GIIN State of the Market 2025: impact resilience and imbalance
The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) State of the Market 2025 report paints a mixed picture of the global impact investing landscape, capturing both its strength and unevenness.
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Gas-fired Electricity Generation is a Bridge, Not a Destination
Ongoing delays in building renewable generation, transmission and storage infrastructure risks increasing Australia’s reliance on gas-fired generation.
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How For-Purpose Leaders are Navigating a Challenging 2025
The first half of 2025 has underscored the urgency for Australia’s for-purpose sector to rethink how it operates, funds its mission, and sustains its workforce in an increasingly complex environment.
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Culturally appropriate care is essential, not an extra
Age, cultural background and where someone lives often determine how aged care is delivered, and this is wrong, writes Danijela Hlis.
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Have you say in shaping Australia’s next Nature Repair Market method
Consultation is now open on the design of an Enhancing Native Vegetation method to restore, enhance and maintain Australia’s native vegetation.
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Social enterprise loan fund secures major institutional and government backing to expand job opportunities
White Box Enterprises has officially launched the Social Enterprise Loan Fund (SELF) — marking a major breakthrough in finance for social enterprises that could unlock hundreds of jobs for people facing barriers to employment.
MAD Ventures redefining venture investing to tackle the world’s most urgent challenges
On a mission to back high-growth businesses making a difference, MAD Ventures is redefining venture investing — aligning founder success with investor liquidity, strong returns, and real-world impact.
Impact Investing
FPIP launches latest Impact Report: Leaders discuss the future of social impact investment in Australia
FPIP launched its third annual Impact Report with a panel discussion hosted by Michael Traill and featuring Allegra Spender MP, Ludovic Theau and Lin Hatfield Dodds.
Impact-led strategy for the new funding reality
The time is now. For-purpose leaders and organisations need to uplift and embed impact across the organisation-wide strategy process, not as an afterthought, or face barriers to access impact funding.
Conscious Investment Management releases 2025 Impact Report
CIM has released its fifth annual Impact Report, outlining how its investments and corporate operations are driving social and environmental impact across Australia.
Climate & Environment
Voices for the Future: An Evening with Jean Oelwang & Damon Gameau
A powerful evening that connects local action with global climate leadership.
Australian first National Climate Risk Assessment warns of widespread impacts
The Federal Government has formally recognised the rising risks of climate change and the devastating economic, health and social implications with the release of the long-delayed National Climate Risk Assessment (NCRA).
Pressure mounts as Labor prepares to set Australia’s 2035 Climate Target
Labor is just weeks away from announcing its 2035 emissions target, which will outline high-level policies to decarbonise individual sectors of the economy on the path to net-zero by 2050.
