1 December 2021 Executives and board members of super fund HESTA failed to address members’ concerns about the fund’s investments in companies expanding oil and gas production at its annual member meeting yesterday evening. A group of members calling themselves the...
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Mark’s historic super fund legal win
5 November 2020 You may have seen the news this week about 25-year-old Brisbane ecologist Mark McVeigh, who won a historic legal battle against his $57 billion super fund, Rest, over climate change. What you may not know is that Mark used Market Forces’ research and...
Super funds are slowly moving on climate action – are your retirement savings still invested in climate destruction?
6 October 2020 2020 has seen some significant shifts in how super funds are dealing with climate change and the risks it poses, resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars being withdrawn from some of Australia’s dirtiest companies. Millions more Australians no...
Do you own a piece of these dirty fossil fuel projects?
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A shocking reminder of the health impacts of coal
11 March 2016 It's a shocking story that's slowly emerging. Up to 1,000 current and former Queensland coal mine workers could be affected by pneumoconiosis, or black lung disease, and it's possible that authorities and coal mining companies have tried to cover up the...