2007 — submission to ASX — 20/7/07
• Review of sanctions in corporate law — submission to the Department of Treasury — 1/6/07
• Insider Trading: Position and Consultation Paper — submission to the Department of Treasury — 31/5/07
• Review of the operation of the infringement notice provisions of the Corporations Act 2001 — submission to the Department of Treasury — 31/5/07
• Draft Guidance Note on Insider Participation in Control Transactions — submission to Takeovers Panel — 5/4/07
• Listing Rule 10.14 — submission to ASX — 27/3/07
• Exposure Draft of the Corporations Amendment (Insolvency) Bill 2007 - submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services — 22/2/07
• Register of relevant interests — submission to the Department of Treasury — 22/2/07
• Revisions to Principles of good corporate governance and good practice recommendations — submission to the ASX Corporate Governance Council — 9/2/07 (please note that CSA has used Track Changes to show our recommended amendments to drafting in the revised guidelines)

2006

• Corporate and Financial Services Regulation Review Proposal Paper — submission to the Department of Treasury — 21/12/06
• Letter to ASIC concerning deeds of cross guarantee: ASIC Class Order 98/1418 — Wholly Owned Entities — 18/12/06
• Exposure Draft of the Corporations Amendment (Takeovers) Bill 2006 — submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services — 13/11/06
• NSW Council letter to NSW Attorney-General concerning NSW opposition to repeal of 100 member rule — 27/09/06
• VIC Council letter to VIC Attorney-General concerning VIC opposition to repeal of 100 member rule — 27/09/06
• QLD Council letter to QLD Attorney-General concerning QLD opposition to repeal of 100 member rule — 27/09/06
• TAS Council letter to TAS Attorney-General concerning TAS opposition to repeal of 100 member rule — 27/09/06
• WA Council letter to WA Attorney-General concerning WA opposition to repeal of 100 member rule — 27/09/06
• Coalition letter to Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer concerning state opposition to the repeal of the 100-member rule — 19/9/06
• CSA comments on access to and use of the register of members of a company — 14/9/06
• Revised Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Bill 2006 — submission to Attorney-General's Department — 4/8/06
• Letter to NSW Attorney General concerning state opposition to the repeal of the 100-member rule — 29/6/06
• Letter to VIC Attorney General concerning state opposition to the repeal of the 100-member rule — 29/6/06
• Letter to QLD Attorney General concerning state opposition to the repeal of the 100-member rule — 21/6/06
• Letter to WA Australian Attorney General concerning state opposition to the repeal of the 100-member rule — 21/6/06
• Letter to TAS Attorney General concerning state opposition to the repeal of the 100-member rule — 21/6/06
• Corporate and Financial Services Regulation Review — submission to the Department of Treasury — 19/5/06
• Corporations Amendment Bill (No 2 ) 2006 — submission to the Department of Treasury — 11/5/06
• Letter to ASIC concerning auditor rotation — 9/5/06
• Distribution of annual reports — endorsing letter to Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer — 21/4/06
• Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Bill 2005 — submission to Attorney-General's Department — 13/4/06
• Corporate social responsibility — submission to CAMAC — 24/2/06
• Long-tail personal injury claims — submission to CAMAC — 17/2/06

        2005

• Director and executive remuneration — submission to Business Regulation Advisory Group, Department of Treasury — 16/11/05
• Director and executive remuneration — submission to AASB — 15/11/05
• The role of the company secretary — letter to APRA — 14/11/05
• Inquiry into corporate responsibility — submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services — 15/9/05
• Corporate Duties Below Board Level Discussion Paper — submission to CAMAC — 26/8/05
• Personal Liability for Corporate Fault Discussion Paper — submission to CAMAC — 12/8/05
• Governance for APRA-regulated institutions — submission to APRA — 12/8/05
• Approving a purpose for accessing the register of members of a mutual entity — submission to ASIC — 15/7/05
• Director and executive remuneration — submission to the Department of Treasury — 31/5/05
• Disclosure of broker numbers — letter to ASX — 29/3/05
• Corporations Amendment Bill (no 2) 2005 — submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services — 7/4/05
• Corporations Amendment Bill (No 2) 2005 — submission to the Department of Treasury - 29/3/05
• Proposed amendments to ss 249D and 249N of the Corporations Act requesting a special general meeting and placing resolutions on the agenda at company meetings — letter from business coalition to the Department of Treasury - 22/3/05

        2004

• Proposed Listing Rule Amendments — 19/11/04
• ASIC Guide on Continuous Disclosure Obligations: Infringement Notices — 23/7/04
• The introduction of a due diligence defence for a breach  of proposed sections 674(2A) and 675(2A) of the Corporations Act — 1/6/04
• Guidelines for release of price-sensitive decisions by Australian Government Departments and Agencies — 14/5/04
• Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services — Inquiry into the Corporate Law Economic Reform Program (Audit Reform and Corporate Disclosure) Bill 2003 — supplementary submission — 16/4/04
• Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services — Inquiry into the Corporate Law Economic Reform Program (Audit Reform and Corporate Disclosure) Bill 2003 — text of CSA's presentation to the Committee hearing — 18/3/04
• Submission to the Advisory Council on Intellectual Property — A review of the relationship between trade marks and business names, company names and domain names — 15/3/2004

      2003

• CLERP (Audit Reform & Corporate Disclosure) Bill 2003 — submission to the Department of Treasury — 10/11/2003
• The HIH Royal Commission — letter to the Hon. Peter Costello — 2/5/03
• Corporations Amendment Bill 2002 — submission to the Department of Treasury — 20/3/03

        2002

• Corporate Law Economic Reform Program — Paper No. 9 — submission to the Department of the Treasury — 22/11/02
• Insider Trading Proposals — submission to CAMAC — 15/11/02
• The Need for a Corporations Panel — September 2002
• Proposed Listing Rule Amendments — Enhanced Disclosure — submission to ASX — 12/9/02
• Trade Practices Act — submission to Trade Practices Act Review — 12/7/02
• Inquiry into Corporate Governance in Victorian Public Sector — submission to the Public Accounts and Estimates Committee — 17/6/02
• A partnership with CSA to deliver clarification of Continuous Disclosure guidelines — letter to Senator Ian Campbell — 17/5/02
• Current review of the JORC Code — submission to Australasian Joint Ore Reserves Committee (JORC) — 5/4/02
• Proposed Listing Rule Amendments — ASX Foreign Exempt Admission Criteria — submission to ASX — 13/3/02
• Secondary Sales of Securities — submission to ASIC re Secondary Sales of Securities that require disclosure under s707(3) & (4) — 11/2/02
• Proposed Listing Rule Amendments — Financial Services Reform Act 2001 — submission to ASX — 17/1/02

       2001

• Inquiry into Section 46 of the Trade Practices Act — submission to the Senate Legal & Constitutional Committee — 6/11/01
• Insider Trading Discussion Paper — submission to CASAC — 10/10/01
• Governance and compliance imperatives for the next Federal Government — 27/9/01
• Disclosure of Directors' Transactions — submission to the ASX — 13/7/01
• Proposed Listing Rule Amendments — submission to the Australian Stock Exchange Exposure Draft — 1/7/01  
• Square Root Proposal — letter to the Minister for Financial Services and Regulation, the Hon. Joe Hockey — 25/5/01
• Financial Services Reform Bill — submission to the Joint Parliamentary Statutory Committee on Companies and Securities — 17/5/01
• Inquiry into the framework for the market supervision of Australia's Stock Exchanges — submission to the Senate Economics References Committee — 9/2/01

        2000

• Proposed Listing Rule Amendments — submission to the Australian Stock Exchange Exposure Draft — 1/7/00
• Qualifications or Experience of Company Secretaries — submission to the Companies & Securities Advisory Committee — 23/3/00
• Corporate Law Economic Reform Program — Paper No. 7, submission to the Minister for Financial Services and Regulation — 15/3/00
• The Online Corporation: Electronic corporate communications — submission to the Centre for Corporate Law & Securities Regulation, The University of Melbourne — 17/2/00
• Proposed Quarterly Report for Entities Admitted on the Basis of Commitments — submission to the Australian Stock Exchange Supplementary Exposure Draft — 14/2/00

        1999

• Failure to lodge documents — Proposed revision of Policy Statement 64 — submission to ASIC — 24/12/99
• Shareholder Participation in the Modern Listed Public Company — submission to the Companies & Securities Advisory Committee — 10/12/99
• Comments on "Heard it on the grapevine..." — Draft ASIC guidance and discussion paper — 9/12/99 

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