8 March 2014 At city branches in Melbourne and Sydney today, dozens of Westpac customers turned out to close their accounts in protest over Westpac's multi-billion dollar support of the fossil fuel industry. Since 2008, Westpac has loaned close to $3 billion to the...
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How to avoid the carbon bubble
5 March 2014 Want to kick fossil fuel companies out of your investments but don't know how? Worried that excluding fossil fuel companies might harm your financial health? Worry no more. Market Forces and 350.org commissioned The Australia Institute to study how people...
ANZ’s AGM to remember
18 December 2013 Fossil fuels were top of the agenda at ANZ's annual general meeting today, to the point where Chairman John Morschel shut down shareholders trying to raise concerns over environmental, reputation and economic risks resulting from ANZ's investments in...
ANZ customers divest around Australia!
14 December 2013 One hundred ANZ customers have closed their accounts in activities across Australia, protesting the bank's role as the country's leading lender to the fossil fuel industry. In Melbourne, Canberra, Adelaide, Perth, Sydney, Hobart and Brisbane,...
Earth to Westpac: DIVEST!
13 December 2013 This is how to deliver an important letter! Westpac shareholders and staff at their annual general meeting in Melbourne were met with two huge banners, carrying the names of over three thousand people who have signed our open letter, calling on the...
Inside the Aurizon AGM
14 November 2013 Shareholders of quite varying and exotic strains descended on the Aurizon AGM on Wednesday. A colourful and vibrant protest outside suggested that things were going to be a little different from the usual fare of remuneration packages and directorship...