Submissions

ACSI, ASFI, and RIAA support the ACCC’s consideration of potential class exemptions to support business productivity and suggest it also consider introducing a class exemption for sustainability-related collaborative conduct.

ACSI welcomes ASIC’s regulatory simplification report: efficient and effective

A positive step towards a coordinated national approach to meeting Australia’s international commitments and addressing the risks posed by the degradation of nature.

ACSI supports Treasury’s development of transition planning guidance aimed at helping organisations manage climate risks and opportunities while strengthening financial market resilience.

ACSI support’s the development of targeted labelling regime to help retail investors and superannuation members better understand and compare investment products specifically marketed as ‘sustainable’ or similar.

ACSI supports the proposed amendments to the Modern Slavery Act as a step forward to improving the quality of reporting, addressing persistent non-compliance, and streamlining regulatory compliance, and encourages the introduction of a due diligence obligation.

ACSI welcomes focus on economic reform, including emphasis on productivity, economic resilience and budget sustainability. These priorities are significant to ACSl's members, many of whom have a direct, long-term stake in the Australian economy on behalf on their beneficiaries.

Achieving net zero will need a suite of coordinated policies that address decarbonisation while upholding wider economic, social and environmental outcomes. It will also require a significant level of investment from both public and private sources.

In ACSI’s primary focus of equity markets, frameworks which protect shareholder rights and promote strong company governance have significant value and ultimately provide investors with confidence, supporting participation in public markets.