What:  A panel discussion on communicating climate change, in association with the University of Queensland’s Global Change Institute When:  6pm for 6.15pm, Monday 1 November 2010 Where:  Abel Smith Lecture Theatre (Building 23), University of Queensland, St Lucia.  (Located at the top of Campbell Rd. Click here for a map.) Cost: Free event, for Brisbane [...]

In his 2005 book Weasel Words, Don Watson wrote, “Weasel words are the words of the powerful, the treacherous and the unfaithful, spies, assassins and thieves.  Bureaucrats love them. Tyrants cannot do without them…” In government, politics and the corporate world we see language used to hide meaning instead of to reveal it, to confuse understanding rather [...]

In this issue: Corporate Social Responsibility: Past, Present and Future; The Social Responsibility of Business; Three Hundred Global Executives Speak Out; and Corporate Political Responsibility Corporate Social Responsibility: Past, Present and Future The long history of the idea of corporate social responsibility has been marked by intense contestation. Here, Andrew Johnston seeks to chart a [...]

What: A lunch session packed with new ideas, insights, skills development and networking When: Tuesday, 19 October 2010; 12.15pm for 12.30 SHARP – 2pm Where: Corporate Conference Centre, Level 16 Brisbane Square, 266 George Street Cost: $30. Registration and prepayment essential. To register, click here to complete the form and return your form with payment [...]