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    Lists & Awards

    For close to 40 years, the Financial Review has recognised the achievements of our best and brightest across the economy and the community through several awards initiatives.

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    Anna Wiley, BHP’s asset president of copper South Australia; Siobhan Toohill, Westpac’s chief sustainability officer; Tammy Medard, managing director of ANZ’s Institutional in Australia and PNG.

    ‘I shot Bambi’: Women leaders on their toughest decisions

    Often the toughest decisions are those that affect other people. Here winners of the Women in Leadership awards share their hardest calls.

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    • Sally Patten

    Showing the way: Major brands embrace new recycling symbols

    Making it easier for households to recycle packaging for food and consumer goods has won Australasian Recycling Labels a special award for Education Enabler.

    • Alexandra Cain

    Transport needs to avoid becoming the nation’s biggest emitter

    Without dramatic changes, this may be the last industry to decarbonise. Aurizon, the winner of the Logistics and Transport category, aims to change that with its electric locomotive.

    • Agnes King

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    The search is on for Australia’s fastest growing companies! Entries close September 17, 2024.

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    The search is on for Australia’s fastest growing young companies! Entries close September 17, 2024.

    • Energy Awards

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    The Energy Awards recognise the people and businesses driving the future of the industry. Entries close Tuesday August 6, 2024.

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    This Month

    How to get to net zero with recycled building rubbish

    Nu-Rock founder Maroun Rahme says reusing waste products could deliver Australia its net-zero target by 2030 as the company takes out the Property and Construction category.

    • Larry Schlesinger
    Winning Group brand Appliances Online has stopped 80,000 tonnes of electronics and appliances from being dumped in landfill since it was launched in 2005.

    Customers love this cool solution to getting rid of old fridges

    Winning Group brand Appliances Online has stopped 80,000 tonnes of electronics and appliances from being dumped in landfill, earning the company top spot in the Retail category.

    • Gus McCubbing

    New tools democratise greenhouse gas management

    A digital marketplace for companies with smaller carbon footprints to buy offsets has taken out the Technology category.

    • Alexandra Cain

    How Amcor gave us guilt-free cream cheese

    Soft plastics are piling up in warehouses around Australia. Amcor says it has a solution, taking out the Manufacturing category.

    • Sylvia Ramsey

    Would you like coffee with your concrete?

    One of the world’s most polluting materials can be made less polluting. The new technology has helped Arup win the Professional Services category.

    • Michael Bleby
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    Biomass Projects founder Richard Paterson hopes to transform Western Australia’s largest weed infestation into carbon-capturing biochar.

    This trailblazer turns destructive weed into a replacement for coal

    Biomass Projects has plans to build the world’s largest biochar production on a 225,000-hectare Pilbara plot that is overrun with mesquite.

    • Gus McCubbing

    Ideas to solve the next big climate challenges

    Winners of the Sustainability Leaders list are pushing the boundaries of innovation, writes Rebecca Russell.

    • Rebecca Russell
    There are plenty of jobs in renewables.

    ‘Everyone wins’: Financing renewables at scale

    Brighte looks to boost the renewables transition through its ‘one-stop shop’ model, winning the Banking and Financial Services category.

    • Prashant Mehra
    AgriProve founder Matthew Warnken: “We’re not going to incrementalise our way out of these challenges, which means that now is the opportunity to innovate.”

    A farming revolution built on down-to-earth thinking

    Increasing carbon levels in grazing lands could remove 10 billion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions from the atmosphere says the winner of the Agriculture category.

    • Tom McIlroy
    The new platform will help farmers improve returns and be more sustainable

    How Sustainability Leaders entrants were assessed

    Submissions came from ASX20 companies and multinationals, early-stage ventures and public institutions, and were scored against four measurements.

    • Rebecca Russell
    Orica’s emissions reduction project at Kooragang Island will abate half a million tonnes a year of carbon dioxide equivalent, says German Morales, group president for Australia and the Pacific and sustainability.

    Orica crowned Australia’s most sustainable company for Impact

    The explosives manufacturer is recognised for completing the biggest emissions abatement project in the Australian chemicals sector as it takes out the 2024 Sustainability Leaders award.

    • Sally Patten

    June

    Tammy Medard, Managing Director, Institutional Australia & PNG at ANZ, Danielle Wood, Chair of the Productivity Commission, and Jessica Vanderlelie, Deputy Vice Chancellor Academic and Professor La Trobe University and Bronwyn Le Grice CEO and Managing Director of AND Health.

    The winners of the Women in Leadership Awards

    Meet the winners of the 2024 Women in Leadership Awards, in eight key economic categories.

    Danielle Handley, BUPA chief customer and transformation officer, is passionate about the way technology, data and digital continue to enable innovation.

    ‘We need to be champions of other women’

    By the time Danielle Handley arrived at health insurer BUPA, the executive who hired her had left. She had to lead a company transformation without a boss.

    • Sian Powell
    Danielle Wood, chair of the Productivity Commission; Danielle Handley, Bupa’s chief customer and transformation officer; Haseda Fazlic, Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s executive general manager.

    How COVID-19 redefined leadership for these award-winning women

    There can be no leaders without followers – and the pandemic reminded us that followers respond best when treated like human beings and not like machines.

    • Euan Black
    Anna Wiley has been handed one of the biggest jobs at BHP as asset president for copper in South Australia,

    BHP entrusts rising star with its copper mines

    Anna Wiley, a leader in the Resources category, has barely put a foot wrong in a diverse career in mining that has led her to the top job in the group’s copper operations in South Australia.

    • Brad Thompson
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    Rio Tinto chief executive of minerals Sinead Kaufman is no stranger to making tough decisions.

    Rio Tinto leader never shies away from hard talks and tough calls

    Sinead Kaufman, the winner of the Resources category, also shows great care and sensitivity for families and communities across her career in mining.

    • Brad Thompson
    Kerryn Coker and Kate West believe the cooperative model has, in addition to its benefits for work-life balance, allowed more effective strategic and operational guidance of the company.

    ‘Non-conforming bid’ that took dynamic duo to the top

    The winners of the Professional Services category are two Arup engineers who proposed a unique joint arrangement to enable them to balance leadership and family commitments.

    • Maxim Shanahan
    Jaki Virtue was drafted in as Soul Patts’ first chief operating officer across its 120-year-plus history in 2023.

    Versatile risk-taker who shines when the going gets tough

    Washington H Soul Pattinson’s Jaki Virtue swears by the power of ‘unknown sponsorships’, as she takes out the Financial Services - Non-banking category.

    • Kanika Sood
    Ingrid Maes, CEO of W23 Global; Tammy Medard, managing director of ANZ’s Institutional in Australia and PNG; Alison Telfer, country head Australasia for UBS Asset Management.

    What’s your best career tip? Award winners share theirs

    Lead with compassion, don’t assume you know all the answers, and play to your strengths: winners in the Women in Leadership Awards share advice that has helped them.

    • Victoria Thieberger
    Danielle Wood, chairwoman of the Productivity Commission, Tammy Medard, managing director, institutional Australia & PNG at ANZ, Bronwyn Le Grice, CEO and managing director of AND Health, and Jessica Vanderlelie, deputy vice chancellor academic and professor at La Trobe University.

    ‘Inclusion, resilience, empathy’: How modern leadership is changing

    Modern leadership is about more than successfully deploying skills and industry expertise – it strongly encompasses the people side, writes Patricia McKenzie.

    • Patricia McKenzie

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