2023 Australia's Sustainability Success Stories — 34th National Banksia Sustainability Awards

NATIONAL BANKSIA SUSTAINABILITY AWARDS

AUSTRALIA'S SUSTAINABILITY

SUCCESS STORIES

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119 Small to Medium Enterprises Sustainable Leadership Award

129 Sustainable Leadership in the eCommerce and reCommerce Industry Award

137 Sustainable Tourism Award

149 Young Changemakers Award

from the Banksia Foundation Board Welcome

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‘As CEO of the Banksia Foundation, I believe that to reach your sustainability pinnacle, it is crucial to acknowledge and learn from the ground breaking work already being achieved. By shining a spotlight on existing best practices and innovation, we not only inspire, but also pave the way for meaningful collaborations. Working together amplifies our collective impact, and in a world that faces numerous sustainability challenges, collaboration is not just smart—it is necessary. Let us strive to make each step towards sustainability a leap by uniting forces and sharing knowledge.

The Banksia Foundation is proud to bring you our case studies for the 34th National Banksia Sustainability Awards - Australia’s longest running and most prestigious sustainability awards. From this year’s finalists, one key message came through. For humanity to survive, we need biodiversity to thrive.

The finalists, drawn from a record number of entries, demonstrate optimism and hope for a brighter future despite fears of an economic downturn.

We cannot be subject to pessimism. People need to hear our sustainability success stories. These are Australia’s brightest leaders, changemakers and innovators who are making a positive impact on the world.

Reflecting the popularity to conserve, protect and restore Australia's ecosystems, the Biodiversity, Circular Transition and Net Zero categories received the most entries for this year’s Banksia Awards. Given Australia’s commitment to protect 30% of the Earth by 2030, it is fantastic to see our finalists’ accelerating efforts and acting with the sense of urgency required to regenerate the environment.

The finalists across 15 categories also celebrate people and organisations that foster inclusivity and diversity in the workplace, presenting unique design solutions for cities, and facilitating climate adaptation in regional Australia.

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Our sincere thanks to our dedicated judges across the country that provide their precious time and expertise to enable Banksia to provide you with these inspiring stories.

We would like to thank our category sponsors, our foundation partners who ensure that this prestigious national recognition program continues to grow. Their ongoing support and involvement in the awards, allows us to continue our vital work.

On behalf of the Banksia Board, we would like to congratulate all our winners and finalists and we hope that you enjoy discovering what innovative Australians are doing towards achieving our targets around the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Grazyna van Egmond Chief Executive Officer Banksia Foundation

Board Members

Meet Our Patron

Alan Finkel is a neuroscientist, engineer and entrepreneur. He was Australia’s chief scientist from 2016 to 2020, during which time he led the National Electricity Market Review, the development of the National Hydrogen Strategy, and the panel that advised the Australian Government on the 2020 Low Emissions Technology Roadmap. He is currently Chair of Stile Education, Chair of the Australian Government’s Technology Investment Advisory Council, and Special Adviser to the Australian Government on Low Emissions Technologies.

Rick Finlay Treasurer

Grazyna van Egmond CEO

Andrew Petersen Chair

Alan Finkel

Jo Cain

John Valastro

Mark Paterson

Estelle O’Callaghan

Agriculture and Regional Development Award

Reef and Rainforest Research Centre

Delivering a paradigm shift in our ability to defend coral and biodiversity on the Great Barrier Reef in collaboration with CSIRO, Great Barrier Reef Foundation, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, NESP Tropical Water Quality Hub

One of the biggest challenges in meeting the water quality targets set under the Reef 2050 Plan, and restoring trust, has been the ability to determine confidently the sources and amounts of dissolved inorganic nitrogen, sediment, and other pollutants in river systems that flow onto the GBR.

Perceived conflicts between different types of land management and regulation can be resolved using science – as long as everyone trusts the data.

Website: rrrc.org.au

Piloted a mechanism for 'bottom-up' water quality research to engage more directly with farmers to establish stronger and more tangible feedback loops between water quality science and management

The stakeholder-driven “Project 25” piloted a mechanism for ‘bottomup’ water quality research to engage more directly with farmers to establish stronger and more tangible feedback loops between water quality science and management in the RussellMulgrave south of Cairns.

New water quality monitoring equipment and a customized app delivering real-time data has enabled landholders, for the first time, to identify problems with nitrogen runoff on their own properties with confidence. Landholders are now changing their practices and working with partners, including the Wanyurr-Majay Traditional Owners, to remediate wetlands and further

measurably improve the quality of the water leaving the catchment into the Great Barrier Reef. This approach has not only involved innovative infrastructure but also rebuilt trust in the community, increasing their sustainability and improving wellbeing.

Cobram Estate Olives

Showing the world that Cobram's product is not only good for human health, but its sustainable farming practices are good for the planet too

During the past 20 years, Cobram Estate Olives has developed its proprietary integrated olive oil production system, which produces olive oil with a consumption of water 37% lower (per ton of oil) than the industry best practice average, olive oil with a consumption of nitrogen fertilizer 61% lower (per ton of oil) than the estimated industry average, and consumes phosphorus fertilizer 83% lower (per ton of oil).

As part of its ‘Towards Zero Waste’ strategy, several initiatives have been introduced to limit the amount of waste occurring at its groves.

Website: cobramestateolives.com.au

The company has recently purchased industrial drying machines to pilot an initiative with support from Sustainability Victoria. This pilot aims to support the broader olive industry by discovering additional opportunities that can be commercialized by rapidly removing moisture content from the waste. As a result of these initiatives, only 0.5% of operational inputs go to landfill, and economic benefits have been realized in the form of reduced costs and new revenue streams.

Olive pits are used as a renewable energy source to heat boilers, with surplus stock sold to other businesses. Olive leaves and extracts are used to make value-add products for their Stone & Grove olive leaf teas and Wellgrove health goods. In addition, any pruned branches are mulched and returned to the soil, and olive pomace waste is used to reduce fertilizer requirements.

The company has recently purchased industrial drying machines to pilot an initiative with support from Sustainability Victoria. This pilot aims to support the broader olive industry by discovering additional opportunities that can be commercialized by rapidly removing moisture content from the waste. As a

result of these initiatives, only 0.5% of operational inputs go to landfill, and economic benefits have been realized in the form of reduced costs and new revenue streams implemented, which resulted in a higher level of farmer engagement than any previous reef project.

As Australia’s largest olive producer and a member of key industry bodies, Cobram Estate Olives plays a leading role in advocating for sustainable olive farming as a true example of largescale agriculture that can deliver positive impact in the pillars of health and sustainability

To improve outcomes for nature, 1,300 hectares of native vegetation have been fenced off to provide habitat for local fauna and encourage wildlife onto the groves. In addition to protecting existing vegetation, Cobram Estate has set aside 500 hectares of land to be planted with native woodland and mallee species, with the first phase of reforestation occurring in September with direct seeding of 150 hectares at their Boundary Bend grove. This reforestation project is estimated to sequester 50,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions.

As a result of improved native vegetation, it is now common to see native wildlife such as emus, cockatoos, and kangaroos at the groves. The organization has also partnered with the Victorian Malleefowl Recovery Group to protect the threatened Malleefowl, a unique mound-building bird that is endangered in Victoria.

With many sectors of agriculture under the microscope for their impacts on the environment and society, Cobram Estate Olives is leading the way in demonstrating how to respond, adapt, and innovate to cater to the needs of a growing and more sustainability-conscious population.

HW Greenham and Sons

By HW Greenham and Sons, in collaboration with Pinion Advisory, Greenham introduce beef sustainability standard to deliver planet-positive beef to global customers

New Greenham program simplifies sustainability steps for southern beef producers. With growing consumer demand for sustainably-produced beef, Victorian processor, Greenham has launched a practical on-farm program that will also deliver a new Certified Regenerative® product to market.

Greenham’s new Beef Sustainability Standard (GBSS) was developed in close partnership with both producers and customers, and was the first commercial supply chain to apply the Australian Beef Sustainability Framework’s (ABSF) themes of animal welfare, environmental stewardship, economic resilience, and people and the community.

Website: greenham.com.au/

The company has recently purchased industrial drying machines to pilot an initiative with support from Sustainability Victoria. This pilot aims to support the broader olive industry by discovering additional opportunities that can be commercialized by rapidly removing moisture content from the waste. As a result of these initiatives, only 0.5% of operational inputs go to landfill, and economic benefits have been realized in the form of reduced costs and new revenue streams.

To improve outcomes for nature, 1,300 hectares of native vegetation have been fenced off to provide habitat for local fauna and encourage wildlife onto the groves. In addition to protecting existing vegetation, Cobram Estate has set aside 500 hectares of land to be planted with native woodland and mallee species, with the first phase of reforestation occurring in September with direct seeding of 150 hectares at their Boundary Bend grove. This reforestation project is estimated to sequester 50,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions.

As a result of improved native vegetation, it is now common to see native wildlife such as emus, cockatoos, and kangaroos at the groves. The organization has also partnered with the Victorian Malleefowl Recovery Group to protect the threatened Malleefowl, a unique mound-building bird that is endangered in Victoria.

With many sectors of agriculture under the microscope for their impacts on the environment and society, Cobram Estate Olives is leading the way in demonstrating how to respond, adapt, and innovate to cater to the needs of a growing and more sustainability-conscious population.

As Australia’s largest olive producer and a member of key industry bodies, Cobram Estate Olives plays a leading role in advocating for sustainable olive farming as a true example of largescale agriculture that can deliver positive impact in the pillars of health and sustainability

Biodiversity Award

Reef and Rainforest Research Centre

Delivering a paradigm shift in our ability to defend coral and biodiversity on the Great Barrier Reef in collaboration with CSIRO, Great Barrier Reef Foundation, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, NESP Tropical Water Quality Hub

Outbreaks of coral-eating Crown-of-Thorns starfish (COTS) are a serious threat to the health and biodiversity of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR). Unlike other threats such as climate change and water quality, the potential exists for control of these pests by direct human intervention. Previous attempts at manual control had been focused on reef tourism sites, were expensive, and controversial regarding their effectiveness. A paradigm shift was needed.

The Integrated Pest Management (IPM) approach aims to achieve the most efficient and effective control of the pest – and in this instance, protect live coral – given available resources and ecological and logistic considerations.

Website: rrrc.org.au

Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is a well-established approach to pest management on land, but the application of its general principles to marine pest outbreaks had previously not been attempted. The IPM approach aims to achieve the most efficient and effective control of the pest – and in this instance, protect live coral – given available resources and ecological and logistic considerations. The approach enables control programs to evolve in efficiency and effectiveness over time as targeted research fills knowledge gaps and develops and delivers new tools. The Australian Government’s National Environmental Science Program’s Tropical Water Quality Hub (NESP TWQ) brought stakeholders together to jointly produce a research strategy that could deliver what was needed to develop and implement an IPM approach to COTS control on the GBR.

Teams with appropriate expertise from a wide range of institutions (CSIRO, JCU, AIMS, UQ, GBRMPA, AMPTO, RRRC) were identified and harnessed to deliver results in line with the research needs identified in the strategy. Flexibility in the NESP TWQ Hub research management framework, which allowed projects to be designed and commissioned

annually rather than being fixed from the outset, enabled the strategy to be refined and responsive to new information or stakeholder needs over the five years. Regular COTS Working Group meetings held several times each year ensured that researchers remained focused, practitioners remained engaged, and recommendations arising were rapidly implemented in the on-water control program.

The project has filled critical ecological knowledge gaps, developed, evaluated, and delivered new tools and methods for surveillance and control, and has demonstrably improved the capacity for manual COTS control to defend coral cover on the GBR. GBRMPA has keenly adopted these findings, stating that IPM-led manual control currently represents the only demonstrably effective means of addressing the threat posed by COTS and will continue to be a key tool in supporting reef resilience into the future.

The new multidisciplinary insights, methodologies, capabilities, and partnerships fostered through this project are not only demonstrably saving coral and biodiversity –they are delivering socio-economic benefits in terms of investment and job opportunities, with a focus on training programs enabling young local Traditional Owners to care for their Reef Sea Country.

Teams with appropriate expertise from a wide range of institutions (CSIRO, JCU, AIMS, UQ, GBRMPA, AMPTO, RRRC) were identified and harnessed to deliver results in line with the research needs identified in the strategy.

Accounting for Nature

Accounting for Nature works with a range of organisations to implement their Accounting framework – a world leading, scientifically rigorous methodology for measuring environmental condition.

Governments, investors, and consumers need simple to understand, yet scientifically credible metrics, to help them decide whether to support the financing of projects or buying of products that have been produced without degrading the environment and impacting biodiversity. Solving this global challenge will change the way we manage the economy and unlock tens if not hundreds of billions of dollars for environmentally sustainable Investments.

In 2019, Accounting for Nature® (AfN) launched the world’s first transparent, affordable, verifiable, and certifiable environmental accounting framework to inform better investment, policy, and management decisions in natural capital.

Website: accountingfornature.org

The framework include carbon cobenefits, green bonds, environmental offsets, and impact investments.

AfN’s vision is to be a recognised global leader for measuring changes in the health of the environment.

Through measuring these changes, we aim to value nature everywhere and unlock new streams of finance to support environmental conservation and restoration.

The Framework enables the standardised measurement of environmental conditions which is summarised into an index metric - the Econd®. The Econd® is a score between 0 and 100 where 0 is completely degraded and 100 represents the ‘undegraded’ or ‘best possible’ outcome and is determined by comparing the asset condition against a site-specific reference benchmark. Through this process, environmental conditions can be easily communicated, understood, and compared across scales and bioregions. The methods used to measure and calculate environmental asset conditions are assessed and accredited by an independent scientific committee, composed of some of Australia’s leading scientists. This process ensures that environmental accounts maintain scientific rigour and that claims regarding the environmental condition are made with confidence and integrity.

AfN has 45 environmental accounting projects underway In Australia, covering over 6 million hectares of land with an additional 19 projects in pre-registration that cover 6 million hectares of landapproximately 1% of Australia and growing. In November 2022, AfN certified the world’s first regionalscale environmental account that audits the condition of landscape and sets precedent in measuring and communicating the environmental condition and biodiversity risk over large scales.

In addition to developing accounts, the Accounting for Nature® Framework has been used to independently underpin Greencollar’s NaturePlusTM Credit Scheme, a world-first biodiversity credit scheme driven by a scientifically rigorous Standard that generates credits from measured and verified results for nature-based projects.

As a scalable accounting initiative, the Accounting for Nature® Framework is paving the way towards having the world’s first national accounting system that tracks the health of a country’s natural environment. By creating baseline standardised datasets for critical environmental assets, it will allow scientists and land managers to track changes in the health of the environment over time to determine whether it is degrading or improving.

This approach is laying the foundation for the creation of new biodiversity markets. This will attach financial value to the verified improvement in environmental conditions, whilst also mobilising funding into high-value restoration projects in degraded environments. In doing so, it may help solve one of the most urgent problems facing humanity: how to reverse global environmental destruction.

AfN have 45 environmental accounting projects underway covering over 60% million hectares of land approximately 1% of Australia and growing.

ANU Sustainable Farms

BirdCast, a powerful tool that helps farmers identify management actions that could support threatened birds on their properties

“BirdCast is a practical tool that supports farmers and land managers to protect and conserve our shared natural heritage,”

- Michelle Young Director, Sustainable Farms

The Sustainable Farms team has created a powerful tool that helps farmers identify management actions that could support threatened birds on their properties. BirdCast, a free web tool developed by our team at The Australian National University, allows farmers to predict the birds living in woodlands on their farms.

Website: sustainablefarms.org.au

Director of Sustainable Farms at ANU, Michelle Young, said BirdCast helped farmers protect Australia’s incredible wildlife and biodiversity.

“It enables farmers to predict what birds might use and live in woodland areas on their farm, and to understand how the bird species present might change under a range of scenarios, such as planting a new shelterbelt or restoring a degraded patch of remnant woodland.”

“At a time when many species of plants and animals are threatened by extinction, woodland areas on farms are extremely valuable, providing food and homes for many of these species,” Ms Young said. “Temperate woodlands in southeast Australia cover some 506,000 square kilometres. That’s the size of Spain – and most of this area is managed by farmers. “It’s important that management of these areas is supported by science to help protect biodiversity and our precious wildlife living in ecosystems that are under threat.”

The BirdCast web tool is based on decades of research on 62 different bird species, providing farmers and land managers with a wealth of information at the click of a button Sustainable Farms Lead Scientist, Professor David Lindenmayer, said making the data captured by BirdCast easily accessible to farmers was already creating better outcomes.

"It enables farmers to predict bird activity in woodland areas on their farm, as well as understand how the bird species currently present might change under differing scenarios, such as planting a new shelterbelt or restoring a degraded patch of remnant woodland"

“Biodiversity in the woodlands of southeastern Australia is under threat, and farmers are keen to know how they can help turn this around,” Professor Lindenmayer said. “The long-term ecological studies undertaken by our team over two decades mean we have a really good understanding of how wildlife responds to management changes.”

“The BirdCast tool gives land managers a solid indication of how their own changes in management might have a real-world impact on biodiversity,” Professor Lindenmayer said. “It enables land managers to access real science to help them make the best decisions for their farm. “Getting this information into the hands of farmers and land managers means they are better equipped to help protect our wildlife

and ecosystems. “BirdCast supports decisions when it comes to managing woodland areas on farms that are better for our birds, better for our land and better for our environment.”

Regarding BirdCast’s impact, Ms Young said “Here at ANU, our mission is to develop and deliver solutions that improve Australia and our world. We think BirdCast is a great example of that mission.”

“We are proud of the improvements BirdCast is already delivering and the response it has received.”

Glenelg Golf Club

Glenelg Golf club is creating a greener future and protecting urban biodiversity.

Golf courses are a water-guzzling waste of space and a drain on the environment. They are vast areas of grass and they are a lifeless and empty space with little to no biodiversity. These exclusive areas for the rich and privileged provide no benefit to the community. Glenelg Golf Club Course Superintendent, Tim Warren, and Biodiversity Manager, Monina Gilbey, are changing these misconceptions

Golf courses have become a major and fundamental contributor to urban biodiversity by providing a protected haven for wildlife.

Website: glenelggolf.com/cms/

As green spaces disappear rapidly and significantly in urban areas, golf courses have become a major and fundamental contributor to urban biodiversity by providing a protected haven for wildlife. Over ninety species of birds can be found at Glenelg Golf Club – some of which are not regularly seen on the Adelaide Plains, such as Superb Fairy Wrens. Occasionally, migratory birds such as Red-necked stints, who migrate from Siberia to the Coorong (a round trip of 30,000km) can be found at one of their many water courses.

Over ninety species of birds can be found at Glenelg Golf Club – some of which are not regularly seen on the Adelaide Plains.

Hindmarsh Landcare Network

Project Hindmarsh — bringing communities together on Country to restore biodiversity.

Since 1997, Project Hindmarsh has planted over 2 million trees, shrubs, herbs and grasses, protected and restored over 1,000 hectares of roadsides, remnant vegetation and degraded farmland, and involved thousands of volunteers in on-ground activities. This has directly contributed to Australia meeting the United Nation’s SDG targets.

Project Hindmarsh is an initiative of the Hindmarsh Landcare Network, a vision to reconnect the Big Desert and Little Desert regions in Victoria’s wild west through a series of biolinks across a fractured landscape.

Website: hindmarshlandcare.org.au/

Project Hindmarsh planting weekends have been bringing together volunteers from city and country, planting corridors, protecting and restoring remnants. For over 20 years, this has been an effective approach to community involvement in restoring and connecting terrestrial ecosystems. However, the landscape is changing. Social expectations for addressing biodiversity decline are becoming more urgent, engaging Traditional Owners in the restoration of Country is important, and revegetation needs to address ecosystem function and biodiversity decline at all scales.

Reflecting on their past achievements raised the important questionare we making a difference, or are we just planting trees? Is Project Hindmarsh rebuilding functioning ecological systems and providing a broad community sense of ownership of nature? Are we restoring Country? Or are we just putting plants in the ground and feeling good about ourselves? These fundamental questions drove their new approach to building biolinks. They now view ecosystem restoration as a wholistic inclusion of broad community participation, Traditional Owner oncountry culture and connection, supported by sound ecological principles.

Project Hindmarsh began engaging Traditional Owners and undertaking cultural heritage assessments of all our planting sites. They expanded their community volunteer base to give regional communities a greater sense of involvement and ownership of Project Hindmarsh. Their planting weekends are now hosted in different Wimmera towns each year so that planting weekends become a major event there, involving partnerships with local community groups and businesses. They undertake environmental education through regular ecological workshops, community ‘walk and

talks’, student engagement and regular social media posts. Project Hindmarsh has also been undertaking biodiversity monitoring across an age range of planting sites, using birds as indicators of biodiversity, to better understand the ecological effectiveness of revegetation. Through these new approaches, Hindmarsh Landcare Network ensures greater inclusion in our annual plantings, maintains clear ecological goals and biodiversity outcomes, that Traditional Owners are engaged on Country, and that Project Hindmarsh belongs to the community.

They communicate their successes, and failures, to a broad audience so that others may learn, be inspired, emulate, and critique the goals and objectives of Project Hindmarsh.

The legacy of this initiative are their achievements of sound restoration of ecosystems, threatened species recovery and biodiversity improvement, helping Australia meet targets towards the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Their legacy is also their part in bringing city and country together, and their reconnection of communities on Country, the land of our First Nations people.

Since 1997, Project Hindmarsh has planted over 2 million trees, shrubs, herbs and grasses, protected and restored over 1,000 hectares of roadsides, remnant vegetation and degraded farmland, and involved thousands of volunteers in on-ground activities.

Lady Elliot Island Eco Resort

Lady Elliot Island Eco Resort is on a mission to rehabilitate the natural ecosystem from a dilapidated mine site to a flourishing coral cay.

Lady Elliot Island Eco Resort is on a mission to rehabilitate the natural ecosystem from a dilapidated mine site to a flourishing coral cay. Through a thriving public-privatecommunity partnership, Lady Elliot Island is working towards four main goals; increasing the resilience of the Island to the adverse impacts of climate change, enhancing the native cay vegetation communities, maximising the breeding opportunities for important fauna, and reducing the impacts of previously introduced species.

The Lady Elliot Island Revegetation Program was the first of its kind applicable to the niche of tropical reef islands, ultimately becoming an example for other islands locally and overseas. However, there are many aspects and learnings that are applicable to all areas of biodiversity conservation.

Website: ladyelliot.com.au/

The Island’s Revegetation Program is recognised as a global exemplar of island restoration and protection with many successes to date, including 16 hectares restored out of a total of 29 to be completed, 9,700 coral cay native trees, shrubs, vines, groundcovers, and grasses planted, 468 native plants re-planted in the resort and a 125% increase in turtle habitat. A total of 8,700 hours of volunteer time from 248 individuals contributed to the island restoration, and now there are over 550 people on Lady Elliot Island’s community volunteer register.

In the last 14 months, in partnership with a local production company, Lady Elliot Island has developed a 12-part docuseries titled "Life on the Reef." This docuseries showcases untold stories and behind the scenes footage of the critical research taking place on the Island, including an episode on Ecosystem Resilience. Episode #10, Ecosystem Resilience, provides viewers with extensive background on the revegetation program taking place on Lady Elliot Island and how regenerating the terrestrial ecosystem is benefiting overall reef health. This episode only recently released and already has reached almost 1000 views, with the entire series amassing almost 40,000 views.

The island rehabilitation was recognised by HRH King Charles during his 2018 Australian Commonwealth visit. At that time, he nominated Lady Elliot as the primary venue for a conservation summit of 30 of Australia’s most influential business executives, for open discussion on reef health and biodiversity conservation for future generations.

Since then, three additional Islands have started following Lady Elliot Island’s example on the Great Barrier Reef under the Reef Islands Initiative. In June 2022, the program and research were presented at the World

Island Sustainability Conference.

Lady Elliot Island aims to restore the natural coral cay ecosystem, creating an ark for both terrestrial and marine flora and fauna on the Great Barrier Reef.

This program and its success have only been possible due to the effective partnership model. The Reef Islands Initiative is a Great Barrier Reef Foundation program, supported by funding from Lendlease, the Australian Government’s Reef Trust, the Queensland Government, and the Fitzgerald Family Foundation. Other partners include Queensland Parks and Wildlife Services, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, the community, and Traditional Owners.

The Island's Revegetation Program is recognised as a global exemplar:

16 hectares

restored out of a total of 29

9700

coral cay native trees, shrubs, vines, groundcovers, and grasses planted

468

native plants replanted in the resort

125% increase in turtle habitat

The Nature School

The Nature School photographed living things in the school playground and surrounding Innes Peninsula and then used the iNaturalist app to upload images to the Atlas of Living Australia for identification to document local biodiversity.

Website: tns.nsw.edu.au/

The purpose of The Nature School’s biodiversity project was to document the range of living things in the school playground and wider Innes Peninsula. The project also addressed Sustainable Development Goal 4 – Quality Education, and Goal 15 – Life on Land. The educational goal was to create a learning project initiated by student interest and then demonstrate how technology can be used to investigate and track life on land, linking to SDG 15.

Meridith Ebbs, The Nature School

The project was a real-world STEM project, integrating the use of citizen science, technology and maths. The project resulted in the observation of 3 vulnerable and one critically endangered species.

The project integrated low-cost resources freely available to schools and citizens on the web to participate in citizen science projects. This biodiversity project contributes to national and international projects monitoring pollinators, frogs, birds and general biodiversity. The fundamental resource for the project was the iNaturalist app and website. Once students located a living thing, they called the teacher to take a photograph which was then uploaded using the iNaturalist app. This method was used due to the age limits on the app. The project stimulated casual and formal conversations about biodiversity and the interrelatedness of living things. The year 3-4 classes also had the opportunity to complete field studies on a range of species and map their location in the Innes Nature Reserve. Students used technology known as Microbits to create counters, light and temperature sensors to survey areas. They also tallied and graphed the variety of species by their taxonomic class using spreadsheets. The biodiversity project allowed students to explore living things in the school playground and local area. The iNaturalist app was an easy way to collate species and then use the data for activities that linked to classroom activities.

Warddeken Land Management Ltd

Preserving biodiversity and biocultural heritage in West Arnhem Land

The unique fauna of the Warddeken Indigenous Protected Area is important to Bininj (Aboriginal people) as totemic beings - key figures in creation stories, food, the subject of ceremonial songs and as co-inhabitants of the kuwarddewardde's (stone country) living landscape.

Many of the threats to healthy country are also a threat to native mayh (animals), and the interactions of these threats are contributing to the decline of many important species. Such threats include inappropriate fire regimes, impacts of feral species (herbivores, feral cats, and cane toads), weeds, and wildfires.

Website: warddeken.org.au/

Warddeken Land Management has undertaken management works to reduce these threats to country, people, and mayh. In 2017, a biodiversity monitoring program was established, which is the foundation of understanding the impact of our land management practice and programs with the IPA.

In the face of ongoing mammal declines across northern Australia, the long-term monitoring program is helping us develop targeted ecological research and management actions for priority species, and the sustained local support for the project is a testament to the aspirations of Warddeken people to conserve mayh and the biocultural heritage of the stone country.

The Mayh Species Recovery Program aims to continue to deliver bestpractice collaborative works with rangers and Landowners, and remains committed to establishing two-way ecological research. In addition to working at the forefront of ecological research, the program continues to generate strong engagement and employment of Landowners and rangers, as well as producing a host of cultural knowledge resources and learning opportunities to ensure that the positive outcomes of the program extend far beyond the scientific.

Rangers and landowners are actively involved in the collection, processing, and reporting of ecological data to assist landowners in making informed decisions for biodiversity management on their own estates. The integration of landscape scale and fine-scale management works are beyond ‘business as usual’ and represent the desire of landowners to undertake interventionist action to support threatened species populations.

All groundworks of the program facilitate the participation of traditional landowners from the region in the Warddeken IPA.

Rangers are active in the collection, processing and reporting of data, processing images with species names in a bilingual database, identifying individual feral cats, and creating poster reports for landowners.

The program is committed to equity to employ at least 50% of women across all program activities (e.g., fieldwork, data processing, workshops). Warddeken Rangers excel in their digital skills to collect, analyse, and tell stories with their data, but are also committed to continuing to learn and apply their skills in caring for country.

By collecting data and sharing it with landowners and partners, they inspire each other to continue the challenge in conserving their endemic species in the stone country.

“We are really happy to see them back on this landscape and back where they belong because the connection is there, with our spirit, with us, with the land, and with the story, with the songline, with the dance”

— Terrah Guymala.

Circular Transition Award

MCi Carbon

MCi Carbon transforms carbon dioxide into building materials and other valuable products for the circular economy.

MCi Carbon (MCi) is a world-leading Australian clean technology company that transforms carbon dioxide into building materials and other valuable industrial products. Recently, MCi won The Clean Energy Start-up Pitch Battle at COP26 in Glasgow. MCi has an industrial headquarters in Newcastle and a global reference pilot plant at

the Newcastle Institute for Energy and Resources (NIER), which won the Clean Technology Award at the 2022 NSW Sustainability Awards presented by Banksia.

Website: mineralcarbonation.com/

MCi Carbon (MCi) is a world-leading Australian clean technology company that transforms carbon dioxide into building materials and other valuable industrial products.

MCi is a global leader in mineral carbonation, a naturally occurring process that the team has accelerated from thousands of years into a matter of hours. MCi Carbon's patented technology is safe, permanent, and profitable, and has the potential to lock away billions of tonnes of CO2 emissions every year. The technology leads a new cleantech field called CO2 Utilization or Carbon Capture and Use (CCU), which treats CO2 as a resource rather than waste. MCi has received global recognition for its R&D, including the 2018 Resource Innovator of the Year award at the New Materials Summit in Berlin and featured at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2020 and the WEF Pioneers of Change Summit 2021.

MCi's global reference pilot plant validates a growing pipeline of global commercial scale opportunities. After 15 years of intense R&D with substantial Australian Government and industry investment, MCi is scaling its technology and working with customers and partners to identify the best industrial locations to build its first Industrialscale Carbon Plants to capture CO2 emissions and convert them profitably into solid materials called carbonates. These carbonates are used in many construction, consumer,

and manufactured products, further reducing carbon footprints in products and supporting the circular economy. This double carbon reduction delivers a negative carbon lifecycle benefit and produces highquality, verifiable, and permanent carbon offsets.

MCi Carbon's Pilot Plant continues to inform the curation and design of MCi's cutting-edge demonstration plant, which will be constructed at Orica's Kooragang Island manufacturing site in Newcastle, cofunded by the $14.6 million Federal Government grant secured in 2021. MCi has designed a scalable system that is modular and mobile to combine various industrial emissions and feedstock sources to create a variety of output products. This flexible design will allow MCi to rapidly validate customer projects and dramatically reduce timelines for final investment decisions on future decarbonization plants. In

2023, MCi will begin exploration for suitable feedstocks and will begin construction once DA approvals are completed. New patents were awarded in Europe, the US, and India, with MCi Chief Scientist Geoff Brent coming across to MCi from Orica. Geoff, who is part of MCi's core founding team, manages the entire IP portfolio and was the author of MCi's first awarded patent back in 2007.

MCi has a close collaboration with ITOCHU Corporation, matching the technology with the demand for carbon recycling in Japan. In August of this year, MCi announced an MoU between ITOCHU and Taisei Construction, assisting further investigation and assessment for using MCi products as a raw material in concrete and leveraging the strengths of the three companies to build a zero-carbon society.

Recycle Mate

Recycle Mate is Australia’s first artificial intelligence community-driven recycling app

Recycle Mate now offers a live platform for all local councils, recyclers, community groups and more to all join the one conversation to gather, deliver and maintain current information in the community, anywhere in Australia as the industry evolves. It avoids duplication of effort, supports organisations with limited community engagement resources and provides an additional communication channel for others.

Website: recyclemate.com.au/

By Adaptation Environmental Support Pty Ltd and ACOR (Australian Council of Recycling)

The program is being led by the recycling industry, via the Australian Council of Recycling (ACOR) - the peak national body for the recycling supply chain in collaboration with the Australian Government and a wide audience of recycling stakeholders who understand the issues and what is needed to improve recycling.

The recycling industry is not static as work is continually going into improving and building a thriving local industry that works to achieve a circular economy and strong local economy. This requires the support of a dynamic education approach to effectively communicate with one of our most important stakeholders – the community. It all starts with people putting the right thing in the right place. We need to get the message right and keep people up to date with the changes.

Recycle Mate is the first top-down recycling education program of its kind in Australia.

The introduction of Australia’s first artificial intelligence app offers an innovative technique to re-engage people to check their recycling habits and find new solutions to the general waste bin. Every community question is answered, and the knowledge is shared back into the program for all to benefit.

The live data hub allows all data contributors to update information anytime. The program data is synced every 7 days which provides the opportunity to align our community education with the dynamic nature of our evolving industry.

Behind the scenes, Recycle Mate is Australia’s largest national collaborative recycling education and waste database, consisting of:

• Australia’s most comprehensive recycling glossary of over 5,700 items, which is continually growing with new community questions

• A national directory of all local government kerbside waste and recycling systems across Australia, documenting bin type, bin lid colour and waste stream separation (around 70 unique kerbside recycling systems are now programmed)

• A National Waste database of over 30,000 geolocated facilities where the community can return items for reuse, recycling, repair or safe disposal – accepted items are linked to the facilities via customised waste tickets.

Recycle Mate is the first top-down recycling education program of its kind in Australia.

Fungi Solutions

Fungi Solutions create natural alternatives to polystyrene using waste and fungi.

Fungi Solutions was established in September 2020 to reimagine organic waste by harnessing the adaptive capabilities of fungi to; recapture natural resources being sent to landfill to produce clean and circular MycoMaterials, and remediate damaged ecosystems.

We are a social enterprise working to reduce reliance on harmful petrochemicals and instead utilise undervalued resources to generate revenue for communities. Our goal is to sequester carbon and produce regenerative material solutions for Australian enterprises nationwide by establishing a Myco-Cycling industry to create value, wherever there is waste.

Website: fungisolutions.com.au/

“We see organic waste as an opportunity to diversify and grow resilient communities while creating a new kind of regenerative material; producing bio-regenerative product solutions that are home compostable. When composted, our products return to the earth in just 12 weeks and enrich the soil to improve the natural soil microbiome.”

The Fungi Solutions' vision is to create a network of Myco-Cycling facilities across Australia, ultimately eliminating the need to ship waste or create new landfill sites. These facilities will enrich local communities and help to establish a more sustainable and circular economy. Similar to mycelium (the root network of a mushroom), our organisation is a web-facilitating resource exchange that improves resilience throughout the network. The team works collaboratively with Australian Businesses and supports the network to grow, by connecting waste producers to businesses requiring sustainable solutions.

“Our first year of operation has proven that our innovative, community-led Myco-Cycling business model is feasible, and that there is a growing market for sustainable and regenerative product solutions. To date, through our Myco-Cycling programs, we have successfully diverted 1 tonne of organic waste from landfill, generating additional revenue streams for local producers and enabling us to sequester 2.65 tonnes of C02-equivalent from being released. This first year has also seen us grow our community network to include 22 strategic partnerships with local councils, not-for-profits, community groups and local businesses.”

Through establishing an expanding community network, they connect local waste producers with local businesses looking for environmentally friendly product and packaging solutions. By diverting valuable resources from landfill, carbon can be captured to generate new revenue streams for businesses while building a circular economy framework in Victoria.

Myco-Cycling gives communities an opportunity to develop a new sustainable manufacturing industry, generating jobs and ongoing economic opportunities. As this is a world-first approach to waste management and pollutant remediation, developing this network will be pivotal in solidifying Australia as a world leader in resource management and sustainable manufacturing.

Despite running for just 2 years, our team have been fortunate enough to receive a number of accolades. Fungi Solutions has been awarded the winner of the Early Ethical Enterprise Melbourne Climate Futures Awards 2021, Early Ethical Enterprise People’s Choice Award 2021 and

Red Hat Impact Award 2021. They were recognised as the winner of the "Ones to Watch" Accolade by the judges of the Circle Awards in 2021. This year we have had the honour of being awarded the Sustainability and Environment Category of the Northern Business Achievement Awards, Leaders in STEM for the Women In Business Awards, the Circular Economy Category and the Premier's Choice Award at the Premier's Sustainability Awards 2022. With more to come as the organisation grows, the Fungi Solutions team are excited to scale up their impact and reimagine waste for a more circular future.

Huskee

Waste Made Beautiful: Huskee is implementing a Closed-Loop, Full Circle Sustainable Coffee Cups Program.

Approximately 23 million tons of agricultural waste are generated annually by the processing of coffee. The husks and pulp from coffee processing are large solid residues that currently have few sustainable uses and whose proper disposal poses significant environmental problems, and Huskee saw this as an opportunity rather than a problem.

Website: huskee.co/

Huskee’s initial design goals were to design an elegant reusable cup that would enable people and businesses to eliminate single-use plastics while utilising a waste product of their own industry. HuskeeCups were developed as a unique copolymer material, where they were able to work directly with coffee farmers to incorporate coffee husk waste into their products. Since operating in 2017, over 600 tonnes of husk have been repurposed into consumer products.

Globally, the coffee industry uses an estimated 600 billion disposable single-use cups a year when serving coffee, and is one of the most common plastic litter items impacting our oceans and planet. Huskee as

Huskee’s initial design goals were to design an elegant reusable cup that would enable people and businesses to eliminate single-use plastics while utilising a waste product of their own industry

a business was designed to tackle this problem - elegantly. Using the four elements of smart sustainable design (viability, desirability, tech feasibility, and nature circularity), Huskee is playing a substantial role in challenging the linear consumption model currently in place.

Their HuskeeSwap program is a unique opt-in reuse system designed for cafes and businesses with tangible benefits for both businesses and the planet. Designed as a simple system that maximises behaviour change while minimising the impact on business workflows, the system allows easy opportunities for both cafes and consumers to participate at scale. With over 1,000 HuskeeSwap sites currently registered around the world, the program is eliminating single-use cups at the source.

Huskee has also developed the HuskeeLoop stewardship program, which ensures that Huskee can capture end-of-life products and enable them to create new products from these materials. This is unique to the industry with most reusable services providing products that are not kerbside recyclable and not returnable to the companies. Huskee’s research and development on the program have allowed them to create new products from 100% endof-life material, without any further

material inputs. The first product launched was the Huskee Dog Bowl, which creates a tangible and visible link from cups to new products.

In late 2022, Huskee was proud to launch its newest range HuskeeRenew. This new, transparent and glasslike range incorporates circularity by utilising 50% postconsumer plastic in the products, which allows Huskee to contribute to circularity targets and proactively contribute to the 2025 targets of the ANZPAC Plastics Pact. Huskee was a recent winner in 2022 of both the Full Circle and Retaining Value Awards at the Australian Circular Economy (ACE) awards.

As of 2022, here are some of Huskee’s significant positive impact stories:

• Global Scale - Over 2,000 retailers and over 1,000 HuskeeSwap sites around the world

• Conservatively over 1.6 Million single-use cups have been eliminated at the source through HuskeeSwap businesses

• The HuskeeLoop program has delivered its first closedloop products made from 100% HuskeeCup

• A growing B-Corp-certified company, employing 26 people to create change

Repurpose It

Leading Australian waste recycling business, Repurpose It, has built the country’s first wash plant in its mission to reduce the vast amount of construction and demolition waste going to landfill.

Leading the Australian waste recycling business, Repurpose It has built the country’s first wash plant in its mission to reduce the vast amount of often untreatable construction and demolition waste going to landfill.

Launched in March 2019, the state-of-the-art construction and demolition washing plant facility is located in Epping, Victoria, across a 230-acre site.

Website: repurposeit.com.au/

The wash plant is unique and groundbreaking as it is the first of its kind in Australia that can recover valuable resources from contaminated soils. This is achieved through a unique process of washing and recycling what is usually difficult to recover materials, involving advanced screening, scrubbing, and water treatment.

The recovered supplies include aggregates, sand, soil, and landscaping materials which are then turned into quality products for the construction industry. Through the repurposing of these materials, we are preventing valuable resources from going to landfill and negating the need for extractive materials.

Since its inception, the wash plant has diverted 2.5 million tonnes of spoil from landfill. The wash plant also saves 84,000 tonnes of CO2 annually.

This facility is helping to fundamentally change the way Australians recycle these materials. It provides the opportunity for these valuable resources to be used again, from road construction to landscaping materials.

Repurpose It exists to make premium quality materials accessible to everyone and champion the potential of a circular economy. Our mission is to eliminate waste and pollution through closed-loop resource recovery. We believe these systems are essential if we are to preserve resources for future generations.

The organisation is the brainchild of co-founder and CEO, George Hatzimanolis. After more than 15 years in the civil works and construction industry, he was compelled to establish something that would bring significant change to the industry in order to make the biggest impact on sustainability.

One way of doing this was to reduce the construction industry’s reliance on extractive resources and instead reuse existing materials. After extensive research into best practice processes, including world-leading technology that converts traditionally

difficult-to-treat waste into resources, the development of Repurpose It began in 2017.

The recovery site features the country’s most sophisticated technology, designed to treat residual waste and transform it into materials suitable to be utilised by the booming civil construction industry.

Since its inception, the wash plant has diverted 2.5 million tonnes of spoil from landfill. The wash plant also saves 94,000 tonnes of CO2 annually.

Thor’s Hammer

Canberra business Thor’s Hammer has created a unique timber salvaging supply chain and recycling profitability model with a simple mission; keep quality timber out of landfill by disrupting the demolition process, and design high quality products to increase demand for and appreciation of recycled timber.

Thor's Hammer is a Canberra business with a unique timber salvaging supply chain and recycling profitability model.

Started by Thor Diesendorf over 28 years ago, the business’ mission is simple; keep quality timber out of landfill by

Website: thors.com.au/

disrupting the demolition process, and design high quality products to increase demand for and appreciation of recycled timber.

As a business that is deeply concerned about the state of the planet—in particular climate change, waste and deforestation—Thor’s Hammer has unleashed an innovative circular solution by creating a viable model for demolition companies to profit from site waste.

Their approach to diverting recycled timber from landfill is a unique business model—a transformation of the traditional logging, sawmill and furniture manufacturing business models. They are a sawmill, a recycled timber supplier, and a recycled timber furniture maker and design studio, all at the same time, under the same roof, allowing unrivalled agility on both the supply and demand side.

Each year, they divert more than 1000 tonnes of timber waste from landfill. They offer the construction, joinery and furniture industries an alternative to the new, unsustainably-harvested timber more commonly used, which is contributing to a global deforestation crisis. Proving that the model works, Thor’s Hammer has doubled turnover in the past 3 years and continues to invest heavily in new technologies and in building first-rate team of designers, artisans and tradespeople.

During the Financial Years 20192020, 2020-2021 & 2021-2022, they:

• Diverted over 2500 tonnes of timber from landfill through their salvaging supply chain

• Sold the following products using timber salvaged from demolition sites:

- 34,316m2 of recycled timber flooring, cladding and decking products

- 2,424 furniture and joinery pieces and projects

- 73,068 lineal metres of recycled posts, beams & timber salvaged from bridges, wharves and telegraph posts

• Donated $46,378 through their 10% for Not for Profits program

• Grew to a team of 35

The success of Thor’s Hammer is a result of the following innovative approaches:

• Supply chain transformation by working with demolition companies to create a profitable model for separating and recycling timber.

• Investing in best in class processing facilities that have dramatically increased their recycling capacity.

• Developing innovative product design and manufacturing methods and teams, making everything to order and enabling high volumes of fully customised jobs to be fulfilled efficiently.

• Taking a creative communications approach by telling the fascinating histories of the salvaged timber in ways that the construction industry typically doesn’t.

• Committing to a holistic approach to reducing their carbon footprint, by electrifying the business, utilising all waste and donating 10% of profits to environmental and conservation NFPs.

With the potential to be scalable, transferable and have longevity, Thor’s Hammer’s business model offers a promising blueprint for other businesses working in construction and woodwork. With huge potential for more timber to be saved from demolition sites in the ACT, and all over Australia, Thor’s Hammer’s innovative circular solution will be sorely needed in the construction industry in the coming years.

They are a sawmill, a recycled timber supplier, and a recycled timber furniture make and design studio, all at the same time, under the same roof, allowing unrivalled agility on both the supply and demand side.

Diversity and Inclusion Award

Ventia

At Ventia we’re proud of our diverse workforce; in particular we’re passionate about providing opportunities for people with disability and building an inclusive culture – we now have 150 + employees with disability in roles including help desk, administration, data analysis and soft services.

Working across diverse communities in Australia and New Zealand, Ventia's workforce must reflect this diversity so that they better understand the communities in which they operate. To ensure a diverse workforce, they need to look at their workforce through the lens of identifiers such as gender, cultural background, and abilities.

Ventia is passionate about providing opportunities for people with disabilities and building an inclusive culture. Contracts across Australia have created opportunities for people with disabilities to contribute to their focus on redefining service excellence for their clients.

Website: ventia.com/

They have 150+ employees with disabilities in roles including help desk, administration, data entry, and soft services, with one contract alone seeing a significant increase in disability employment in just over 12 months. They achieved their growth by appointing a Disability and Social Inclusion Manager to drive cultural change, reviewing job design, engaging on-site leaders for buyin, engaging disability employment operators, and seeking regular feedback.

To make this growing program sustainable, they reinforced and expanded the initial program and positioned it for success. Key to this success is their engagement with employer partner with JobAccess. With their support, Ventia is enhancing systems, processes, policies, and awareness across the company. The most significant activity was the delivery of disability awareness training, with over 380 hiring managers participating. Feedback suggested that it opened their eyes to what was possible in recruiting people with disabilities.

The program helped Ventia meet the challenges of getting leaders and supervisors to support this drive for diversity, to find and recruit employees with a disability, and to ensure they are supported and finding satisfaction in their careers with Ventia. This training was followed

by a train-the-trainer session, helping to build internal capacity to continue delivering training.

JobAccess detailed recommendations are furthermore implemented across Ventia with support from different teams. For example, the Communications team is focused on improving external communications on their channels for vision-impaired people and updated training for hearingimpaired participants. The Safety team is scoping the implementation of adjustments to systems and processes. Recruitment is ensuring the hire-to-retire process supports the engagement of people with a disability.

Ventia has successfully retained employees with disabilities through a carefully managed performance review process. Additional support is given if an employee isn't performing to ensure they understand what the issues are and helping resolve those, rather than assuming the worst. By changing the way any cases were addressed and ensuring leaders take time to understand the challenges and reasons for poor performance, Ventia has resolved the issues and retained those employees.

The opportunity of engaging people with disabilities has also seen teams look outside of direct employment to engage suppliers that employ

people with disabilities. For example, the Telecommunications team works with Australian Spatial Analytics, who provide spatial analysts that bring their exceptional abilities to the field of data analytics. Their Mornington Peninsula Shire Contract has engaged a disability enterprise – Waverley Industries - to provide operations and maintenance services, including land maintenance activities.

As their Project Director said: "Through this program, we are enabling people to do the right thing. The more we bring people on the journey, the more it snowballs."

"Through this program, we are enabling people to do the right thing. The more we bring people on the journey, the more it snowballs."

Bunzl

Bunzl Asia Pacific (Bunzl) has established and implemented meaningful programs and partnerships to create an inclusive leadership system, and support women, veterans, and First Nations communities in successful employment and business outcomes.

Bunzl Asia Pacific

a B2B distribution company comprised of 11 smaller business entities supplying a range of sectors including healthcare, retail, manufacturing, and mining. Their diversity and inclusion strategy is embedded within all levels of their operations across the Asia-Pacific region.

Website: bunzlasiapacific.com/

Bunzl’s Expansive Diversity and Inclusion Strategy.

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Bunzl is ever evolving, and their employees brim with passion to do more. As the company expands further, Bunzl intends to prove its core belief "that through diversity, we build strength"

At a strategic level, Bunzl embodies the beliefs instilled by its Londonbased parent company, Bunzl plc, that diversity in a work force builds strength and is essential for a resilient and capable business. Bunzl emphasises that these differences bring unique talents and value propositions, which are assets to be embraced. This is mirrored in Bunzl’s Equality and Diversity Policy and Speak-Up Policy, which has set the conduct for all of Bunzl.

The company has actioned this vision by putting many programs and strategies in place, including training leadership team members, embracing employee suggestions, growing

their diversity networks, providing mentoring programs to marginalised groups, and celebrating diversity in local and global communications. However, three key streams and their programs have delivered the real impact:

1. Inclusive leadership: Inclusivity in Governance; Inspiring Women in Bunzl and International Women’s Day

2. Career transition: Career Revive; Soldier On Australia; Fortem

3. Indigenous engagement: Supply Nation; Cole Suppliers (Boomerang); Kulbardi; Ochre Sun; Clontarf Foundation

These streams have shown great success. Their Inclusive leadership program has boosted the number of women in leadership positions to 47%, from 36% in the prior year, and shows women receiving slightly greater pay than men. This is actively empowered by Bunzl’s self-innovated Inspiring Women at Bunzl program and International Women’s Day events. These connect and energise women and provide a mentoring pathway to learn the skills to thrive, even in a male-dominated industry.

In the Career transition stream, Bunzl is working with KPMG to understand how we can assist women returning to work after a break in their career. They have engaged women of all roles and seniorities and received

recommendations to create a more inclusive workplace, which will be expanded to all distribution centres. Similarly, Bunzl’s partnership with Soldier On Australia and Fortem pushes the company’s job vacancies direct to veterans and First Responders leaving their roles to provide them with long-term fulfilling work, connection, and reintegration.

To support First Nations peoples and culture, Bunzl proudly runs its Indigenous engagement initiatives. Their Bunzl Safety and Lifting (BSL) business is a member of Supply Nation, allowing them to connect with registered Indigenous businesses. Bunzl have formed meaningful connections with Indigenous-owned businesses through their procurement program, which has supported businesses such as Cole Supplies, Kulbardi and Ochre Sun to grow. Bunzl completes additional work with the Clontarf Foundation to provide warehouse tours and employment to young First Nations men, and has successfully employed two men through this program at their Bunzl Safety and Lifting business in Paget Mackay.

Bunzl’s strategy is ever evolving, and their employees brim with passion to do more. As the company expands further, Bunzl intends to prove its core belief “that through diversity, we build strength.”

DIVERSITY

Chandler Macleod

Chandler Macleod, in partnership with the Jobs Victoria, founded the No Glass Ceiling Program; an initiative that sources, develops, and cultivates women over 45 years of age into new lines of employment.

Chandler Macleod, in partnership with Jobs Victoria, are proud to have founded the No Glass Ceiling Program. This initiative sources, develops, and cultivates women over 45 years of age into new lines of employment. With 2-3 weeks of paid bespoke training, individualised case management plans, psychometric assessments, and an intensive post-placement support framework, this program has been developed with accessibility front-of-mind.

Website: chandlermacleod.com/

In collaboration with Jobs Victoria

"At Chandler Macleod, creating opportunities is our day-to-day. The No Glass Ceiling Program allows us to utilise our expertise to make a positive impact in our community and for the women participating in the program. Employment equity benefits us all, so we are proud to be contributing towards a balancing of the scales"

During the sourcing process, Chandler Macleod’s Equity Employment Team targeted women over 45 who were longterm unemployed from multicultural communities, ex-offenders, experiencing domestic violence, and jobseekers who are ineligible for Commonwealth Employment Services. They identified capable women who were often met with social and cultural barriers and set out to offer them an opportunity for meaningful and sustainable employment in often male-dominated industries.

“At Chandler Macleod, creating opportunities is our day-to-day. The

No Glass Ceiling Program allows us to utilise our expertise to make a positive impact in our community and for the women participating in the program. Employment equity benefits us all, so we are proud to be contributing towards a balancing of the scales.”- Nick Gabrielidis, Executive General Manager, Chandler Macleod

Since the program was conceptualised, it was evident to the Chandler Macleod Equity Employment Team that ‘opportunity’ was the greatest distance to employment for the women. The No Glass Ceiling program provides a unique model; the opportunity for women over 45 who have limited workplace experience to demonstrate transferrable skills within a supportive environment that builds confidence and offers intervention strategies to overcome perceived and real barriers. One way Chandler Macleod chose to address these barriers was by offering the female cohorts flexibility across different factors including location, hours of work, childcare arrangements, and other external commitments to ensure accessibility. Chandler Macleod is driven by the opportunity to improve employment equity in Australia, to support those seeking financial autonomy, and by the stories of the women whose lives have already been transformed by the program.

Chandler Macleod is one of the region’s largest recruitment providers. Founded over 60 years ago by organisational psychologists, they know what it takes to recruit, select and retain the best people. There are four main businesses operating under the Chandler Macleod umbrella; Staffing Services, Consulting, xPO Talent Solutions and Managed Services. Chandler Macleod forms part of Recruit Holdings fourth largest staffing firm in the world.

Since November 2022, the success of the No Glass Ceiling Program has been evident with:

• 169 women having completed the program

• 89% of the women who had entered the program being offered employment with host sites

• 6% being referred to white collar roles as a preference for placement

• 3% having found other employment, stating they now felt confident to pursue their ‘dream role’

• 2% that whilst benefitting from the program, required more intensive post program support and intervention strategies to address barriers to employment.

Ethical Sourcing Award

The Pimpama River Conservation Area is located on the southern bank of the Pimpama River and borders the Southern Moreton Bay Marine Park and a Ramsar listed wetland.

Philip Chan, University of Sydney

Philip Chan has transformed the role of procurement to be a powerful force for good, developing a culture of best practice and collaboration for ethical and sustainable supply chains at the University of Sydney.

A lawyer by training, academic by night and innovator at heart — Philip Chan has transformed the role of procurement to be a powerful force for good.

Philip is the Senior Manager of Ethical and Sustainable Procurement at the University of Sydney. His leadership, innovation and passion have helped the University adopt a sector-leading approach to ethical and sustainable sourcing, including respecting human rights in the supply chain, partnering with Indigenous suppliers and social enterprises, and promoting sustainable procurement.

Website: linkedin.com/in/philipchan01/?originalSubdomain=nl

He is motivated by creating lasting change in his community by combining meaningful implementation with deep collaboration. He is not only changing procurement policies and processes to achieve real-world impacts, but changing hearts and minds on ethical and sustainable sourcing.

Philip has implemented the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights to create a sector-leading approach to address modern slavery in the University’s wide-ranging supply chains. He has embedded modern slavery due diligence into the procurement lifecycle and implemented 120 independent sustainability and human rights risk assessments in one year.

Philip is part of the anti-slavery leadership team at the Australian Universities Procurement Network, a sector partnership of 38 universities that collaborate and expand leverage with suppliers to address modern slavery. To creatively raise awareness on campus, he organised the University’s collaboration with Anti-Slavery Australia to showcase the Human Mart exhibition. He is also involved in the University’s partnerships with the Cleaning Accountability Framework and Electronics Watch to engage with potentially affected rights-holders and unions.

Philip has been the driving force behind the University’s approach to Indigenous procurement and engagement with Supply Nation, NSW Indigenous Chamber of Commerce and Indigenous suppliers. He led the development of the Indigenous Procurement Strategy, which is innovative in its bottomup approach of consultation, pilot testing, data analysis and evaluation to maximise genuine impact. Through listening, learning and collaborating with Indigenous experts and suppliers, Philip has created a culture of meaningful relationships over transactional engagements.

The University achieved remarkable impacts in one year — doubling its 2022 Indigenous procurement spend compared to 2021.

Philip has collaborated across the University to introduce sustainable purchasing opportunities, including eliminating certain single-use plastics and introducing an Ethical, Sustainable and Indigenous category on the University’s internal buying catalogue – a ‘one-stop shop’ for staff to make a difference. He has introduced assessments for 120 suppliers on environmental impact and sustainable procurement. In collaboration with the University’s education portfolio, he developed the University’s industry subject on ‘Ethical and Sustainable Supply Chains’, mentoring and inspiring 48 undergraduate students from diverse disciplines to become leaders in ethical and sustainable sourcing.

Philip’s dedication and passion have created a lasting culture of purpose and pride within the University and elevated the importance of procurement to positively impact people and planet.

Philip's dedication and passion have created a lasting culture of purpose and pride within the University and elevated the importance of procurement to positively impact people and planet.

Coles Group Limited

Coles is committed to safeguarding horticulture workers’ rights and wellbeing in Australia.

Coles is one of the principal retail buyers of horticulture in Australia. They care deeply about the welfare and safety of workers in our supply chain. Coles work closely with their internal buying teams, growers, suppliers

and other stakeholders, including unions to contribute to improving the horticulture ecosystem in Australia. They aim to drive longer term positive impacts for worker wellbeing.

Website: colesgroup.com.au/home/

As well as its ongoing due diligence and monitoring through their ethical sourcing program, Coles continues to invest in capacity building for the horticulture sector through three key initiatives:

• Worker education events: Reaching out to workers through multiple channels, including through worker education outreach events. Partnering with unions for these events, they provide workers with information on their rights and mechanisms to confidentially raise concerns. In the past 12 months, Coles hosted 2 worker education events with over 150 participants, including farm workers, union and community representatives. Outreach events took place in fresh produce regions including Mareeba, Queensland and Coffs Harbour, New South Wales.

• White paper research into accommodation standards: Horticulture workers in regional Australia often have limited choices where they live, due to availability and lack of minimum legislative standards. Coles undertook research in 2022 in collaboration with the Ethical Retail Supply Chain Accord (ERSCA) to address limited data in the accommodation area. The research identified a number of factors, including a lack of national regulation in accommodation standards, contributing to substandard accommodation conditions which negatively impact horticulture workers' wellbeing, and results in disproportionately high rental costs impacting workers living wage. Recommendations include: horticulture industry stakeholder collaboration to create a single enforceable standard for accommodation, including both conditions and costs, as well as additional support via community programs to strengthen worker voice and advocacy.

• Coles funded Third-Party Audit Program (3PAP): Coles committed over AUD$3.4 million for 3PAP since 2021. This involved commissioning two audit firms to conduct up to

600 funded social compliance audits almost exclusively in Australia’s horticulture supply chain, where there are increasing reports on human rights risks. 3PAP increased Coles' understanding of industry risks. Coles anticipate these worker-centric audits will reach over 25,500 workers across Australia. Several suppliers from the 304 sites (audited to date) have provided positive feedback. Another 211 audits are planned before the end of fiscal year.

Coles has an ongoing responsibility and commitment to sustainable and measurable improvements for workers in Australia’s horticulture industry, enabling all to source fresh produce in Australia ethically. They will continue to invest in the above

initiatives: demonstrating to workers their voices are heard and followup action is taken, developing a standard for better provision of worker accommodation and through 3PAP, working with their horticulture suppliers to improve on working conditions and emphasising the importance of worker wellbeing in Australia’s horticulture industry.

Coles' progress on these areas highlights the importance of fair treatment for often unseen workers in Australia’s horticulture industry. Coles know that there is more they can do to drive positive human rights outcomes, but feel confident that their activities have set a solid foundation for continued growth.

Coles progress on these areas highlights the importance of fair treatment for often unseen workers in Australia's horticulture industry.

Greenham Beef Sustainability Standard

Greenham introduce Beef Sustainability Standard to deliver planetpositive beef to global customers

Putting consumer confidence at the centre of the plate with Certified Regenerative® Beef by Greenham

Delivering premium beef to your plate and ecological benefits to the farm gate, Greenham’s newly launched Beef Sustainability Standard (GBSS) was developed in close partnership with both customers and producers.

Website: lionco.com/

HW Greenham & Sons, in collaboration with Pinion Advisory

The optional on-farm standard is comprised of practical indicators designed to enhance and showcase sustainable practices across Greenham’s supply chain, addressing growing market demand for robust and transparent environmental credentials.

The Victorian and Tasmanian beef processor’s Supply Chain Manager, Jess Loughland, said the third-party audited standard was the first in a commercial supply chain to apply the Australian Beef Sustainability Framework’s (ABSF) themes of animal welfare, environmental stewardship, economic resilience, and people and the community.

“When we sat down and said what are we trying to achieve here, our goal was simple: to develop a program that gives consumers confidence that the beef they’re purchasing and feeding their families has been produced in a way that prioritizes animal welfare, protects the land and strengthens surrounding communities for future generations,” she said.

With endorsement from leading Australian agriculture and environmental consultants, Integrity Ag & Environment, the third-party audited standard is structured in three tiers.

Tier one prioritizes education and planning and sets a baseline for sustainable management, while tiers two and three focus on continuous improvement, striving for optimum ecological health and carbon neutrality.

“We wanted to provide producers with an accessible starting point with clear opportunities for improvement and a focal point on the horizon to work towards.”

Before going to market, the GBSS was piloted in 2022 with 21 cattle producers from a range of production systems across southern Australia to ensure its on-farm practicality and ability to deliver at the retail shelf.

Piloting the standard was crucial to understanding what this program we’d spent years developing looked like in practice and also in identifying the unique challenges posed across different production systems and business types,” Jess said.

With endorsement from Americanbased animal welfare body Certified Humane®, beef produced from accredited Tier two properties is eligible for an on-pack Certified Regenerative® label, further bolstering consumer confidence in our suite of premium beef brands, including Cape Grim and Bass Strait Beef.

A long-term focus on sustainability

A focus on sustainability is not new for Greenham. At Greenham’s Smithton plant in Tasmania, a biofuel boiler supplies 70% of the plant’s energy needs, and in 2021, the plant transitioned from coal to a local renewable woodchip fuel source, reducing the facility’s stack emissions by more than 75% and dropping carbon emissions to almost zero.

While at the newly redeveloped Greenham Tongala processing facility in Victoria, the four pillars of sustainability, animal welfare, safety, and zero waste carcass utilization have guided design:

• energy & water efficiency: a new solar power system will provide 70% of the plant’s energy needs, and upgraded water recycling capabilities will reduce water consumption by 20%30%. On-site settling ponds have reduced emissions by 15,000t/ year, which is the equivalent of taking 3,000 cars off the road a year.

• animal welfare: new yards and processing equipment are designed to reduce noise and aid low-stress handling.

• safety: new lairage facilities and a circular pusher yard are designed to separate people and animals and new automated loading technology will reduce the risk of injury.

• carcass utilization: to reduce waste and maximize returns for the whole supply chain, every part of the animal has been considered and will have its own customized area for packing to increase efficiency and product quality.

First Nations Leading a Sustainable Future Award

The Keeping Place

The Keeping Place is an Indigenous-owned and led, for purpose organisation that is committed to supporting Traditional Owners and their representatives to protect cultural knowledge, manage Country, and regain sovereignty of their data through a culturally considerate software platform.

The Keeping Place is an Indigenousowned and led, for purpose organisation that is committed to supporting Traditional Owners and their representatives to protect cultural knowledge, manage Country, and regain sovereignty of their data through a culturally considerate software platform.

Website: thekeepingplace.com/

We believe in empowering First Nations people, communities and organisations through our GIS based cultural heritage and land management system to realise new social and economic opportunities.

The Keeping Place provides an enterprise grade software solution that enables Traditional Owners to access, store, and manage land and cultural heritage information all in one place. Managing cultural sites in areas where they coincide with mining, exploration, and agriculture activities is a challenging task that requires a sophisticated information management system.

The Keeping Place is designed for this purpose. It monitors multiple tenements, archaeological and ethnographic sites, heritage surveys, agreement obligations and commitments, previous and future mining and

The only comprehensive system of its kind in Australian (if not the world).

exploration impacts, and numerous land-based activities.

The Keeping Place is the only comprehensive system of its kind in Australia (if not the world) that was designed by Traditional Owners, built for Traditional Owners and owned by Traditional Owners. The Keeping Place is a solution to protect cultural heritage and manage Country. The principles of Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Cultural Protocol Governance are part of our DNA.

A software solution that enables Traditional Owners to access, store and manage land and cultural heritage information all in one place.

Social Reinvestment WA

Aboriginal-led Coalition Campaigns for Youth Justice Reform

Social Reinvestment WA (SRWA) is an Aboriginal-led coalition of 32 nonprofit organisations, united in our goal of ending the overrepresentation of Aboriginal people in Western Australia’s justice system.

Website: socialreinvestmentwa.org.au/

In collaboration with Wungening Aboriginal Corporation

SRWA supports community-led justice reinvestment approaches, seeks to influence policy and legislation to end discriminatory practice, and works to create healthy families and safe communities that keep people out of the justice system. In all things, we prioritise the voices, knowledge, and fundamental right to selfdetermination of Aboriginal people and communities.

We achieve our goals through a combination of advocacy to decisionmakers, policy development, public campaigning, storytelling and amplifying the voices of lived experience, and supporting local communities’ initiatives.

SRWA was formed in 2014 in response to the WA Government’s decision to send a number of young people from Banksia Hill Detention Centre to Hakea Prison, an adult facility, recognising a need for Aboriginal voices to address the underlying causes of crime and promote healthy families and safe communities.

Our coalition is led by Noongar cochairs, Daniel Morrison and Glenda Kickett. As a Coalition, our members actively contribute to the work of the organisation and share power to achieve collective outcomes for the wider community. Our members comprise Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations, community service providers, legal bodies, researchers, and people with lived experience.

In partnership with Change The Record, SRWA leads the RaiseTheAge campaign in Western Australia seeking to raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility from 10 to at least 14 years of age.

Social Reinvestment WA supports community-led justice reinvestment approaches, seeks to influence policy and legislation to end discriminatory practice, and works to create healthy families and safe communities that keep people out of the justice system.

Future Places Award

North Western Program Alliance

The Bell to Moreland Level Removal Crossing Project: from divisive rail corridor to vibrant, sustainable urban precinct.

The Bell to Moreland Level Crossing Removal Project (the Project) involved the removal of four dangerous level crossings, the construction of a 2.5 km elevated rail structure, and two new train stations, the restoration of two heritage stations, and the delivery of new open spaces.

Situated in a narrow, highly constrained corridor in Melbourne's busy inner north, the Project presented one of the most complex and challenging level crossing removal projects undertaken at that time.

Website: infrastructurepipeline.org/project/north-west-program-alliance

Every element of this new community precinct was designed to be resilient to climate change and sustainable from its inception. Responsible procurement ensured sustainable materials were used whenever possible, and strategic landscape design created spaces that are drought-resistant and suitable for local biodiversity.

The removal of four level crossings and construction of two new train stations could have simply resulted in the delivery of an infrastructure project built to standard and compliant with specifications. However, the North Western Program Alliance (NWPA) used the Project as an opportunity to deliver more - an innovative and sustainable community precinct.

Every element of this new community precinct was designed to be resilient to climate change and sustainable from its inception. Responsible procurement ensured sustainable materials were used whenever possible, and strategic landscape design created spaces that are drought-resistant and suitable for local biodiversity.

From playgrounds, dog parks, and barbecue areas to sports facilities, public artwork, indoor community spaces, bike and pedestrian paths, and vibrant green spaces, sustainability and community benefit remained top of mind. The sheer volume of beneficial outcomes delivered in this 2.5 kilometers of public space under the new elevated rail viaduct is a defining feature and unique aspect of the Project's design and delivery.

In terms of innovation and collaboration, NWPA partnered with the University of Melbourne to trial the new Woody Meadows landscaping approach, which increases climate resilience, community engagement, and biodiversity. The Project was also among the first to include Indigenous co-design, which is now being applied across the wider level crossing removal program. In

recognition of these achievements and more, the Project was awarded a rare 10/10 for innovation by the Infrastructure Sustainability Council.

NWPA also used the power of an ongoing five-year program of works, holistically embedding sustainability initiatives and processes based on lessons learned from previous projects. This industry leadership, as demonstrated through early planning, partnership, and collaboration, has culminated in an infrastructure project that transcends its functional scope. The Project has delivered a destination co-designed by the community, who will benefit from its sustainable urban design for generations to come.

The sustainability outcomes and credentials of this Project are groundbreaking and have been recognized as such, being awarded the highest-ever sustainability AsBuilt rating by the Infrastructure Sustainability Council and the firstever 6-star Green Star As-Built rated train station by the Green Building Council of Australia.

CarbonLite

CarbonLite, creating a future where all homes on earth are resilient, healthy, accessible, and net positive

CarbonLite is a profit for purpose company, established in 2013 in Melbourne with an ambitious vision to transform the housing sector to become ecologically sustainable.

Website: carbonlite.com.au/

In collaboration with Thrive Places

Our mission is about transformation, so we need to be the best we can be and educate and demonstrate to others how as a sector we can contribute to a sustainable world

CarbonLite has developed business products and services that will drive the transformation of the housing sector to become a net positive contributor to global ecological sustainability. The Housing Sector is our specific area of focus.

The CarbonLite journey is a story of evolution; a business founded in carpentry, one of the oldest professions, adapting to create housing solutions for our carbon constrained economies and climate changed future.

We precision fabricate homes and building components certified to the Passive House Standard (Passivhaus). Our homes are manufactured in panels (flat-packed) and transported to site where the thermal envelope can be assembled in two days. Typical trades then follow through to fitout our homes.

RubikHaus is a standardised Passive House, built at volume to achieve economies of scale and create a new benchmark for homes. Ultimately, we want all Australians to live in a comfortable, healthy and sustainable

home that can provide a solution to our climate crisis.

PanelLite is a product, with an associated process designed to collaborate with volume home builders and help them achieve ultraenergy efficient homes too. Together we can transform typical homes into ultra-efficient homes.

We believe that if a business is to be genuinely ecologically sustainable the business strategy should be premised on the basis that it will strive for ecological sustainability, that it will play a part in the transformation of global economies.

We take a balanced scorecard approach to ecological sustainability using the UN Sustainable Development Goals. CarbonLite intends to contribute to the progress of all goals eventually, and for now is progressing against 6 of them as

a means to measure, monitor and drive our progress towards ecological sustainability.

The Housing sector is ripe for innovation as there is increasing demand for sustainable homes. The current shape of the housing industry can not meet current demand and certainly can not deliver the sustainable homes that we need.

CarbonLite has developed PanelLite as a Passive House Certified product to enable all volume home builders to increase the quality and performance of their housing products.

Our mission is about transformation, so we need to be the best we can be and educate and demonstrate to others how as a sector we can contribute to a sustainable world.

CarbonLite is using business as a tool to drive change, to accelerate the development of an ecological sustainable economy.

City of Melbourne

The City of Melbourne’s Grey to Green program has transformed over 80 hectares of underutilised hardscape into high quality, pedestrianorientated streetscapes and open space.

The City of Melbourne’s Grey to Green program is a long-term strategic approach that incrementally transforms-underutilised hardscapes into public spaces, to ensure the city is resilient, inclusive and meets the changing needs of its inhabitants.

Website: melbourne.vic.gov.au/

The program proactively identifies underutilised Council-owned or managed land such as surplus road space, car parks and maintenance depots, and transforms them into high quality public space that prioritises people, flora and fauna A key driver of the conversions is to combat climate change and the heat island effect through increasing canopy cover, surface

permeability and biodiversity. Since establishment in 1985, Grey to Green has converted more than 80 hectares of underutilised ‘grey’ public space into safe, accessible, diverse ‘green’ space for all to enjoy.

A long term strategic approach that incrementally transforms underutilised hardscapes into public spaces, to ensure the city is resilient, inclusive and meets the changing needs of its inhabitants.

Sydney Metro

Sydney Metro driving sustainability innovation in railway infrastructure, achieving world leading design ratings.

Sydney Metro is revolutionising how Australia’s biggest city travels, connecting Sydney’s north west, west, south west and greater west to fast, reliable turn-up-and-go metro services with fully accessible stations.

In anticipation of the pipeline of investment in future transport projects, and the opportunity to drive long-term environmental and social improvements, Sydney Metro has worked with the Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA) to create a Green Star – Custom (Sydney Metro) rating tool which can be applied to railway stations. The aim was to embed sustainability principles across our projects, supporting transparency, accountability, industry best practice, knowledge sharing and rating tool uptake across the public transport and infrastructure sector.

Website: sydneymetro.info/

All seven new Sydney Metro City & Southwest underground stations have achieved a 6 Star “World Leadership” Green Star – Custom (Sydney Metro) Design Review rating in recognition of their sustainability performance.

The Green Star rating tool complements the Sydney Metro City & Southwest Sustainability Strategy and associated contractual targets and aligns with United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs).

There has been a strong focus on innovation (UN SDG 9) to maximise and recognise performance through the Green Star process. Innovation points have been awarded for initiatives pertaining to climate resilience, sustainable site offices,

procurement practices, workforce and community benefit. With a focus on Sydney Metro customers, the stations have incorporated best practice wayfinding, access to active transport, and secure cycle parking (UN SDG 11). Public art and creative landscaping enhance public spaces throughout the station. Customer areas are designed for thermal and acoustic comfort, and incorporate clear communication systems, high fresh air rates and quality lighting.

Responsible consumption and production are a strong driver throughout construction and operation (UN SDG 12). Strict responsible sourcing requirements are in place for construction materials, life cycle assessments have informed

project designs and embodied carbon has been minimised by substituting 48 per cent of cement in concrete with fly ash or slag. High construction and demolition waste recycling rates (97 per cent) have been achieved, with 68,740 tonnes diverted from landfill to date. All suitable spoil removed from each site has been beneficially reused.

Design models (using approved Green Star methodologies) predict that the stations will achieve an average 35 per cent reduction in operational potable water use and 31 per cent reduction in operational energy use. Barangaroo Station is predicted to achieve a 90 per cent reduction in operational water use by harnessing seawater cooling.

Climate change risk assessments have been carried out for all stations (UN SDG 13) and resilience measures such as increased drainage and cooling capacity built into the design. All of the electricity used during operations will be offset.

This initiative has created and strengthened partnerships towards meeting sustainability goals (UN SDG 17). The sustainability lessons learned and initiatives have been integrated into new Sydney Metro projects, further raising the bar in sustainability performance. Given the 120-year design life of the stations, this initiative has a significant long-term legacy towards delivering sustainable and city-shaping public transport infrastructure.

Given the 120-year design life of the stations, this initiative has a significant long-term legacy towards delivering sustainable and city-shaping public transport infrastructure

Warrnambool Community Garden

Warrnambool Community Garden members have converted a longabandoned quarry into a new, safe and inclusive green and public space: a beautiful, accessible, natural amphitheatre able to stage public gatherings and events.

Warrnambool Community Garden (WCG) members have converted a longabandoned quarry into a beautiful, safe, grassed amphitheatre and a waterresource educational display.

In the roughly triangular quarry two steep walls are being covered in native plantings while the third is exposed sandstone showing the geology of the land our city is sited on. The amphitheatre provides a 1600m2 of grassed area for public open space and community events. It will have all-abilities access and has underground power infrastructure suitable for a large concert. The native plantings are mostly local species, designed to provide food and shelter for a large range of things from fungi to frogs, lizards, birds and small mammals.

Website: wcg3280.org.au/

The space is aesthetically pleasing, complementing the beautiful growing spaces that cover much of the Community Garden’s site. The quarry closed about 60 years ago and was a dangerous, inaccessible, weed and vermin infested scar on the land. It occupies about one-third of our 6 acre site. WCG moved on to the site in 2007 and spent about 9 years developing the rest of the gardens from what was a bare paddock. In 2016-17 WCG developed concept plans for the quarry through broad consultation and professional guidance. At that time this was envisaged as a 10-20 year project. “Pick My Project” grants in 2018 provided the finances to complete a large amount of the work much faster. Work started mid-2019.

Construction of the amphitheatre was spasmodic in 2019-2020 as permit and permission processes and infrastructure upgrades were worked through, then progressed faster in 2020-2021 despite COVID. Community members completed native plantings in the sloped quarry walls in 2020 and 2021 between lockdowns. Underground infrastructure and final amphitheatre shaping was completed, and in late 2021 lawn started growing in the amphitheatre. More native plants are being propagated for the lower quarry walls.

A major challenge was catering for emergency water releases (very rare but possible) from Wannon Water’s treatment tanks on the western boundary and stormwater abatement. These added significant subsurface infrastructure to the project. Another challenge was finding that 3-phase power was required for major concerts, requiring a power upgrade to the whole site. COVID was a challenge for everyone in 2020-2021.

From early concept development in 2016 through to detailed design and then construction (not always a linear process) WCG have worked with and been supported by a large number of government agencies, businesses and individuals. WCG are particularly indebted to project coordinator Bruce Campbell, Fiona

Golding (Live Architecture), Geoff Rollinson (WCG Quarry Steering Committee Chair) and Dave Mitchell (WCG Site Manager). All have given very generously of their time. All are WCG members.

Quarry rehabilitations have happened before in other places. As WCG conceived this project inspiration came from many of these, even though some were much larger. WCG hope that this project can inspire other groups to start dreaming of what might be possible given time and perseverance.

WCG hope that this project can inspire other groups to start dreaming of what might be possible given time and perseverance

77 Health & Wellbeing Award

Fire Rescue Victoria

Fire Rescue Victoria (FRV) has developed best practice mitigation initiatives to reduce the prevalence of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in the firefighting industry, the community and the environment across Victoria, Australia and around the world.

Fire Rescue Victoria (FRV) has developed best practice mitigation initiatives to reduce the prevalence of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in the firefighting industry, the community and the environment across Victoria, Australia and around the world.

PFAS are a group of synthetic chemicals present in the firefighting industry, specifically in firefighting foams, but also in the wider community and many household items such as cookware, carpets and even clothing. Dubbed as toxic ‘forever chemicals’, PFAS have been linked to devastating health issues and diseases.

Website: herocondoms.com

There is a lack of scientific research to determine what levels of PFAS in the human body are safe, and prior to the world-first clinical trial led by FRV, there was no known way to reduce PFAS levels in the body.

With no guidelines or examples of PFAS-free models globally, our PFAS elimination efforts required FRV to reimagine what our industry, and the world, would look like without this group of chemicals.

At every stage, FRV faced numerous challenges and overcame them. With resilience, tenacity, and the persistence of our committed people, FRV have persevered to advocate for a future free from PFAS.

When presenting our case to the 2019 Stockholm Convention, FRV faced resistance from China, Russia, Argentina, and Iran who claimed that it would not be possible to eradicate the use of PFAS-containing firefighting foams as there was no alternative solution. FRV also faced resistance from chemical companies with a vested interest in supplying PFAS containing foams. However, through extensive testing, FRV has found that there are viable fluorinefree firefighting foams that can be used as effective and safer alternative options.

During the process of decontaminating all fire appliances and equipment, FRV also faced logistical challenges. FRV worked with the Environment Protection Authority Victoria (EPA) to ensure that PFAS wastewater used in decontamination was disposed of safely, posing no

further risk to the community and environment. FRV also worked closely with WorkSafe Victoria to ensure that all staff involved in the decontamination process were not exposed to PFAS.

The lack of research into solutions to reduce high levels of PFAS in the human body posed a major challenge when it came to reducing firefighter health impacts. The clinical trial initiated and led by the former MFB, in collaboration with Macquarie University, paved the way for ground-breaking research, which has determined that PFAS levels can be reduced through blood or plasma donations.

FRV are currently seeing the benefits of collaborating with other agencies in our industry, with changes being made in South Australia, Tasmania, Australian Capital Territory and amongst the Canadian Defence Force. FRV will continue to call on the Federal Government to issue

a national ban on PFAS-containing firefighting foams and showcase the viable alternatives that FRV has identified.

On the international stage, FRV continues to raise awareness about our mitigation initiatives and to advocate for PFAS minimisation, having presented our findings at the 2022 United Nations Stockholm Convention, and presenting to the International Firefighter Cancer Symposium in Miami, Florida, in February 2023.

Fire Rescue Victoria (FRV) has developed best practice mitigation initiatives to reduce the prevalence of perand polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in the firefighting industry, the community and the environment across Victoria, Australia and around the world.

Alex Makes Meals

Alex Makes Meals is a food-based charity who provide free meals and connections for vulnerable people in the community. Through food relief and care, they help to provide a positive difference to the lives of people in Melbourne.

Alex Makes Meals is a Melbourne based social enterprise that has been helping those in need in our community since 2020.

Alex Makes Meals operates by providing free food relief to 27 charity partners which allows some of them to provide specialist services to the meal recipient to give them pathways out of their situation. Through partner charities Alex Makes Meals offer high quality and nutritious meals to the elderly, the homeless, disadvantaged youths, domestic violence survivors, the differently abled, refugees and individuals/ families facing poverty.

Website: alexmakesmeals.com/

Since its inception, Alex Makes Meals has provided close to 400,000 meals through key partner charities and continues to make a difference in people’s lives.

Food relief is more than just a meal, it is a gateway into a conversation and a way of providing love to the most disconnected. Alex Makes Meals aim to deliver over 3,000 meals a week. This translates into 3,000 chances for them to help improve our community and help those struggling. It will also be an opportunity to start that conversation with meal recipients and start them on the path out of their circumstances.

Alex Makes Meals is completely operated by volunteers with a volunteer work force of 60 to 80 people. It is fully funded by the generosity of its donors, social enterprise catering and proudly supported by Toyota Australia,

Alex Makes Meals operates by providing free food relief to 27 charity partners which allows some of them to provide specialist services to the meal recipient to give them pathways out of their situation.

through the use of their commercial kitchens and kitchen staff in Melbourne, and Darebin Council who also offer use of space.

Alex Makes Meals is not just giving meals, it's giving time. Two hours a day people don't have to spend worrying about their dinner. Time they can use to heal, love, and help themselves.

Assembled Threads Pty Ltd

Assembled Threads, transforming lives through training and employment in local manufacturing.

The Assembled Threads concept was simple; match garment industry professionals with textile artisans in the CALD community, embed industry skills training and transition the team to a commercial standard in a short space of time to get the team to a commercial standard for producing industry ready garments.

Our goal at Assembled Threads was the opportunity to create meaningful and purposeful employment and engagement for all our community members, not hindered by lack of language, lack of education, or prejudiced because of age or religion.

Website: assembledthreads.com/

The experience of Covid, need for sovereignty in our supply chains plus the Victorian Governments Social Procurement Strategy supporting locally made goods has created a demand for local manufacturing. The local industry is now suffering a crisis - a lack of skilled garment workers, due to the fact we have historically moved our garment production to Asia over the last few decades.

Newly arrived and longer term unemployed members of the CALD communities currently face barriers to employment through lack of language or recognised education, or formal work experience in Australia. However, sewing is a highly visual medium, so we can easily train through demonstration and visual references. The hub core hours were also set at 9.30 - 2.30, with a minimum of 3 days a week to encourage flexibility for parents with children, or carers for loved ones.

Using a social enterprise model, candidates could “earn as they learn,” producing garments suitable for large scale uniform procurement channels whilst at the same time completing an Apprenticeship in Clothing and Textile Production - a Victorian first.

In the 24 months Assembled Threads has been in operation, MSTSS00015 Industrial Sewing Skills Set training has been delivered to 31 participants at our 3 pilot programs.

Eight apprentices have completed an apprenticeship in MST30119 Certificate 3 in Clothing and Textile Production - an astounding 80% completion rate, compared to national data which reveals an industry wide 52% completion rate, as confirmed by MEGT - Our Apprenticeship Network Provider. One apprentice has graduated with MST40219 Certificate 4 in Clothing Production, and over 11000 structured and on the job training hours have been delivered.

At Assembled Threads, we also believe it is important to show leadership on producing climate positive products through responsible stewardship for end of life, which is critical in the need for responsible consumption and production of garments. We have produced a range of Hi-Vis vests, completely sourced from recycled material components. Our Assembled Threads Hi-Vis Vests have been audited by The Carbon Reduction Institute Australia - showing they have 32% less emissions than regular virgin fossil fuel Hi-Vis vests. In the production of 1500 vests in the last 12 months, we have reduced the carbon footprint of this product type by 472500 (KgC02) emissions. Through utilising recycled textiles, we have saved 648kg of waste going to landfill.

At Assembled Threads, we believe it is time to create a legacy of a better planet than we have allowed it to become over the last 50 or more years.

Our goal at Assembled Threads was the opportunity to create meaningful and purposeful employment and engagement for all our community members, not hindered by lack of language, lack of education, or prejudiced because of age or religion.

Large Business Sustainable Transformation Award

Woolworths Group

At Woolworths Group we know the actions we take today, together with our customers, team and partners, can create a better tomorrow and have a positive impact on generations to come.

Woolworths Group has more than 190,000 team members who serve over 22 million customers weekly across more than 1,400 stores, with the support of over 18,000 direct suppliers.

As the largest retailer across Australia and New Zealand, our reach creates opportunities to make meaningful contributions to the communities we operate in and lead important sustainability conversations that can facilitate change.

Website: woolworthsgroup.com.au/

Our sustainability program has brought teams across Woolworths Group together to collectively drive short and long-term action on our ambition across the pillars of People, Planet, and Product.

Our sustainability program has brought teams right across Woolworths Group together to collectively drive short and long-term action on our ambitions across the pillars of People, Planet, and Product.

We care for the people who help us serve Australians and New Zealanders every day - those who work in our stores and operations and those who contribute to our extended value chain. We aim to create social equity and opportunity through inclusion and respect. This helps us support the broad agriculture, manufacturing, and retail communities that work in partnership with us to create food systems that are better for the people in them, and the planet.

We work to repair and protect our planet by minimizing our use of finite natural resources while facilitating regeneration through renewables and sustainable farming practices. This approach not only aims to limit climate change but also to improve the long-term resilience of our communities and the food systems they rely on.

Our products are a tangible way we, together with our customers, can drive impact. We are embracing circular thinking to manage all waste as a resource and aim to provide access to healthier products that are also responsibly and sustainably

sourced and packaged. We want the products our customers buy to be better for the planet, better for our communities, and better for them.

For us, sustainability means constantly improving how we work, and since launching our Sustainability Plan 2025, we have created a Groupwide program focused on building momentum towards our sustainability goals.

This enables us to embrace new technologies, innovations, and new ways of thinking to help us, together with our partners, find the best solutions to the sustainability challenges and opportunities we face, such as our work with CSIRO/ FutureFeed and Samsara, while providing our supply chain as a testing ground to help these businesses scale.

In March, we donated our 50 millionth meal via our partners, OzHarvest, to help Australians in need of food relief, and in July, all of our Woolworths Group’s operations in South Australia are now powered by 100 percent renewable electricity. Since F18, we’ve removed more than 9,000 tonnes of plastic packaging from circulation compared to our baseline year. We are proud of our progress so far, but we know there is much more to do.

Sustainability is one of the deepest transformational programs that has taken place at Woolworths Group over recent years, and that’s incredibly exciting – we know the actions we take today, together with our customers, team, and partners, can create a better tomorrow and have a positive impact on generations to come.

Australia Post

Australia Post prioritises sustainability, underpinned by the UN Sustainable Development Goals and aiming for Net Zero by 2050 through its 2025 Sustainability Roadmap.

Australia Post was one of the first organisations nationally to use the UN Sustainable Development Goals as a foundation to its approach to sustainability.

A first for Australia Post, the 2020-2022 Corporate Responsibility Plan’s bold public-facing commitments, underscored by the SDGs, drove internal understanding, external positioning and accountability. It allowed us to promote an enterprise approach to sustainability, meet changing stakeholder and customer expectations and drive internal engagement.

Website: auspost.com.au/

Delivering on the Plan’s commitments demonstrated the value of sustainability, which now has greater visibility, ownership and more sophisticated expectations at both management and Board level. Key achievements of the Plan include that Australia Post;

• Operated Australia's largest electric delivery vehicle fleet of 4,635, representing 30% of our entire fleet

• Achieved gender pay parity for six consecutive years

• Won three consecutive international awards for our integrated Annual Report

• Achieved 3% Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander representation across our workforce

• Spent over $76.7m with social enterprises and Indigenous owned businesses, exceeding our target by over 18%

We continued to monitor our performance against the national SDG indicators during the life of the Plan which helped focus organisational attention and redirect investment, including renewable energy and electric vehicles. The legacy of the Plan that work towards SDG targets include;

Underpinned by the Sustainable Development Goals, sustainability is today embedded in Australia Post’s enterprise strategy, senior leader metrics, culture and employee value proposition.

Sustainability has greater visibility, ownership and more sophisticated expectations at both management and Board level.

Our approach to sustainability has informed that of other Government Business Enterprises. Fundamental elements such as setting sciencebased emissions targets and aligning commitments to relevant SDGs, has positively influenced the sustainability practices and positive impact of other organisations.

The SDGs were incorporated in thought-leadership white papers and initiatives to help customers and stakeholders support the goals. A range of initiatives support small-tomedium enterprises to improve their sustainability credentials.

Supporting the government’s commitment to target Net Zero emissions by 2050 puts Australia Post on a journey of decarbonization which is presently unparalleled by other GBEs.

The SDGs continue to form the backbone of our approach to corporate responsibility. Integrating our Post26 enterprise strategy and extending from our 2020–2022 achievements, the 2025 Sustainability Roadmap outlines 2025 emissions targets – validated by the Science Based Target Initiative – that will put Australia Post on the road to Net Zero emissions by 2050.

Underpinned by the Sustainable Development Goals, sustainability is today embedded in Australia Post's enterprise strategy, senior leader metrics, culture and employee value proposition

Bunzl

Bunzl Asia Pacific (Bunzl) has established and implemented meaningful programs and partnerships to create an inclusive leadership system, and support women, veterans, and First Nations communities in successful employment and business outcomes.

Bunzl Asia Pacific (Bunzl) is a B2B distribution company comprised of 11 smaller business entities supplying a range of sectors including healthcare, retail, manufacturing, and mining.

In 2019, Bunzl’s Executive recognised the opportunity to make a difference by embracing sustainability and leveraging their unique position in the center of the value chain. Being in the center enables Bunzl to work with both suppliers and customers to ensure the supply of products and services that deliver better environmental and social outcomes.

Website: bunzlasiapacific.com/

In 2020, Bunzl established their first sustainability focused plan with the initial goal of supporting Bunzl sales team and customers to navigate the complex product and packaging sustainability space. This rapidly grew in scope following the completion of a materiality assessment, and the development of their first Asia-Pacific Sustainability Strategy endorsed by the Executive.

The Strategy was built around four pillars: Supply Chain; Products & Customers; People & Community; and Environment & Climate Change and focused on goals and targets where they can have the most impact. Their unique approach focused on empowering others and bringing them along for their sustainability journey. Bunzl have engaged with all employee’s differing levels of knowledge and taught them the relevance of sustainability to their role in forums, training, and programs. Bunzl provide their employees with the tools to enact sustainability in their roles and support initiatives they were passionate about.

In the three years since beginning their sustainability journey Bunzl have had significant impact:

• Commenced an extensive sustainable packaging industry awareness raising program to satisfy single-use plastic bans and proactively improve their customers’ knowledge and use of sustainable packaging. This program won the 2022 APCO Our Packaging Future Award –Industry Engagement.

• Bunzl set a Net Zero (scope 1 & 2) target and Carbon Roadmap which they commenced immediately by improving efficiency of lighting, HVAC and installing on-site solar at three facilities, with three more scheduled for 2023.

• Committed to reduce on-site waste to landfill by half by rolling out an extensive waste improvement program including colour coded bins, improved

signage, training as well as increased access to various recycling streams.

• Embarking on an extensive women in leadership program which aims to create an equitable and inclusive work environment. This has been successful with over 47% of women in leadership roles.

• Bunzl support their customers and suppliers alike to eliminate modern slavery by conducting in-country audits using their own responsible sourcing team. This has uncovered situations that do not meet their standards and so have worked with their suppliers to help them improve.

• Improving product packaging sustainability and developing sustainable products and packaging ranges such as those renewable, compostable, recycled content and recyclable product ranges and improving packaging sustainability progressively across all SKUs.

• Conducting extensive sustainability training and communications for employees including establishing a Sustainability Ambassador program.

• Bunzl established a reconciliation program for First Nations people sourcing from and suppling several First Nations-owned businesses products; as well as supporting the schooling and employment of young First Nations’ men.

Bunzl's momentum is only emboldening them to work harder and expand their sustainability program further. They continue to work with their customers and suppliers to improve business sustainability.

Their unique approach focussed on empowering others and bringing them along for their sustainability journey. Bunzl have engaged with all employee's and taught them the relevance of sustainability to their role. Bunzl provide their employees with the tools to enact sustainability in their roles and support initiatives they were passionate about

Port Authority of New South Wales

Embedding sustainability at Port Authority of NSW.

Two years ago, Port Authority of NSW commenced a journey towards sustainability that would see green shoots appear across the business, driving real change. It was a transformative journey driven by the passion of the small State-Owned Corporation’s staff, Executive and Board, under the leadership of a new CEO.

Port Authority has taken significant steps towards sustainability, something that many Australian ports have been hesitant to undertake. As the operator of all six commercial ports across NSW, Port Authority is uniquely positioned to drive positive change across the maritime and shipping sector in NSW and beyond its own responsibilities.

Website: portauthoritynsw.com.au/

We have committed and announced a world-first 100% renewable electricity shore powered precinct and a first shore powered cruise terminal in the southern hemisphere. The commitment is a key element of an overall shift to acknowledge, address and reduce Scope 3 emissions from the shipping and ports sector in Australia.

Approximately 20% of Port Authority's staff were involved in co-creating the Sustainability Plan, which used the UN Sustainable Development Goals as a guide to ensure it aligned with national and international goals and contributed to global sustainability efforts. This process was incorporated into the development of a new Strategic Plan for the business.

Over 40 potential social, environmental, economic, and organizational initiatives were prioritized to create a sustainability plan with four key focus areas, 13 opportunity areas, and a wide variety of potential initiatives. Staff at all levels have adopted and implemented sustainability into their way of working, resulting in a new approach to operating.

In a short period, Port Authority has managed to embed sustainability into the values, vision, strategic plans, and priorities of the business.

Port Authority’s actions have already allowed us to influence, leverage our leadership, partner and collaborate with key stakeholders to drive sustainability initiatives and outcomes beyond our own boundaries, creating greater positive sustainable change.

We have committed and announced a world-first 100% renewable electricity shore powered precinct and a first shore powered cruise terminal in the southern hemisphere. The commitment is a key element of an overall shift to acknowledge, address and reduce Scope 3 emissions from the shipping and ports sector in Australia.

Four significant initiatives have been identified and progressed:

• Navigating to Net Zero by developing a carbon emissions reduction strategy and introducing initiatives that help our own business reach its targets, but also leading industry and supporting others to achieve the same.

• Implementing industry leading noise management practices for Bays Port, ensuring we respect and protect the amenity of the communities in which we operate.

• Building sustainability into all procurement by embedding considerations for environmental sustainability, fair trade, transparent and ethical supply chains and respect for human rights when obtaining goods and services.

• Increasing Diversity and Inclusion across our workplace. representation across our workforce

Both our noise management and energy transition commitments are leading the way on how to be better neighbours and integrate with our port communities. We are participating in key international and national forums that bring together similar minded stakeholders to share learnings and collaborate.

Two years into the journey, things are just getting interesting. Port Authority is ready to take on more challenges as they continue to collaborate, learn, and adapt while remaining bold in our ambitions and goals.

Transurban

Strengthening communities by redefining sustainable transport through a business-led approach to the SDGs.

Transurban is one of the world’s leading toll-road operators. The company has successfully created transformational business, customer and community outcomes through its businesswide integration and alignment with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Transurban is delivering strong, ongoing performance across 29 measurable SDG targets.

Transurban’s strategic SDG alignment has created a sound framework for focusing, measuring, and delivering stakeholder-aligned social and environmental value. Transurban’s business strategy is: By understanding what matters to our stakeholders, we create road transport solutions that make us a partner of choice.

Website: transurban.com/

Aligning its activities with the SDGs is supporting business strategy delivery by:

• Driving environmentally and socially responsible stakeholderaligned decisions

• Establishing credible and relevant methodology to measure, report on, and drive performance

• Enhancing social licence with key stakeholder groups

• Strengthening stakeholder alignment, partnerships, and outcomes via shared global ambitions.

As an ASX leader, Transurban’s SDG-focused sustainability strategy implemented in 2019 comprises four goals, reflecting nine SDGs material to Transurban operations and stakeholders.

To ensure accurate and effective business-level alignment, Transurban analysed each SDGs specific indicators, targets, and objectives to establish materiality, alignment with operational objectives, and future ambition. Global SDG indicators were translated into 21 businesslevel objectives, 54 indicators, and 29 targets, driving performance outcomes.

To manage potentially competing stakeholder priorities and deliver across all goals, Transurban conducts major stakeholder engagement programs, including with 4,000+ stakeholders in FY22 to understand stakeholder values. These, along with traditional materiality assessments, clarify priority focus areas, and better position Transurban to achieve meaningful SDG-aligned outcomes.

Transurban is delivering strong SDG outcomes across 26 of its 29 SDG targets and continues to increase business ambition. SDG highlights to date include:

• Advancing road safety by reducing road injury crashes on roads, with Road Injury Crash Index (RICI) down from 4.7 (FY19) to 3.8 (FY22); Based on independent research, Transurban roads are twice as safe as similar roads (SDG 3)

• Ranked second in Australia, and eighth globally, by Equileap on gender balance, gender pay gap and more (SDG 5)

• improving energy efficiency and shifting to renewable energy, with more than two-thirds of electricity needs now met from renewable energy (SDG 7)

• The first ASX20 company to have validated science-based GHG reduction targets (1.5°C aligned); with Scope 1 & 2 GHG emissions currently 13% below FY19 (SDG 9)

• Diverting, on average, 97% of major project construction/ demolition waste from landfill (SDG 12)

• Supporting 13,000+ customers experiencing financial hardship through the Linkt Assist program; and spending a cumulative $1.5B (USA and Australia) with social procurement opportunities (SDG 11)

Transurban is one of only 22 companies globally to achieve 5-Star industry leader status with Support the Goals (https://supportthegoals. org/), and is consistently recognised as an ESG leader across global benchmarks including: the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark for Infrastructure (scoring 95/100 in FY22) and the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (in top 10% the largest 2,500 companies in the S&P). Transurban continues to create further long-term social value, is inspiring others, and developing new partnerships to promote and deliver on the SDGs.

Transurban conducts major stakeholder engagement programs, including with 4,000+ stakeholders in FY22 to understand stakeholder values. These, along with traditional materiality assessments, clarify priority focus areas, and better position Transurban to achieve meaningful SDG-aligned outcomes.

Marketing and Communication For Impact Award

Roots Regenerative

Roots Regenerative is 100% grassfed beef, raised exclusively on Regenerative Australian properties and was developed to give consumers a better beef choice, and to acknowledge, reward, and celebrate the efforts of Australian regenerative producers who have been quietly leading a soil health revolution.

By Paradigm Foods

Website: rootsregenerative.com/

We believe that the key to a sustainable food future is right under our feet, in the soil.

Roots Regenerative offers 100% grassfed beef, raised exclusively on regenerative Australian farms. Around the world, consumers are demanding more environmentally sustainable products, and beef is no exception.

Paradigm Foods created Roots Regenerative to cater to this need - giving consumers a better beef choice not only for their health but also for their environmental conscience.

More than this, Roots Regenerative was born from a passion to acknowledge, reward, and celebrate the efforts of Australian regenerative producers who have been quietly leading a soil health revolution. Working collaboratively with leaders in Regenerative Agriculture, the team at Paradigm Foods has pioneered the definition of "regenerative beef" to build a beef program and brand with integrity, underpinned by an intensive onboarding and verification program to supply into the Roots brand.

After 18 months in the making, Roots Regenerative Beef is now sourced from over 50 certified regenerative properties, covering over 750,000 hectares of regenerative farmland. On these properties, livestock are being used as a critical tool in maximizing ground cover and enhancing ecosystems. To date, these livestock have produced 1 million nutritionally dense meals for consumers around the world – proudly branded as Roots Regenerative, the connector between our regenerative producer community and the conscious beef consumer.

The Roots brand has been carefully and thoughtfully curated by in-house brand specialists and supported with an engaging and disruptive launch campaign. Acknowledging that the world of Regenerative agriculture is extremely complex, Roots offers consumer-friendly context and education in the form of a key communications tool, The Six Roots of Regenerative Grassfed Beef.

The Six Roots succinctly summarizes the benefits of a regenerative system - namely, increased soil health, increased biodiversity, increased carbon sequestration, enhanced water cycle, enhanced animal wellbeing, and enhanced farmer wellbeing.

Many beef products can claim to be better for you, some claim to be better for the animal, but only a regenerative beef product can truly claim to be better for the environment.

Roots Regenerative is bigger than beef – it’s starting a regenerative movement for a better food future. Our goal is not only to represent the entire regenerative beef community in Australia but also to grow this community – both locally and globally. Our certification system is collecting objective data on ecological and climate outcomes from regenerative farming. We plan to use this data to assist in the growth of academic research in this field and to arm the regenerative farming community with evidence to influence policy for more sustainable farming systems.

With the passion of a regenerative community of producers and the power of a compelling consumer brand, our ambition is that regenerative farming will become the dominant farming system, and Roots Regenerative will be affectionately known as the trailblazing brand that set the standard.

Australian Wildlife Conservancy (AWC)

AWC’s Spotlighting the Bilby campaign showcased the efforts of conservationists around the country through a series of innovative public education materials to target a monumental audience, achieving international reach and substantial funding to support the conservation of Australia’s threatened wildlife and the environments they inhabit.

The mission of the Australian Wildlife Conservancy (AWC) is to effectively conserve all Australian animal species and the habitats in which they live.

AWC is actualizing its vision of a public that values and actively contributes to the preservation of biodiversity through campaigns like the Spotlighting the Bilby Series. These campaigns bring species emblematic of the urgency and hope within the biodiversity crisis into the spotlight, creating emotional and financial investment from the public in the preservation of Australia's unique species.

Website: australianwildlife.org/

In early 2021, AWC embarked on the Spotlighting the Bilby Series to raise the Bilby's profile, using it as a vehicle to depict:

• The imminent threat of extinction (as evidenced in the loss of the Lesser Bilby)

• The positive recovery that can be achieved through science-informed conservation interventions (thanks to our land management work, AWC now protects approximately one tenth of all surviving Bilbies, and that number is growing)

• The significant influence of species on their floral and faunal counterparts as vital parts of a broader web, each needing conserving to maintain the health of the ecosystems they inhabit (in its role as an active burrowing mammal, engineering burrows and supporting soil fertility)

This campaign involved a National Bilby Day fundraiser and unique Bilby videos and images, which showcased the transformative capacity of conservation work, inspiring people to contribute to species preservation. Additionally, we developed an Annual Bilby Census to create datadriven stories that strongly resonated with major donors and those deeply interested in conservation, engendering substantial funding to help us achieve the UN's Life on Land SDG. We also created a dedicated Kids' Corner and Kids' Activity book as part of this campaign, expanding our audience majorly by creating resources for early education initiatives across the country.

The campaign had a monumental reach and impact both locally (reconnecting First Nations communities to regionally extinct culturally significant species), nationally (facilitating young people's engagement with our unique biodiversity and key conservation principles across the country), and internationally (with media hits and syndications reaching a potential audience of 175 million people). This significantly raised the profile of one of Australia's key threatened species, creating a gateway for learning

about the imminent threats facing Australia's wildlife, as well as opening avenues for hope and attachment to biodiversity restoration as achievable and vital.

Ultimately, these direct contributions to the SDG Life on Land goal have substantially contributed to the accomplishment of the 15.A and 15.5 SDG targets: to raise awareness, action, and funding to protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss, and to mobilize and significantly increase from all sources financial resources to conserve and sustainably use biodiversity and ecosystems. Individually, the activities achieved stellar results and significantly boosted awareness, education, and support for the Bilby. Together, they have elevated the conversation about and raised vital funds for Australia's vulnerable and threatened species.

This campaign had a monumental reach and impact both locally, nationally, and internationally.

Central Coast Council

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On World Environment Day 2022, the NSW Central Coast achieved a major milestone in an inspiring journey to become one of Australia’s first certified ECO Destinations. Thanks to a fully funded place from WWFAustralia’s Wildlife & Nature Recovery Fund following the 2019-2020 bushfires that ripped across regional NSW, this provided an opportunity to rebuild as a vibrant, resilient, and sustainable tourism destination.

Driven by the Marketing & Tourism team of Central Coast Council's Destination Central Coast, this worldfirst program in partnership with Ecotourism Australia has not only rooted natural beauty at the heart of their destination marketing but also reshaped its reputation as a sustainable place to visit and refocused local businesses on creating an environment where ecotourism thrives.

Website: centralcoast.nsw.gov.au/

NSW Central Coast’s ECO journey to rewild destination marketing

Located 90 minutes north of Sydney, the NSW Central Coast is blessed with more than half of its region as national parks, state forests, bushland, nature reserves, beaches, and waterways. Around 90% of locals live within 400m of open space, with more than 200km of safe, shared cycleways. The region is home to NSW's only pearl farm and Shellar Door and has one of the richest repositories of Aboriginal rock carvings in the world, with thousands of registered Aboriginal cultural sites - some older than Egypt’s Pyramids or England’s Stonehenge. So far, the Coast proudly has seven ECO Certified tourism businesses, plus another six on their journey towards sustainability. The region's commitment to sustainability runs deep — in a public pledge to the community, guests, industry, and the environment, this is more than a Destination Brand, creating a ripple effect and significant impact across many strategic areas of the council’s remit.

As an ECO Destination, the Central Coast Council's strategic documents leading progress for the region will be guided by the international Green Destinations Standard, based on all 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Strong partnerships have been forged with NPWS, State Forests, Take 3 for the Sea, and Darkinjung LALC, generating resourceful relationships to inform responsible

tourism. Their ECO journey has also opened up communication across multiple Council teams, building collaboration on sustainability initiatives with Waste, Waterways, Energy Management, Natural Assets and Biodiversity, Economic Development, Heritage, Planning, Events and Placemaking, Community Programs, and Visitor Services.

A foundation of the Central Coast Destination Brand strategy is to ‘promote and grow tourism that celebrates the natural and cultural assets of the Central Coast in a way that is accessible, sustainable, and eco-friendly.’ Their Destination Management Plan vision nurtures the ECO Destination status too: ‘From headland to hinterland, a thriving, connected, and supported industry will provide compelling visitor experiences that position the Central Coast as a premier sustainable tourism and lifestyle destination’.

Achieving ECO Destination status has been the launchpad for managing and marketing the region. An evergreen strategic marketing campaign is repositioning the region as a destination for the conscious traveler, tomorrow’s families, and today’s empowered locals. Through authentic, visual storytelling, the Coast is actively sharing its desirability as a place to live, work, and play against the natural beauty of its environment, shaped by a diverse maker and creator community.

This rewarding ECO journey is already being celebrated with the Central Coast being the only Australian destination awarded Finalist status in the Green Destinations Top 100 List two years running. A recent Expedia Group report, ‘The No-Normal: Unexpected Travel Trends for 2023’, reveals the Central Coast as the #4 domestic destination. No longer a summer holiday ‘pit stop’, visitors to the Central Coast are now fulfilling their desire to return to nature, support local communities, and leave only footprints.

The Coast proudly has seven ECO Certified tourism businesses, plus another six on their journey towards sustainability. The region's commitment to sustainability runs deep — in a public pledge to the community, guests, industry, and the environment, this is more than a Destination Brand, creating a ripple effect and significant impact across many strategic areas of the councils remit.

Respect the Throne - flushing out problem behaviours from the bottom up Hunter Water

The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent toilet paper shortage had an immediate impact on Hunter Water’s wastewater system, with a sharp increase observed in non-degradable matter in the wastewater network. , and beef is no exception.

Website: hunterwater.com.au/

In collaboration with Transport for NSW, Newell Hwy Upgrade Project, BMD, Aecom

Immediate action was required to reduce the risk of blockages in the network, and potential environmental and health risks to the community. Hunter Water delivered a creative message to the community in a timely, cost-effective, and quirky way in order to gain cutthrough in a challenging customer communications and engagement environment. Being adaptable, responsive, and creative was key to achieving fast and measurable behavior change across the community to address an escalating operational challenge. The ‘Respect the Throne’ message was delivered using the right tone, at the right time, and in the right place.

Within the Australian water industry, the occurrence of large-scale sewer blockages is significant. Like all sewerage systems, Hunter Water’s network is designed to treat degradable sewerage, known in the industry as the 3P’s. The flushing of items such as paper towels, sanitary products, and wipes is further contributing to the problem, resulting in potentially severe impacts on the environment and community liveability, as well as safety risks to water utility staff and potential customer dissatisfaction.

Being aware of the current environment, being relevant, and delivering a timely message with the right pitch and tone was what made this a successful engagement approach on a topic that doesn’t often get the same attention as water conservation initiatives. The ‘Respect the Throne’ campaign successfully cut through in a cluttered public communications environment and showed that a creative and adaptable communications approach can provide a fast, cost-effective, and durable behavior change outcome.

This campaign effectively progressed SDG 6, specifically target 6.1, by improving the efficiency of Hunter Water's wastewater plants, target 6.b by providing education around appropriate disposal of nonbiodegradable products, and 6.3 through the reduction of pollution through education, resulting in fewer sewer main breaks and their associated pollution.

Being adaptable, responsive, and creative was key to achieving fast and measurable behaviour change across the community to address an escalating operational challenge.

Unhurried

Life Unhurried is on a mission to change the way people travel Life

As the pace of life picks up again, many people are wanting to hold on to aspects of the simpler and slower life that the pandemic brought. Fortunately for this new age of traveller, three women, bound by a passion for slow and sustainable living and travel, had the foresight to establish Life Unhurried.

Then, amidst the lockdowns and border closures of 2020, they launched the carefully curated directory, Slow Stays – the official edit of the world’s best slow and sustainable accommodation.

Website: lifeunhurried.com/

From cabins to glamping tents and tiny homes, geodesic domes and ecofriendly boutique hotels, Slow Stays has become the go-to for authentic accommodation across Australia. Properties are selected through a rigorous set of criteria that spans location, sustainability, community and wellness. The platform provides the owners with an opportunity to share the story behind their property and avoid hefty commissions, and allows travellers to book directly, ensuring money stays in the pockets of small business owners.

Co-Founder Celeste Mitchell said “The onset of the pandemic meant people were forced to slow down and stay closer to home. It meant that when they did venture out, they wanted it to be somewhere special; somewhere they could recalibrate. Instead of spending hours scouring the internet, we wanted to help people cut through the clutter to find unique soul-filling stays that also tread lightly on the earth.

“What we are hearing now from our accommodation members is that visitors have loved discovering regional travel, slowing down and going off grid and they are seeing people book in for these stays a couple of times a year with mental wellness in mind. “

A recent global survey undertaken by Expedia Travel Group shows consumer trends observed by Life Unhurried reflect global trends with 90% of consumers surveyed looking for sustainable travel options and 74% would choose a destination, lodging or transportation option that is committed to supporting the local community and culture even if it came at a higher cost.*

The same survey showed that seven out of ten consumers felt overwhelmed by starting the process of being a more sustainable traveller and more than half of those surveyed said their preference was to discover sustainable options from listings and information pages on travel sites. This is no doubt why Slow Stays by

Life Unhurried is thriving in a postpandemic travel environment with over 100 properties listed in Australia and New Zealand soon to follow.

Delivering slow and sustainable travel inspiration across several mediums, the Life Unhurried YouTube channel is also filled with Slow Stays videos, including a Virtual Check-In series for armchair travellers, and the team have their first book set for release on the 7th of September with Hardie Grant. The book showcases 50 of the best slow and sustainable stays from across Australia.

"What we are hearing now from our accommodation members is that visitors have loved discovering regional travel, slowing down and going off grid and they are seeing people book in for these stays a couple of times a year with mental wellness in mind"

Net Zero Leadership Award

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Metrics Credit Partners Pty Ltd

Metrics measures up on sustainability

Metrics Credit Partners (Metrics) is a prominent Australian non-bank corporate lender and alternative asset manager. Metrics offers tailored borrowing solutions to businesses of all sizes and industries in Australia and New Zealand. Through its managed funds, Metrics provides access to the Australian private debt market to a wide range of investors, from individuals to global institutions.

Like many investors, Metrics recognizes that climate change presents both risks and opportunities for itself and the entities in which it invests. In recognition of the best available climate science, Metrics acknowledges the urgent need to accelerate the transition towards global net-zero emissions and for asset managers to contribute to the goals of the Paris Agreement and ensure a just transition to a low-carbon economy.

Website: metrics.com.au/

Metrics aims to become a net-zero leader in the asset management industry by measuring and reporting its emissions and adopting ambitious and credible net-zero targets. In 2021, Metrics formed a dedicated Sustainable Finance team to drive Metrics toward net zero. The team's initiatives have included developing an innovative ESG and Sustainability borrower questionnaire, measuring Metrics' operational and financed emissions based on leading standards, and setting and publicly disclosing ambitious science-based emissions reduction targets.

Metrics' inaugural Climate Report transparently outlines its efforts and achievements to date and gives stakeholders valuable insights into where Metrics will focus its efforts to reach net-zero. While Metrics has taken steps to reduce its operational carbon emissions by switching to carbon-neutral electricity in all its offices and upgrading to more energy-efficient LED lighting, it acknowledges that, as a fund manager, the main channel through which it can influence the real world is by the entities in which it invests. Metrics has projected its emissions profile to 2050 to highlight where

it needs to focus its efforts to reach net-zero and begun a program of engagement with all of its heaviestemitting borrowers to better understand their emissions and transition strategies.

In a truly transformative year, Metrics has measured up against its peers regarding net-zero and emerged as a leader.

Key achievements:

• Named one of the AFR's Sustainability Leaders 2022

Metrics has projected its emissions profile to 2050 to highlight where it needs to focus its efforts to reach net-zero and begun a program of engagement with all of its heaviestemitting borrowers to better understand their emissions and transition strategies

• Calculated its Scope 1, 2, and 3 carbon footprint using the world's best practice Global GHG Accounting and Reporting Standard for the Financial Industry developed by the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF). Metrics was the first financial institution headquartered in Australia or New Zealand to commit to using the PCAF Standard

• One of the first financial institutions in Australia to commit to setting science-based emissions reductions targets via the Science-Based Targets initiative.

• Developed ambitious nearterm targets, exceeding the minimum ambition required by SBTi. Disclosed those targets as an investor signatory to the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative and published its inaugural Climate Report.

• Developed a proprietary ESG and Sustainability questionnaire and rating methodology to capture data necessary for Metrics to more accurately and efficiently calculate its Scope 3 financed emissions.

Black Stump Technologies

Australian sustainability technology company Black Stump has partnered with Transport NSW and consortium partners BMD and AECOM to produce annualised CO2 emissions savings of 200,000 kilograms at the Newell Highway Upgrade project by replacing diesel generated power with its market-leading renewable energy technology solution, the Solarator.

Black Stump, an Australian company, has developed world-leading renewable technology with global applications across several industry sectors.

Our technology solves the problems of CO2 emissions, toxicity, cost, and dependence by individuals, communities, and organizations on diesel generators for power and refrigeration.

Website: blackstumptechnologies.com.au/

Our purpose is Smart Green Power For A Better Planet. Our technologies have a global environmental, social, and economic impact. Black Stump has given particular focus to the Australian infrastructure and construction industry to assist infrastructure companies in achieving net-zero. Black Stump has partnered with Transport New South Wales (NSW) consortium partners BMD and Aecom to provide renewable energy to power site compounds on the Newell Highway Program Alliance project, initially located at Back Creek, NSW.

Our technology solutions are mobile, modular, scalable, and rapidly deployable. On the Newell Highway project, Black Stump set out to replace business-as-usual diesel generator power with our renewable energy technology unit, known as a 'Solarator.'

A Black Stump Solarator is a turnkey renewable energy solution that operates with 100% reliability 365 days a year, 24/7 in all conditions. Black Stump's patented sustainable technology involves a complex engineering alchemy of solar, batteries, and (bio)-diesel with verifiable data.

The Black Stump Solarator 50 replaced the diesel equivalent, providing renewable energy to the compound. Data collected has shown significant CO2 and dollar savings. In the period from the initial deployment in February 2022 to September 2022, there were 119,522 kilograms of CO2 saved, which translates to annualized CO2 savings of over 200,000 kg.

Savings recorded at the Back Creek site are being replicated on each Solarator deployment across the infrastructure industry. We estimate that 200 million kgs of CO2 emissions can be saved each year by replacing diesel generators with Solarators on infrastructure sites across Australia. Black Stump provides a real-time data portal to our clients on the environmental and commercial impacts of our technologies.

Black Stump's impact aligns with United Nation's SDGs, particularly 13, 17, 7, and 9. Black Stump's renewable technologies are now increasingly being adopted by leading infrastructure companies in Australia and internationally.

The application of our technologies that reduce global reliance on diesel is being implemented by

Black Stump working with domestic and international governments, implementing manufacturers under license and distribution agreements internationally, and through education and training.

Black Stump has disrupted the diesel generator market. We have achieved this through our determination to commercialize complex sustainable technology and education of the market. We have scalable technology solutions, and we have established a leveraged IP and manufacturing model internationally.

The Newell Highway project will create its own legacy. Transport NSW will use the Solarator 50 it has purchased on further projects. Each Solarator has an operating life of 20 years. This means that each Solarator will save over 4 million kgs of carbon over its 20-year lifetime.

Having recently raised capital to scale our business, Black Stump is on track to building a global business.

FutureFeed

FutureFeed is paving the way for an entirely new industry: Asparagopsis seaweed as a livestock feed ingredient to drastically reduce methane emissions.

Methane is more than 80 times greater in its 20-year global warming potential (GWP) than carbon dioxide, which is why it receives so much attention on a global level, such as at COP27, as well as

at a national level, with the Australian government having just signed the Global Methane Pledge.

Website: future-feed.com/

The agriculture sector is in a unique position to be a part of the climate change solution, with FutureFeed's technology having the potential to drastically reduce methane emissions. The natural Asparagopsis supplement can achieve 80 per cent lower methane emissions.

In turn, we can assist in developing a sustainable future for the livestock industry, on which over a billion people depend globally, partially or entirely, for their livelihoods. Livestock provides protein and micronutrients to many of the world’s 830 million people experiencing food insecurity.

The FutureFeed story began with a farmer who noticed cattle by the sea that ate seaweed were more productive than other cattle - they grew faster and were healthier. Testing by scientist Dr Rob Kinley discovered that methane emissions from the cattle consuming seaweed were much lower. This sparked a global search for a seaweed genus with even more methane-busting potential. Dr Kinley joined with the CSIRO, Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) and James Cook University (JCU) in a quest to discover a natural feed ingredient that both reduced methane and improved feed use

efficiency. After testing more than 30 types of seaweed, it was the results from Asparagopsis that were the most astounding. In vitro trials mimicking a cow’s stomach showed up to 100 per cent elimination of methane, with just a handful of the seaweed required. In vivo (animal) trials then showed that reductions of 80 per cent could be achieved in a farm setting.

With the science proven, the CSIRO, with support from leading industry partners, established FutureFeed on behalf of the IP owners MLA, JCU and CSIRO. FutureFeed exists to drive the commercialisation of this discovery, licensing Asparagopsis producers around the world. The licences provide livestock market access and ensure the technology is rolled out in a safe and sustainable way.

FutureFeed is working with government to ensure enteric methane reductions will allow farmers to participate in ACCUs (Australian Carbon Credit Units). The product will also be attractive to livestock producers because of feed efficiencies. Early studies indicated that average daily weight gain (ADWG) performance and feed conversion efficiency could

be significantly improved using low levels of Asparagopsis. Feed energy otherwise lost as methane emissions can be redirected into weight gain. The early studies were based on a small sample size, so we recently commenced a large herd trial to confirm these improvements. We anticipate publishing this study after peer review in mid-2023.

Solar Thermal Australia

Reclaim Energy’s new era of water heat pumps helps Australiana move closer towards net zero emissions by targeting reductions of up to 80% on household energy use and emissions compared to the conventional electric heaters.

As a medium sized business, Reclaim Energy by Solar Thermal Australia realised the greatest impact we can have in achieving net zero emissions is by making it easier for others.

Using industry leading technology, we developed a heat pump hot water system to meet the demanding and variable Australian conditions.

Website: reclaimenergy.com.au/

Australian households generate at least 20% of Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions. Water heating is the greatest contributor to this problem producing up to 25%. Furthermore, it is the second largest segment of household energy use of up to 30%.

To address this issue, Reclaim Energy developed a sustainable heat pump hot water system that reduces annual energy bills, emissions and is significantly more environmentally friendly. The Reclaim Energy heat pump hot water system features are unique to the Australian marketplace.

Our unique hot water solution delivers proven savings of up to 80% compared to the conventional immersion electric or gas water heaters on an annualised basis. The savings/energy draw of our heat pump is measured using 3rd party energy monitoring devices that measure the usage of our system, and our new version of controller has a built-in monitoring so moving forward every single unit installed can show the proven performance in kW & kWh (i.e., 0.01 kWh/L of hot water).

The energy savings associated with each Reclaim unit is in the order of ~4 GWh/year, equivalent to a total

CO2 abatement of ~3.5 tons of CO2 per year. A cost savings of ~ 600 $/ year per unit installed.

Our primary focus was to develop a fully demand response, low energy draw hot water solution (i.e., < 0.01 kWh/L of hot water) with zero CO2 emissions and using a natural CO2 refrigerant that for future zero emission buildings, providing energy savings in the order of 80-100% compared to the conventional hot water heating methods.

The secondary focus of our business has been to develop a smart control system that aligns the operations of our hot water units with the most cost-effective electricity tariffs or when a households solar PV is performing at its optimum level to offset the running costs of the system and integrating to home energy management/optimisation systems from third parties, thereby giving householders free and/or low-cost hot water.

The latest version of the product has been equipped with an internal Wi-Fi module and data monitoring/ sharing that uploads to the cloud. This data can be accessed by other energy management devices to allow

householders to manage the unit to operate at optimal times for energy use and emission reduction.

Our unique hot water solution delivers proven savings of up to 80% compared to the conventional immersion electric or gas water heaters on an annualised basis

Small to Medium Enterprises Sustainable Leadership Award

The Pimpama River Conservation Area is located on the southern bank of the Pimpama River and borders the Southern Moreton Bay Marine Park and a Ramsar listed wetland.

Forico Pty Ltd

Forico, a private Tasmanian forest manager leading the way in natural capital reporting through understanding and communicating the value of our dependencies and our impacts on the natural world.

Forico is Tasmania’s largest private land manager, managing approximately 173,000 hectares of land across the state.

Our globally certified forests consist of 89,000 hectares of plantation, managed for high quality wood fibre production, and 77,000 hectares of natural vegetation managed for conservation, biodiversity and cultural values. The natural forest areas are not available for harvest.

Website: forico.com.au/

Forico has produced a globally award winning and Australian-first Natural Capital Report using a revolutionary approach to place a value on nature. Working collaboratively, we harnessed the knowledge and expertise of a passionate group of foresters, ecologists, sustainability professionals and accountants to produce a ground-breaking document.

Our Natural Capital Reports present natural capital value in the common language of the dollar within the familiar format and structure of financial reporting. This reveals to our stakeholders the significant value of natural capital in our business.

Forico has a strong commitment to sustainable management practices that “make every hectare count”. Sustainable outcomes deliver economic, environmental and social benefits to all stakeholders. As a leading forestry and landscape manager, we are mindful that our business is interdependent on nature and the communities in which we work and live.

We measured, valued and published our first Natural Capital Report 2020. One of the first of its kind in the world. This was followed by the second Natural Capital Report 2021. The 2022 Natural Capital Report will be published in early 2023.

We measured and valued our most material ecosystem services, namely (i) biomass and wood fibre production; (ii) carbon storage and sequestration; (iii) water flow and sediment control; and (iv) habitat and biodiversity services.

Our sustainably managed forests and their associated ecosystem services

Incorporating natural capital accounting within standard financial approaches and business processes provides several benefits for Forico, including:

• Improved operational decision-making using a more complete set of financial accounts that report on our impact and dependencies on nature;

• Improved communication to stakeholders through the identification of a wider range of ecosystem service benefits to the Forico business as well as society; and

• Improved strategic allocation of financial resources to maximise the flows of ecosystem services across catchments and landscape.

have a natural capital value of $3.39 billion consisting of $463 million to business and $2.93 billion to society (FY 2021).

Outputs have been measured using credible and repeatable methodologies to calculate the values (both physical and financial) of the ecosystem services. To demonstrate we have aligned our approach to these appropriate methodologies and accepted accounting standards, our Natural Capital Reports are independently assured by KPMG to provide robust oversight and endorsement of our process so our stakeholders and investors can have confidence in the results presented.

Our Natural Capital Reports are changing the focus of our conversations when we make strategic decisions, assess risks and deploy financial resources to ensure nature is appropriately valued and represented in decision making.

We strongly believe that producing sustainable forest products and providing nature-based solutions will help mitigate climate change, biodiversity loss and lead the transition to a circular economy. Forests are climate positive and nature positive.

We strongly believe that producing sustainable forest products and providing nature-based solutions will help mitigate climate change, biodiversity loss and lead the transition to a circular economy.

Leather Cattle Co

Leather Cattle Co leads by example in the sustainable production of beef through excellence in environmental stewardship, animal management and increased productivity.

By building skills, resources, and practice change through collaboration, effective change can occur to increase sustainability within the Australian Beef Industry. beef is no exception.

The value of this approach is that it can be scaled at any level, and by creating “Communities of Purpose”, people with a common interest can come together to meet a collective need that generates positive outcomes. Alignment with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) allows beef producers to illustrate to consumers, customers, and community how contribution to sustainability can be reached in a global context.

In collaboration with Robert, Melinee, Adam and Chloe Leather

Leather Cattle Co has been at the forefront in setting a pathway to sustainability with a willingness to test and ground-truth sustainability methodologies and define how they can be implemented on farm. The on-ground works completed by their enterprise has not only resulted in positive environmental outcomes for the operation but has initiated discussion and action for others. As recognized leaders in the sustainable production of beef, they have matched words with actions and evidenced this with verifiable data. The enterprise has a deep sense of responsibility of how they contribute to global food security and climate action.

They understand the importance of sustainable beef production to meet the nutritional needs of an increasing population that requires safe and nutritious protein sources. The beef industry plays an important role in offsetting national emissions by sequestering carbon in soils and vegetation, but there is also importance to insetting for the beef industry. Leather Cattle actively trial new technology and methodologies to address this and share outcomes with a broad audience. This will ensure market access and long-term sustainability is assured for beef producers.

With over 30 years of verifiable data and evidence, they exemplify how food and fiber production goes hand in hand with ecosystem services. With a proven record of sustainable timber and cattle production in areas that are also home to endangered plant and animal species, other producers, community, and government can get a better understanding of the opportunities for long-term sustainability. Through sciencebased trials and research, paradigms that have been entrenched through generations can be changed for improved environmental outcomes. Knowledge builds confidence, and collaboration provides technical and emotional support for successful transformation.

Research proves with improved conservation of land and water assets through increasing skills and uptake of new technology, we create resilience in farming systems, environment, business, and people. Leather Cattle Co demonstrates how this can be amplified through multi-stakeholder partnerships and creating a co-benefit of increased social cohesion and well-being in communities. The importance of good policy, innovation, capacity building, incentives, and enabling will be critical to enable this to a broader audience.

International markets and visitors have looked to Leather Cattle Co as a leader in sustainable beef production and a source of transparent credible data that help to inform their market decisions. Their business has generated local, national, and international responsiveness to the importance of sustainability and food security through conferences, webinars, visual, and print media.

Their business has generated local, national, and international responsiveness to the importance of sustainability and food security

Swag Australia

The Swag and Veggie Saver are intelligent, multi-award winning, patented, food storage and produce bags that are reusable, machinewashable, compostable, non-toxic and scientifically proven to keep fruit and vegetables fresh for two weeks or more in the crisper of the fridge.

Winning the fight against food waste? It’s in The Bag. How Swag Australia is reducing global household food waste, plastic pollution and saving households thousands.

Food waste is a global problem with one third of all food produced lost or wasted. In Australia alone, 7.6 million tonnes of food is wasted each year. On top of that, the world recycles less than 10% of plastic created. Swag Australia was born out of demand for a global solution that responded to these issues and delivered meaningful and measurable change, quickly and responsibly.

Website: theswag.com.au/

Swag Australia is the parent company of two brands, The Swag and Veggie Saver - both world-first, intelligent, multi-award winning, patented, food storage and produce bags that are reusable, machinewashable, compostable, non-toxic and scientifically proven to keep fruit and vegetables fresh for two weeks or more in the crisper of the fridge.

With the average Australian household throwing away over $2,000 worth of food each year, Swag Australia’s primary mission is to provide households with a simple, effective and affordable solution to reduce both food and plastic waste, and the cost of fresh produce to the household budget, with 5% of net profits donated to its charity partner, Destiny Rescue - rescuing children from human trafficking.

Swag Australia ideated, developed, and produced the Veggie Saver brand and its single SKU product in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic. After Swag Australia lost the entire wholesale arm of the business (The Swag) and was relying solely on direct-to-consumer (D2C) sales, Pini realised that it was crucial to create a standardised product made specifically for retail distribution so that it can be manufactured faster, have shorter lead times, and cheaper manufacturing costs due to less manufacturing “down time”.

Veggie Saver took all the best parts of The Swag and was tailored and packaged for global wholesale distribution, making it easier for retailers to display, market and sell. As the wholesale hero product, with one size (fits-most crispers), colour and style, Veggie Saver is targeted to the budget conscious, eco-newby, retailing for $24.95 (an investment that can pay for itself within the first two weeks of use).

Since its launch in 2021, Veggie Saver is now available in over 600 stockists across Australia, the US, Africa, Singapore, Norway and Hong Kong, and has recently secured distributors in the UK, Switzerland, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi

Arabia, UAE and Israel. The company is also currently in discussions with distributors in Spain, Denmark, Sweden and Asia-Pacific.

Swag Australia has also partnered with Going Global, an export program run by Investment NSW to help businesses understand foreign markets and identify new opportunities. The Swag continues to sell D2C, and has seen a 30% yearon-year increase in national sales (21/22).

Since 2018, globally Swag Australia has saved over 750,000 tons of fruit and vegetables and over 9.5 million single-use plastic bags from going to landfill. Since 2016 Swag Australia’s donations have contributed to rescuing more than 5,000 children

By 2030, Swag Australia will empower over 1 billion people to live waste and plasticfree

from trafficking, and funded ongoing rehabilitation through its partnership with Destiny Rescue.

In 2023, Swag Australia aims to expand its service offering to help industry reduce food waste for commercial customers and is already working with select restaurants, cafes and supermarkets for trial case studies.

By 2030, Swag Australia will empower over 1 billion people globally to live waste and plastic-free, with 5% of net profits donated to Destiny Rescue, resulting in over 10,000 children freed from trafficking and provided long-term rehabilitation.

Taylors Wines

Taylors Wines has a vision for a more sustainable industry

As a multi-generation family winery, Taylors Wines knows that caring for the land, ecosystems and climate is essential to making wine.

Wine grapes are one of the most sensitive crops to changes in temperature and precipitation, so it’s incumbent on all wineries to take action on sustainability for the future of our industry and planet.

Taylors Wines’ sustainability framework was created with reference to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Taylors is a medium-sized winery but hopes to have an outsized impact through its example, campaigns, and by engaging deeply with partners.

Website: taylorswines.com.au/

To take meaningful action on climate change, in July 2021 Taylors became the first independent Australian winery to announce Science Based Targets (SBTs) to reduce its emissions by 50% by 2030 and achieve Net Zero by 2050. Taylors has implemented a new solar installation, vineyard irrigation automation, LED lighting conversion, and is transitioning to certified GreenPower. The business has switched its cartons to 100% recycled cardboard, and recently planted 100 native trees on its estate.

In October 2021, Taylors was officially certified with Sustainable Winegrowing Australia, a national program that takes an integrated approach to sustainability, encompassing land, soil, water, people, business, biodiversity, energy, and waste; and which is modelled on global best practices and aligned to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Third-generation winemaker and Managing Director Mitchell Taylor said, “It is crucial that our sector comes together through initiatives like Sustainable Winegrowing Australia to show leadership on climate change. Working on the land, you see the drastic impact climaterelated events can have on the wines we make, and without bold action, we as an industry will be faced with even more challenges in the near future. We see these actions as vital steps towards a greener future for our industry and hope it inspires others to take action, too.”

In June 2022, recognising that glass bottles are an emissions hotspot for the industry, Taylors partnered with Coles and Packamama to launch Australia’s first 100% recycled PET bottle, which is 83% lighter, recyclable and 32% more spaceefficient. This Australian-first initiative has the potential to substantially reduce energy and transport emissions throughout the industry.

To champion sustainability beyond its business, Taylors has for several years supported the work of Sydney Institute of Marine Science (SIMS)

and Project Seahorse, to preserve marine environments and help recover declining populations of seahorses (which, like grapevines, are an indicator species highly sensitive to climate change).

Taylors’ sustainability program is deeply woven into the company strategic plan; has led to the establishment of a new internal environmental committee; and incorporates whole-of-company focus with engagement from across the business.

Taylors has sought to widely communicate the importance of a commitment to Science Based Targets, in order to identify a clear pathway for other Australian wineries and business seeking to take positive action on climate change.

Sustainable Leadership in the eCommerce and ReCommerce Industry Award

The Daily Routine

Introducing The Daily Routine: Daily essentials for a luxurious ecolifestyle - on repeat!

Buy Once. Refill Forever. Avoid Waste.

The Daily Routine is Australia’s first zero waste luxurious eco-lifestyle brand to create a range of water-soluble personal care pods that not only clean up our hands but also the planet.

Website: thedailyroutine.co/

The Daily Routine is a more planetpositive alternative to everyday essentials for an effortlessly sustainable daily routine. We all know that plastic is causing a huge problem for our planet and no doubt you want to do your part to make the world a better place. But, we totally get it – committing to an eco-friendly lifestyle can be pretty expensive, time-consuming and hard to stick to.

The Daily Routine was founded by two environmentally conscious best friends who both shared a deep passion for sustainability. After a few months of living together, they were horrified at the amount of household waste that they were producing every week. One night they were in the middle of popping a washing pod in

The Daily Routine was founded by two environmentally conscious best friends who both shared a deep passion for sustainability. After a few months of living together, they were horrified at the amount of household waste that they were producing every week. One night they were in the middle of popping a washing pod in their dishwasher when it dawned on them: what if they created pods for a hand wash?

their dishwasher when it dawned on them: what if they created pods for a hand wash? And just like that, The Daily Routine was born!

So, how does it work? It’s pretty simple…

Pour: Fill our reusable bottle with hot tap water

Pod: Drop in a single pod & wait a minute

Play: Shake bottle until the pod fully dissolves

Pump: Wash your hands with nourishing, foamy soap

The Pod:

The cutest pod of concentrated liquid hand wash is encased in a plantbased water-soluble cover. 100% vegan and cruelty-free, the coconut husk pods contain 10gm of delicately scented hand wash, leaving skin feeling soft and restored.

The Keeper Bottle:

Reusable, environmentally friendly, and safe to use in the bathroom, the Keeper Bottle makes eco-living look good and it’s even too gorgeous to keep hidden! Designed to hold up to 450ml of foaming hand wash, every Keeper Bottle is thoughtfully made from post-consumer recycled content (PCR) plastic, not glass, and is made right here in Melbourne, Australia.

Buy Once. Refill Forever.

Avoid Waste. The Daily Routine is Australia's first zero waste luxurious ecolifestyle brand

TABOO Period Products

TABOO Period Products exists to eradicate period poverty through the sale of sustainably made, certified organic cotton pads and tampons.

TABOO Period Products is a Social Traders certified social enterprise that sells 100% organic cotton pads and tampons on the market. 100% of profits and advocacy efforts go towards ending period poverty. Period poverty is experienced when someone does not have access to period products, menstrual health education, sufficient sanitation facilities (clean water and bathrooms), and waste management facilities to deal with their period.

TABOO exists to end period poverty. The company firmly believes that this goal is achievable in the foreseeable future through a systemic shift in values in both large enterprises and government.

Website: tabooau.co/

TABOO envisions a gender-equal world where people have access to personal hygiene products regardless of their sex and gender. That's why we have committed to two impact programs. The first is our 100% commitment of profits to helping end period poverty. Our second impact program is our Pad it Forward Program, where consumers purchase boxes of TABOO pads and tampons on behalf of someone living in period poverty.

In 2022, the PIF program delivered 1,634 boxes of period products to people in Australia experiencing period poverty. This support means that 1,634 people will have safe and uncomplicated access to period products for one whole menstrual cycle. This support has resulted in increased positive health outcomes and school engagement among the communities TABOO supports. Additionally, the support provided through the PIF program has resulted in increased awareness of period poverty and menstruation, and a decrease in social stigma and shame around menstruation.

TABOO encourages responsible consumption and production by selling a range of environmentally considered period products that are sustainably produced. TABOO

engages in responsible production by manufacturing its products in a hydroelectric powered factory offsite, as well as using certified organic cotton materials that have significantly lower environmental impact than regular cotton or plastic alternatives.

TABOO hopes to make accessible period products the status quo by encouraging organizations, councils, and educational institutions to make period products accessible in the workplace. TABOO also hopes to shape and influence the way that consumers purchase, so that

environmental and social factors are key influences in the consumer journey. As a social enterprise, we are excited by the opportunity for consumers to invest in socially productive initiatives simply by purchasing their everyday consumer goods from social enterprise brands. Simply put, TABOO is seeking to end period poverty by taking advantage of the consumer dollar.

TABOO hopes to make accessible period products the status quo by encouraging organisations, councils, and educational institutions to make period products accessible in the workplace. They also hope to shape and influence the way that consumers purchase, so that environmental and social factors are key influences in the consumer journey

Totem Eco

Exciting new e-commerce brand Totem Eco is on a mission to change global beauty for the better and is quickly being recognised as a leader in the clean beauty market with its holistic approach to sustainability.

Exciting new e-commerce brand Totem Eco is on a mission to change global beauty for the better and is quickly being recognized as a leader in the clean beauty market with its holistic approach to sustainability.

The family business was founded by Toby and Katie Gibson and is proudly 100% Australian made and owned. The couple had already made the switch to natural products after both experiencing health scares as a result of using everyday products. But it wasn't until they became parents that they realized just how many conventional products (even those designed for children) were made with toxic ingredients and materials that were potentially harmful to our health and the planet. This inspired them to create something better, and they knew they had the credentials to do so.

Website: totemeco.com.au/

With Toby's background as a research scientist and Katie's career as a hair and makeup artist, they decided to use their collective experience and knowledge to embark on a challenging and exciting journey to formulate a range of gentle, nourishing, non-toxic body products that celebrated beautiful native Australian ingredients, were ecofriendly, sustainable, super effective, and looked and smelled amazing.

They believe there is great responsibility in owning a brand, particularly if it is successful and becomes a "Totem" for existing and younger generations to come. The impact that a brand and its products can have on our health and the wellbeing of the environment can be incredibly significant. Equally, they believe that small changes can make a big difference.

"By helping people to change their everyday habits and allowing them to make conscious and informed decisions about the products that they use, we can improve our collective mental and physical wellbeing and in doing so, have a positive flow-on effect on our environment."

They apply this belief to their brand and all of the products that they make - it's their Way Of Life!

"Take our natural deodorant, for example. With every deodorant we sell, we avoid the potential sale of a conventional plastic deodorant and help someone make the switch to a healthier and more sustainable alternative. This small change can translate to a big difference when we're talking about a product that is used by a large portion of the population over a lifetime as part of their daily body care routine."

With the rise of greenwashing from big corporations and the misleading information that is fed to consumers, they've created a brand that is 100% honest. They believe that their brand is their voice and proudly use their online presence to increase awareness of their core values. They use this voice to educate their

"Helping people to change their everyday habits and allowing them to make conscious and informed decisions about products"

followers and, in doing so, encourage others to embrace sustainability, environmental awareness, equality, mental health, product awareness, and holistic wellbeing.

In under 6 months, Totem Eco has become a driving force in the Australian Beauty & Personal Care market's transition towards a cleaner, greener, safer, and more sustainable future. Putting the planet before profit, Totem Eco embraces sustainable practices in every aspect

of their business, right down to packaging and distribution. They use clean energy and locally sourced Australian, natural, and organically certified ingredients while consciously researching the production practices of all of their suppliers to ensure that their supply chain aligns with their core values. The brand is trusted to provide some of the best natural body care products available that are recognized as non-toxic, ethical, and sustainable.

Sustainable Tourism Award

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Passions of Paradise

Passions of Paradise: Turning tourists into conservationists

As the world moves forward from the COVID-19 pandemic, travelers are more attuned to their impact on traditional tourist destinations, particularly natural areas, and are now looking to ensure that their presence in these areas is not just minimalistic, but actively beneficial. By promoting citizen science and regenerative tourism, Passions of Paradise is leading the industry in engaging visitors and helping them participate in activities that restore and protect the Reef.

Passions of Paradise has been dedicated to reef conservation for more than three decades as a high-standard tourism operator on the Great Barrier Reef. Born from the founder’s quest for an “endless summer,” the company was founded to show tourists the reef and promote conservation.

Website: passions.com.au/

By creating an experience where tourists can access, witness, and participate in the scientific work being undertaken to monitor and protect the reef, Passions of Paradise has been able to expand its vision of a tourism experience that helps visitors feel more connected to the Great Barrier Reef. The company has crafted an authentic experience focused on science and regeneration that passengers can be assured provides a net benefit to the area they are visiting. This evolving approach to a new model of sustainable tourism allows passengers to experience responsible environmental stewardship and witness first-hand the management of natural resources and biodiversity,

as well as the protection of a fragile ecosystem.

Offering tourists access to citizen science and regenerative tourism offers a groundbreaking way to provide memorable and authentic transformative experiences to guests and allows the company’s reef sites to flourish. Passions of Paradise partners with a host of various stakeholders, each of which adds to the matrix of conservation activities. In the “Be a Marine Biologist for a Day” program, confident snorkelers can join Master Reef Guides and marine biologists in completing Eye on the Reef surveys for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, while certified divers can get a front-row seat to coral planting through the University of Technology

Sydney’s Coral Nurture Program. Participants can then work with crew members to enter data and debrief on the day’s activities. The company is carbon neutral and provides opportunities for guests to donate to offset their carbon footprint as well.

Blue Derby Pods Ride

Blue Derby Pods Ride is an off-grid eco-luxury adventure mountain biking experience in Tasmania that has an emphasis on giving guests ‘flow’; in turn facilitating the development of environmental stewards and encouraging these stewards to become more sustainable in their own lives.

Blue Derby Pods Ride (BDPR) is an ecoluxury adventure mountain biking experience in Tasmania that has an emphasis on getting guests into a state of ‘flow’. This is where magic happens, and where we achieve our purpose; to give our guests a great moment of realization.

Website: bluederbypodsride.com.au/

By exposing our guests to our unique off-grid accommodation pods and central hub, and our sustainable, low impact approach to business, these moments of realization frequently become sustainability focused. Through this approach, we achieve our primary goal; to facilitate the development of environmental stewardship in our guests.

We feel that we can further inspire this in our guests by achieving our year-on-year objectives:

• Inspire and facilitate at least one moment of flow for each guest.

• Attain 100% of our electrical requirements from renewable energy.

• Limit general waste to one 60-litre garbage bag per experience.

• Achieve carbon neutrality without over-reliance on carbon offsetting.

Our impact

We have achieved these objectives in alignment with the following SDGs:

Goal 2 & 4, SDG 7 & 13. We have recently expanded our on-site solar capacity to 24kWh, stored within 6 lithium-ion battery packs, enabling us to receive over 99% of our electricity needs renewably from the sun.

Goal 4, SDG 8. We have promoted sustainable tourism and regional economic growth through employing local individuals and sourcing our produce from local suppliers.

Goal 3, SDG 12. We are leaders in waste reduction in the tourism industry and consistently finish our 3- and 4-day experiences with zero food wasted and less than one 60L

garbage bag of general waste.

Goal 1, SDG 15. We have promoted responsible forest management and have contributed to the conservation of native forest once earmarked for logging in the forests surrounding Derby, Tasmania.

Goal 4, SDG 13. BDPR produces less than one-third of the direct CO2-e emissions relative to a typical Australian small business.

Our sustainability efforts have not gone unnoticed by our guests; “…They [BDPR] are also passionate about leaving as light an environmental footprint as possible. This approach is woven through all that they do...” (Bella, Trip Advisor, 2021).

Many modern businesses are becoming dependent upon carbon offsets to achieve business sustainability. While offsetting is a good way to reduce a business’ impact, we believe that offsetting should be the last resort – the method to turn to once emissions can’t be reduced any further. By sourcing 100% of our renewable energy from on-site solar, drastically reducing food miles, eliminating food waste, and recycling the vast majority of our non-compostable waste, we’re significantly mitigating our emissions and environmental impact. Until further technological advancements in electric vans become available in Australia, we feel that we can’t reduce our emissions any further. It’s at this point that we turn to offsetting as a way of neutralizing our remaining emissions. As leaders in this space, we are disrupting expectations of the modern approach to business sustainability, and paving the way for a greener sustainable tourism industry in Australia.

Busselton Jetty Inc

Busselton Jetty Environment Foundation has the lofty goal to educate and inspire as many people as it can to be stewards of the wondrous marine environment.

Busselton Jetty Incorporated’s (BJI) environmental vision is achieved via Busselton Jetty Environment Foundation (BJEF), focused on environmental education and protection. BJI redirects 3% of annual profits to BJEF, along with private donations and fundraising.

BJEF actions include Schools Programs, Jetty Crew Youth Leadership and Beach Clean-ups. These programs connect community members and youths to environmental values beneath Busselton Jetty creating future marine environment stewards. BJEF supports marine monitoring, collecting biodiversity data, water temperatures, wave/ tidal information, and tertiary research scholarships. Monitoring ensures preparedness to face uncertain future challenges.

Website: busseltonjetty.com.au/

BJEF’s actions are guided by its objective:

“Protecting and preserving the natural environment in the vicinity of the Busselton Jetty and wider environs of Geographe Bay” to achieve its vision to “Be recognised as a leader of conservation in a worldclass environment”.

The following aims guide BJEF in reaching its vision:

1. Develop future environment stewards

2. Resilient healthy marine ecosystem

3. Recognised as a marine conservation leader BJEF has achieved considerable success across a diverse range of educational, conservation and scientific projects through leveraging partnerships and resources, achieving results which are considered above and beyond for the tourism industry and leading in local ESG governance.

Key results in 2020/21 & 2021/22 include:

• 470kg of waste collected through beach and underwater clean-up events.

• 6 scientific projects supported, e.g. South West Sea Slug Census.

• 3,317 students participated in education programs.

• 3 approved honours/PhD scholarships.

• 3 environmental assessments completed.

• 35% water use reduction at the Underwater Observatory.

• 22% reduction in paper use across the organisation.

• 995 subscribers to the ‘AdoptA-Marine Creature' initiative.

• 284 subscribers to the ‘Clean Ocean Pledge’.

• 17 secondary workplace students and 7 undergraduate internships

BJEF is a perfect case study for corporate citizenship - a Foundation embedding social responsibility into core Busselton Jetty business through implementing environmentally sound behaviours and corporate strategic decisions (ESG governance).

BJEF is seen as a leader in education, conservation, and science, with industry partners collaborating with BJEF in various projects and initiatives.

BJEF has the lofty goal to educate and inspire as many people as it can to be stewards of the wondrous marine environment. Programs target broad groups/demographics from early childhood to tertiary, and public to professional. In 2023, BJEF will expand these programs to a livestreamed virtual experience, providing educational material for student discovery in an immersive, curriculumbased virtual learning environment. Learnings focus on STEM content including biology, physics and conservation, and addresses climate action, waste reduction, and personal empowerment to create positive change.

The Virtual Program provides schools unable to travel to Busselton Jetty an opportunity to participate –specifically, regional, remote, and low socio-economic schools.

BJEF continues to significantly invest in fundraising activities to ensure it remains financially viable in achieving its marine education, conservation, and research objectives. BJEF personnel are highly passionate and additional to paid work, devote hours of volunteer time, and support volunteer contributions from community.

BJEF is focused on environmental education and protection, BJI redirects 3% of annual profits to the BJEF, along with private donations and fundraising

Fun Over Fifty

Playing An Active Role In Reef Conservation Through Promoting Sustainability, Science, And Partnerships

Fun Over Fifty Holidays (FOFH) is an award-winning sustainable Australianowned tour and transport operator based in Yugarabul country in South East Queensland, touring every Australian state and territory.

Providing guests with immersive experiences and adventures, they partner with 700 eco-cultural tourism operators and suppliers.

Paving a new way for the over-50s travel market, FOFH is breaking down barriers and perceptions of coach and group travel to be recognized as the best quality and most sustainable tour operator in Australia.

Website: funover50holidays.com.au/

In an Australian first, FOFH developed Our People and Planet Program, a quadruple-bottom-line framework, measuring their impact to achieve social, cultural, economic, and environmental sustainability:

People – culture of the people they visit, their guests, and team.

Planet – natural environment and wildlife of places they tour.

Progress – striving for constant innovation and improvement.

Profit – creating employment and economic benefit.

Engineered on the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), initiatives included:

• Green Bank - contributions to cultural, environmental, and wildlife initiatives, costed into each tour.

• Emergency Disaster Fundfunds held in trust for operating costs during crises.

• Green Guest Policy - guests forfeit hotel room servicing. Hotels reduce water, electricity, disposable amenities.

• Green Getaways – FOFH donates a coach for a cause. Guests pay to travel, donating and providing labor for the mission.

• Helping Hand Holidays – give back/crisis response initiatives to communities in need.

• Green & Gold Army – guests, staff, and crew participate in local planting/clean-up days.

• Greenfleet - partnership offsetting guest, crew, staff travel emissions.

• No Plastic Partner Program –agreement with guests/suppliers to remove single-use plastics.

Achieving Ecotourism Australia

(EA) certification in Respecting Our Culture, Advanced Ecotourism, Climate Action Leader, and Green Travel Leader, they hold the most products (over 150 tours and experiences) certified by EA. These initiatives advance the SDG goals including:

SDG 3 Good Health & Well-Being –new 4-day working week, improving mental health.

SDG 4 Quality Education –engaging 919 local eco, cultural, and indigenous guides (that’s a local guide for every 2 guests!) with Green Bank contributions of $125,566 across multiple sustainable projects including Miriwoong language preservation in Western Australia.

SDG 8 Decent Work & Economic Growth - injecting $1,923,535 into twenty 100% Aboriginal owned enterprises nationally.

SDG 9 Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure - crisis response tour innovations generating $1,393,252 revenue for industry in-need in.

SDG 13 Climate Action – offsetting 7,151 tonnes CO2-e through native revegetation (the equivalent of 13 Melbourne Cricket Grounds!) and saving 8,961 kgs CO2-e through their Green Guest Policy.

SDG 14 Life Below Water – multiyear financial commitments to reef restoration and turtle rehabilitation.

SDG 15 Life On Land – guests adopting and protecting national

iconic species including the Tasmanian Devil, bilby, and koala.

SDG 17 Partnerships – with local, state, and national tourism and environmental organizations.

“We’re very focused on grassroots give-back. We not only financially contribute but make real environmental reductions and mentoring of operators to ensure our long-term legacy,” says Toni Brennan, CEO, and company founder. “Let’s show once and for all, responsible tourism can be fun!”

“We’re very focused on grassroots give-back. We not only financially contribute but make real environmental reductions and mentoring of operators to ensure our long-term legacy”

— Toni Brennan

TRC Tourism

TRC Tourism developed the Pacific Sustainable Tourism Policy Framework to support sustainable transformation of the Pacific region’s tourism sector in line with the Sustainable Development Goals.

In collaboration with Pacific Tourism Organisation

TRC Tourism (TRC) is a leading tourism, recreation, and conservation planning consultancy based in Australia and New Zealand. We engage with businesses, governments, and communities to enhance people's lives and the places they live through sustainable tourism, recreation, and the conservation and protection of nature and culture.

Website: trctourism.com/

TRC Tourism is committed to delivering tourism projects that enrich people, places, and planet and drive positive change. As leading sustainable tourism experts in the Pacific region, our work centres on supporting destinations to contribute to the global SDGs. We understand the importance to Pacific Communities of protecting their island and ocean environments, their rich and diverse cultures and ensuring communities are benefitting from sharing their home, way of life, customs and culture with visitors from around the world.

TRC Tourism developed the Pacific Sustainable Tourism Policy Framework (PSTPF) to support sustainable transformation of the Pacific region’s tourism sector in line with the SDGs, following substantial research and a comprehensive consultation effort spanning stakeholders throughout the region. The framework sets out regional aspirations for sustainable tourism and includes the vision, goals, priorities, and measurable actions that will contribute to a better tourism future.

Our goal was to ensure that tourism in the Pacific continues to be a driver of economic and community wellbeing through developing a framework that enables all partners to progressively implement the policies and actions it contains to build a resilient tourism industry, fit for the challenges and opportunities the Pacific faces to 2030 and beyond.

Together with the Pacific Communities we developed, for the first time, a regional tourism vision, which states “We are empowered by and benefitting from tourism that is resilient, prosperous and inclusive. It improves the wellbeing of our communities and protects, restores and promotes our cultures, islands and ocean ecosystems”.

Developing the framework marked a substantial turning point for the region. It’s existence explicitly recognises that the Pacific will be judged now and by future generations on its willingness and ability to

achieve the goals set out within. The PSTPF provides clear direction for the region’s development partners, national Government colleagues, international financial institutions, regional and international agencies to support the tourism sector’s transformation toward sustainable tourism. It provides the mandate to prioritise green investments and work with regional partners to mobilise resources to build climate resilience and transition to a low emission, resource efficient

sector. It provides a framework to ensure visitors are offered high quality, authentic, accessible, and sustainable experiences that reflect each country’s uniqueness, and will drive creation of enabling legislation, policies, and programs which will leave a lasting legacy for generations to come.

Young Changemakers Award

Alex Makes Meals

Alex Makes Meals is a food-based charity who provide free meals and connections for vulnerable people in the community. Through food relief and care, they help to provide a positive difference to the lives of people in Melbourne.

Alex Makes Meals is a Melbourne based social enterprise that has been helping those in need in our community since 2020.

Alex Makes Meals operates by providing free food relief to 27 charity partners, which allows them to provide specialist services to the meal recipient and give them pathways out of their situation. Through partner charities, Alex Makes Meals offer high quality and nutritious meals to the elderly, the homeless, disadvantaged youths, domestic violence survivors, the differently abled, refugees and individuals/ families facing poverty.

Since its inception, Alex Makes Meals has provided close to 400,000 meals through key partner charities and continues to make a difference in people’s lives.

Website: alexmakesmeals.com/

Food relief is more than just a meal, it’s a gateway into a conversation and a way of providing love to the most disconnected. Alex Makes Meals aim to deliver over 3,000 meals a week. This translates into 3,000 chances for them to help improve our community and help those struggling. It will also be an opportunity to start that conversation with meal recipients and start them on the path out of their circumstances.

Alex Makes Meals is completely operated by volunteers with a volunteer work force of 60 to 80 people. It is fully funded by the generosity of its donors, social enterprise catering and proudly supported by Toyota Australia, through the use of their commercial kitchens and kitchen staff in Melbourne, and Darebin Council who also offer use of space.

Alex Makes Meals is not just giving meals, it's giving time. Two hours a day people don't have to spend worrying about their dinner. Time they can use to heal, love, and help themselves.

Food relief is more than just a meal, it's a gateway into a conversation and a way of providing love to the most disconnected

Climate Wise Agriculture

Creating a healthy planet and people through climate wise agriculture

In 2022, Climate Wise Agriculture, launched a program in Afghanistan and successfully trained nearly 200 farmers in the course of 3 months. Funded by the Crawford Fund, this project trained farmers in environmentally responsible crop management techniques.

Website: climatewiseagriculture.com/

Anika Molesworth

One focus area the requires attention is the management and eradication of diseases and pests in critically needed food crops. Diseases and pests are currently causing havoc for farmers, destroying food crops, and farmers lack the knowledge and technical ability to respond appropriately. By identifying, preventing, and managing diseases and pests in food crops, farmers will be able to produce better quality and quantity of food.

Agriculture is by far the most important source of livelihood in the country, with roughly 80% of the population are involved in the agricultural sector. Unfortunately, Afghan farmers are facing crises on multiple fronts as borders are closed, back-to-back environmental disasters of drought, forest fires, floods and earthquakes, and the economy is in free-fall.

The World Food Program reports that half the population of Afghanistan now face acute food insecurity (19 million). Afghans are facing catastrophic food insecurity and starvation. There is urgent and critical need to support agriculturalists in Afghanistan.

One focus area the requires attention is the management and eradication of diseases and pests in critically needed food crops. Diseases and pests are currently causing havoc for farmers, destroying food crops, and farmers lack the knowledge and technical ability to respond appropriately. By identifying, preventing, and managing diseases and pests in food crops, farmers will be able to produce better quality and quantity of food.

Climate Wise Agriculture is proud to continue to support farmers in some of the most vulnerable countries in the world.

Farmers Pick

It’s what’s inside that counts, Farmers Pick rescues imperfect fruit and vegetables from going to waste which in turn achieves sustainable positive impact on Australia’s fresh produce industry.

There has been significant awareness built around saving ‘imperfect’ produce, which historically has been dumped, and contributed greatly to Australia’s food waste. Farmers Pick, a Melbourne-

based subscription delivery service for fresh produce, takes the fruit and vegetables considered ‘too ugly’ for sale in major supermarkets and sells it directly to Australians at up to 30% lower than supermarket prices.

Website: farmerspick.com.au/

So far, over 1,000,000 kgs have been saved thanks to Farmers Pick across over 60 farms, meaning Australian families are being fed fresh produce that would otherwise go to landfill.

Farmers Pick was founded by friends Josh & Josh after a trip to their local market. Leaving the market wondering why some of the vegetables there were marked, bendy, and not quite so strangely ‘perfect’ looking, the pair went on a mission to better understand the industry.

The pair were deeply disturbed by the underreported national food wastage issue that not only affects the livelihoods of farmers, but Australian pockets, too. The unrealistic cosmetic standards upheld by the major supermarkets means a whopping 30% of perfectly imperfect produce never leaves the farm.

Josh and Josh launched Farmers Pick a few months later, with the goal of rescuing this produce and supplying it directly to Australians at a fraction of the cost. The driving force behind this operation is the desire to achieve sustainable positive impact on the food industry, which is the largest contributor to emissions in our country and across the world.

Josh Ball, who has always been a ‘change agent’ is the co-founder and Director of Farmers Pick, having started the business in 2020. With a strong background in data and technology, Josh brings his analytical background to Farmers Pick to specialise in the ESG and consumer behaviour side of the business, focusing heavily on the macro elements at play.

Josh Brooks-Duncan is the cofounder and Director of Farmers Pick. Josh’s background is rich in warehousing, logistics, and supply chain management. Josh BrooksDuncan is the brains behind the procurement side of the business, having a strong interest in heading up to see the farmers at work.

Farmers Pick’s fundamental goal has remained the same; to reduce on farm food waste. As the business has engaged more consumers, elements of the focus have switched to education on food waste in households. Farmers Pick now teaches its customers various ways to increase the lifespan of food in their home, how to store produce and the need for change when it comes to what we deem ‘perfect’ enough to eat.

Farmers Pick are leaders in the imperfect produce space in Australia leaders in this space. In under two years, the business has expanded its service area to include all of greater Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra and regional areas of VIC, NSW and ACT. So far, over 1,000,000kgs have been saved thanks to Farmers Pick across over 50 farms, meaning Australian families are being fed fresh produce that would otherwise go to landfill. Furthermore, via Farmers Pick’s partnership with OzHarvest, over 75,000 meals have been donated to Australians in need.

Initially disruptors, the now market leaders are eager to expand the offering nationwide, and continue to educate customers about the positive impact of buying and eating imperfect produce.

Messages From The 2023 Banksia Sustainability Awards’ Sponsors

Sponsor of the Leadership in the eCommerce and reCommerce Industry Award

Australia Post has been delivering for Australia more than 200 years. We have been the backbone of communities across the country and have seen the world evolve significantly during that time.

As one of Australia’s biggest and most trusted businesses, we believe we have a responsibility and an opportunity to create a more sustainable future that benefits all Australians.

Therefore today, sustainability is a key pillar of Australia Post’s enterprise strategy, underpinning everything we do for the planet, people and prosperity. From delivering more focused and strategic community partnerships to building Australia’s largest electric delivery fleet, we embrace our power to make a difference.

Our 2025 Sustainability Roadmap outlines what we will do to deliver on a future that sees us meet the needs of the present, without compromising the ability of future generations to meet theirs.

Achieving our 2025 emissions reduction target, which has been validated by the Science Based Target Initiative, will put Australia Post on the road to Net Zero emissions by 2050.

This year we were the inaugural sponsor of the Leadership in the eCommerce & reCommerce Industry Award. This award was created to recognise online and/or multichannel retailers who are leading the way in sustainability and demonstrating innovation throughout their value chain. Some of the ways we anticipated practices would be evolving included through emissions reduction, packaging and circularity of packaging, product innovation, circularity of product, and ethical sourcing.

We look forward to seeing this category grow in scope and sophistication so that we’re able to celebrate and share some of the bold new ideas that are making online shopping more sustainable.

Sponsor of the Health and Wellbeing Award

As a global healthcare company, Bupa has been looking after people’s health for over 75 years, including supporting more than 5 million customers across Australia through a broad range of services including health insurance, aged care, dental, optical, medical and medical visa services.

We understand that delivering healthcare has an environmental impact, and are committed to not only reducing our own emissions in line with scientific recommendations, but also the emissions of our suppliers and partners. That’s why we are accelerating our work to become a Net Zero business by 2040. This includes the utilisation of 100 percent renewable energy to fulfil the needs of our aged care facilities, health provision businesses and corporate offices in Australia with our commitment to renewable electricity also implemented across our New Zealand and Hong Kong operations.

With a focus on responding to issues that are critical to the physical, mental and environmental health of communities, the Bupa Foundation has invested more than $36 million to support more than 130 health, medical research and sustainability-focused projects across Australia and New Zealand.

At Bupa, we consider it vital to lead with actions to ensure we can deliver on our purpose of helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world.

A key part of our sustainability strategy is to support organisations and events that share our commitment to sustainability, biodiversity and creating healthier cities. Through our partnership with the Banksia Sustainability Awards we were both proud and humbled to help shine a light on businesses that are helping to create a healthy planet for healthy people through the Banksia Health & Wellbeing Award which in 2023 was won by Fire Rescue Victoria. As an emergency services provider, Fire Rescue Victoria have been undertaking significant work in protecting the health of the environment and local communities by developing solutions and advocating for the reduction of chemicals used in firefighting foams.

At Bupa, we have some significant environmental ambitions, but we know that there is a lot more work to do and we can't solve challenges like climate change on our own. We need everyone to play their part, including smaller non-profit organisations like Fire Rescue Victoria that are making a big difference in protecting our environment and the health of communities at a grassroots level.

We congratulate them on all the work they have undertaken to date and hope this Award can act as a springboard to enable further sustainable action and understanding of how people's health is impacted by the health of the planet.

Sponsor of the Marketing and Communications for Impact Award

For more than 30 years, Currie has been giving voice to those who strive for a kinder, safer, and fairer future for all.

We have worked with leaders and organisations who aren’t afraid to start difficult conversations about complex challenges, helping to turn their visions into strategies, stories and actions that help build a better world.

We believe in the power of stories - the truth well told - about people, planet and place to inspire positive change.

That’s why we sponsor the Banksia Marketing and Communications for Impact Award.

While no organisation is perfect, we see in the finalists for this category, that the best of them have the people and passion to strive to make a difference.

Through shining a light on these businesses and initiatives, we hope to inspire others to take up the challenge and play their part in leaving a happy and healthy world for future generations.

EY is committed to helping business create value for sustainability as well as helping sustainability create value for business – reframing how business approaches sustainability and putting it at the center of how value is created.

Sponsor of the Ethical Sourcing Award

Informed 365 believes that we can change the world if organisations buy their goods and services from 'good' companies, which is a reason why we are delighted to sponsor Banksia's Ethical Sourcing award. Informed 365 has been involved with the Banksia foundation for over ten years and our platform also hosts Banksia's judging portal. It has been brilliant to be part of Banksia's evolution and seeing hundreds of worthy organisations being recognised and celebrated by Banksia.

Sponsor of the Young Changemakers Award

For over a century, L’Oréal has been dedicated to one sole vocation: creating beauty. Our goal is to offer each and every person around the world the best of beauty in terms of quality, efficacy, safety, sincerity and responsibility to satisfy all beauty needs and desires in their infinite diversity. At L’Oréal, our purpose is to Create the Beauty that Moves the World, and central to this is our commitment to make a positive impact.

Through our L’Oréal For The Future program, we are acting to ensure we operate within the limits of the planet, as defined by environmental science. We are also tackling our indirect, extended impact related to the activity of our suppliers and the use of our products by consumers. Further, we want to take on greater responsibility by allocating 150 million euros towards helping address some of today’s most pressing social and environmental challenges.

Sponsor of the Net Zero Leadership Award

Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC) is the home of unconventional. We do things a little differently at MCEC by bringing fresh ideas and imagination to every event. We happily turn concepts on their head to make each experience momentous.

MCEC welcomes events of all shapes and sizes, from meetings and conferences to exhibitions, concerts, and galas, whether in-person, virtual or hybrid. We are always working to find innovative ideas that provide better outcomes for our community, customers, and our environmental footprint. We will continue to deliver creative solutions for our customers and collaborate with industry partners to ensure MCEC is a truly sustainable event destination.

MCEC was delighted to be sponsoring this year’s Net Zero Leadership award for the second time. Now more than ever before it’s essential that corporate and community leaders embed sustainability – both environmental and social - in the core of everything they do. The recognition, awareness and engagement provided by the Banksia Foundation and these awards inspires businesses to seek out new opportunities to excel in sustainability; to wholly embrace sustainable practices and become proactively part of the solution.

At MCEC, we’ve championed environmental sustainability for a long time, with a goal to improve our performance year-on-year. We are built on solid foundations, being the first convention centre in the world to be awarded a 6-star green environmental rating and our Exhibition Expansion has a 5-star green rating. Our vision is to lead extraordinary

environmental change and amplify our social impact by forging partnerships and inspiring our people to leave a positive legacy. Sustainability drives innovation, and we are always working to uncover innovative new ideas and adaptive strategies to increase our long-term sustainability and have an enduringly positive impact on our environment and communities.

MCEC has embarked on an ambitious sustainability strategy to eliminate unnecessary and problematic single-use plastics, divert 90 per cent of waste from landfill by 2025 and become 100 per cent powered by renewable electricity by 2028. We have made significant progress towards these goals including:

• Implementing an Energy Management System in the Exhibition Centre, which resulted in a reduction of energy consumption by up to 30 per cent.

• Sourcing approximately 15 per cent of the entire venue’s energy usage from a wind farm in regional Victoria.

• Donating over 16,280 meals to OzHarvest in 2022.

• Championing local produce on our menus and sourcing sustainable tea and coffee.

• Installing an organic dehydration system, which reduces organic waste by up to 80 percent.

We are privileged to be part of the incredible network of award sponsors and to recognise those that are leading the way to a more sustainable future. We congratulate the winner our category, Metrics Credit Partners Pty Ltd and all the incredible finalists in our category.

People are no longer passive listeners. Today’s communities seek to influence the conversation, interact with data and be immersed in technologies, live or virtual.

At MCI, we design tomorrow’s solutions that unleash the power of community. We are a global engagement and marketing agency. Firm believers in the power of building community since 1987, we are helping brands, associations and not-for-profit organisations solve their key challenges through our expertise in:

• Live & virtual events

• Strategic & digital communications

• Consulting & Community solutions

With our expertise in engagement and community building, we help our clients to motivate, incentivise, collaborate, grow and interact with their audiences. This synergy of experience and integrating intelligence delivers powerful engagement, activation, creative and strategic thinking. We believe that sustainable events can be positive forces for change. By embedding sustainability thinking we can improve quality, efficiency, the participants’ experience and accelerate innovation and design. MCI’s holistic approach to sustainable event design reduces costs, improves environmental impacts, builds stronger brand reputation, and leaves a powerful social legacy in the community and for future generations.

In addition to being one of the founding members of the Net Zero Carbon Events initiative, MCI has now officially signed the pledge to achieve net zero emissions by 2050. The pledge was officially launched at the 2021 Global Climate Summit COP26 in Glasgow. We are also proud event partners of The Banksia Foundation & The Banksia Sustainability Awards since 2014.

With our clients we aim to bring awareness to sustainable solutions. On the ground this means highlighting ecologically and ethically conscious solutions within our events and experiences, integrating design thinking, and reducing waste/ conserving resources wherever possible and designing events with Carbon Neutral Event Certification.

We set standards and take responsibility for integrating diversity and inclusion, whilst nurturing a culture of wellbeing and giving back to the community. We are committed to working together to build a vibrant culture of responsibility and care that generates value for our clients and the communities where we work. Striving for ethical leadership and governance, equity and diversity, we nurture a culture of constant learning and optimal performance. We are building a working environment where everybody belongs.

Let’s continue the conversation and discuss how MCI can support your future event, marketing and engagement goals in a sustainable way. Shape Your Tomorrow with MCI.

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) is proud to be the national sponsor of the Banksia Sustainability Awards, Australia’s longest running and most prestigious sustainability awards.

For MLA and the Australian red meat and livestock industry, sustainability is the production of livestock in a way that is environmentally, socially, and financially responsible with respect to our people, our animals, our natural resources and climate, today and for future generations.

Our research and development investments are focused on demonstrating that sustainability goes hand in hand with productivity and long-term business resilience. Our industry has important responsibilities in providing high quality nutritional

food and contributing to global food security; sustainably managing vast tracts of our natural resources; and playing our part in arresting global warming and becoming part of the climate solution. And our ambitious targets of achieving carbon neutrality by 2030 and being the trusted source of the highest quality protein aligns with our responsibilities and contributions to society.

MLA congratulates all finalists including four finalists from the Australian red meat and livestock industry selected from a record number of entries - HW Greenham, Leather Cattle Co, Future Feed and Paradigm Foods. We also congratulate all winners, including Paradigm Foods in taking out the Marketing and Communications Award for their Roots Regenerative brand.

We congratulate the Banksia Awards on their latest success and look forward to continuing our strong relationship into 2024.

Sponsor of the Sustainable Tourism Award

Tourism Australia is the founding partner for the Banksia Foundation Sustainable Tourism Award.

As the tourism industry emerges in recovery and rebuild mode from the pandemic, this award recognises and rewards outstanding achievements in championing the protection, conservation, and regeneration of the diverse natural environments that make Australia so appealing to travellers. Protecting the natural environment across Australia whilst securing, nurturing, and supporting the economic and physical wellbeing of community and culture, both Indigenous and local.

In short, the award recognises those tourism businesses that are nurturing and protecting the very things our visitors within and to Australia travel for.

Banksia Sustainability Awards Honour Roll

2022

Banksia Agriculture and Development Award Planet Protector Packaging, NSW

Banksia Ethical Sourcing Award ZENNA LATEX MATTRESS, NSW

Banksia Circular Transition Award Ecologiq, VIC

Banksia Future Cities Award ACT Government, ACT

Banksia Health and Wellbeing Award Primary & Community Care Services Ltd, NSW

Banksia Sustainable Toursim Award Lady Elliot Island Eco Resort, QLD

Banksia Biodiversity Award Sydney Institute of Marine Science, NSW

Banksia Clean Technology Award Degnan Constructions, NSW

Banksia Communication For Impact Award The Blue Tribe Company, NSW

Banksia Diversity Award L'Oreal Australia, VIC

Banksia Net Zero Action Award Lion Pty Limited, NSW

Banksia Youth as Our Changemakers Award Sascha Rust, VIC

Banksia Large Business Transformation Award Officeworks, VIC

Banksia Small Medium Enterprise Transformation Award Enable Social Enterprises Limted, VIC

Banksia Ignite Award Samsara Eco, NSW

Banksia Gold Award Planet Protector Packaging, NSW

2020

Minister’s Award for the Environment World’s Biggest Garage Sale in partnership with Officeworks, QLD

Banksia Research & Academia Award

The University of Melbourne and The Place Agency Consortium, VIC

Banksia Community and Charity Award Millennium Kids Inc., WA

Banksia Govenrment Award

Environment And Liveability Strategy – Sunshine Coast Council, QLD

Banksia Large Business Award Icon Water, ACT

Banksia Medium Business Award

Arkadia – Breathe Architecture in partnership with DKO Architecture, Oculus, VIC

Banksia Not For Profit & NGO Award

OzHarvest FEAST (Food Education And Sustainability Training) Program, NSW

Banksia Small Business Award Yume Food, VIC

Banksia Gold Award Icon Water, ACT

2019

Minister’s Award for the Environment Substation33, QLD

Banksia Research & Academia Award

Monash University Master of Environment and Sustainability, VIC

Banksia Community Award Tiny Trowel, VIC

Banksia Govenrment Award

Mary Cairncross Scenic Reserve - BioBlitz 2019 by Sunshine Coast Council, QLD

Banksia Indigenous Award

“Littlewell” Mingenew Aboriginal Reserve Group in partnership with Thomas Cameron. Indigenous Community Volunteer, Lotterywest, Woolworth and Mingenew Shire, WA

Banksia Large Business Award

Digital Owl - Saving Our Species with Drones and Artificial Intelligence by Fujitsu Australia Limited in partnership with Saving our SpeciesNSW Government, NSW

Banksia Medium Business Award

Our People And Planet Program by Fun Over Fifty, QLD

Banksia Not For Profit & NGO Award

Building Better: Driving Sustainability In Infrastructure by ISCA – Infrastructure Sustainability Council of Australia, NSW

Banksia Small Business Award How Now Dairy, VIC Walk a Little Lighter by Spell & The Gypsy, NSW

Banksia Gold Award

ISCA – Infrastructure Sustainability Council of Australia, NSW

2018

Minister’s Award for the Environment Greening Australia, QLD

Banksia Research & Academia Award

Monash Sustainable Development Institute, VIC

Banksia Community Award

The NatureMapr Network in partnership with Atlas of Life in the Coastel Wilderness, NSW

Banksia Govenrment Award

Lord Howe Island - Board Protecting Paradise, Lord Howe Island Board, NSW

Banksia Indigenous Award

Revitalising Remote West Arnhem, Warddeken Land Management LTD, NT

Banksia Individual Award

Teaspoon of Change, d’Arcy Lunn, SA

Banksia Large BusinessAward

Restoring Australia, Officeworks in partnership with Greening Australia, VIC

Bank Australia Conservation Reserve Ten Year Strategy 'Reimagining the Future', Bank Australia in partnership with Greening Australia and Trust for Nature, VIC

Banksia Media Award

Blue the Film, in partnership with the Living Blue Guide

Banksia Medium Award

Biopak's Commitment to the Circular Economy, Biopak, NSW

Glamcorner, NSW

Banksia Not For Profit & NGO Award

Green Star by Green Building Council of Australia, Green Building Council of Australia, NSW

Banksia Small Business Award

Crystal Creek Meadow, NSW

Banksia Gold Award

Lord Howe Island - Board Protecting Paradise, Lord Howe Island Board, NSW2017

Minister’s Award for the Environment Sundrop Farms, SA

Banksia Communication for Change Award

War on Waste by KEO Films Australia in partnership with Screen Australia, ABCTV and ScreenNSW, NSW

Banksia Food for Sustainable Thought Award Cullen Wines, WA

Banksia Indigenous Leadership for Sustainability Award

Winya Indigenous Furniture Pty Ltd, NSW

Banksia Large Business Sustainability Leadership Award AccorHotels, NSW

Banksia Leadership in the Circular

Economy Award

Yarra Valley Water – Converting Waste to Energy, VIC

Banksia Natural Capital Award

Murray-Darling Basin Balanced Water Fund by The Nature Conservancy Australia in partnership with Murray-Darling Wetlands Working Group and Kilter Rural, VIC

Banksia Small to Medium Business Sustainability Leadership Award Austral Fisheries, WA

Banksia Smart Award Sundrop Farms, SA

Banksia Sustainable Cities Award

Fitzroy Gardens Redevelopment by City of Melbourne

Banksia Sustainable and Resilient Communities Award

Reaching 100% with Australia’s First Commercially Operating Community Mini Grid by Totally Renewable Yackandandah in partnership with AusNet Services, VIC

Banksia Gold Award

War on Waste by KEO Films Australia in partnership with Screen Australia, ABCTV and ScreenNSW, NSW

2016

The Environment Minister’s AwardCommunity Environmental Leadership Dr Tony Parkers, NSW

The Environment Minister’s AwardResearch & Science

Feral Scan by the Invasive Animals Cooperative Research Centre, ACT

Banksia International Award Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Australia

Banksia Communication for Change Award

John West Australia: Committed to a Sustainable Seafood Future, VIC

Banksia Food for Sustainable Thought Award Natural Evolution, QLD

Banksia Indigenous Leadership for Sustainability Award AshOil, WA

Banksia Large Business Sustainability Leadership Award Kathmandu

Banksia Leadership in the Circular Economy Award TIC Group, VIC

Banksia Mindful Movement Award Sendle, NSW

Banksia Natural Capital Award

The Yarra Yarra Biodiversity Corridor by Carbon Neutral in Partnership with Auscarbon, WA

Banksia Small to Medium Business Sustainability Leadership Award

The Farmer’s Place, VIC

Banksia Smart Award Infratech Industries, NSW

Banksia Sustainable Cities Award

The 202020 Vision

Banksia Sustainable and Resilient Communities Award

The Manymak Energy Efficiency Project Consortium, NT

Banksia International Award

Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Director, Global Change Institute and Professor of Marine Science at The University of Queensland

2015

Education for Sustainability Award

ResourceSmart Schools by Sustainability Victoria, VIC

Food for Sustainable Thought Award Australian Dairy Industry Council, VIC

Indigenous Leadership for Sustainability Award Lirrwi Yolngu Tourism Aboriginal Corporation, NT Innovator of the Year Award

The Carnegie Wave Energy Project, WA

Large Business Sustainability Leadership Award Australia Post, VIC

Mindful Movement Award

UNSW Solar Racing Team Sunswift, NSW

Natural Capital Award

Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project by Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Services, TAS

Small to Medium Business Sustainability Leadership Award Kalleske Wines, SA

Smart Technology Award

Sustainable Flood Management Strategy by City of Gold Coast, QLD

Sustainability in Design, Build: Buildings, Landscapes and Infrastructure Award Barangaroo Reserve by Lendlease, NSW

Sustainability in Design, Build: Products Award Fieldtech Solutions, VIC

Sustainable Communities Award Grown and Gathered, VIC

Sustainable Water Management Award

Managing the Swan River during the development of Elizabeth Quay by Leighton Broad, WA

The Environment Minister’s Award for a Cleaner Environment

Allen Riseley, VIC

Emirates One&Only Wolgan Valley, NSW

The Richard Pratt-Banksia CEO Award Mark Ryan, Tassal, TAS

Banksia Gold Award Kalleske Wines, SA

Banksia International Award Paul Polman, CEO of Unilever

Local Government Sustainability

ACT Solar Auction ACT Environment and Planning Directorate, ACT

Large Business Sustainability Leadership The GPT Group, NSW

Innovation in Social Infrastructure > $100 Million

Making it exemplar- the North West Rail Link Transport for NSW

Leadership in Citizenship and Communities Garage Sale Trail Garage Sale Trail Foundation, NSW

Innovator of the Year Better Buildings Partnership Better Buildings Partnership, NSW

Education for Sustainability

The Liveability Real Estate Framework- Training and Tools for the Next Generation of Real Estate LJ Hooker Corporate, NSW

Indigenous Leadership for Sustainability Indigenous Biocultural Knowledge (IBK) Working

Group ACEAS, NSW

Environment Minister's Award for a Cleaner Environment

Millicent Mill's Commitment to a Sustainable Regional Community Kimberly-Clark Australia and New Zealand, SA

Natural Capital

Tasmanian Midlands Bush Heritage Australia, VIC In partnership with Tasmanian Land Conservancy

The Richard Pratt – Banksia CEO Award Damien Walsh, Managing Director bankmecu, VIC

Sustainable Water Management

The Barwon Water Biosolids Management Plenary Group, VIC

Product Sustainability – through design, manufacture and use Fostering a climate of collaboration to transform road maintenance problems into an environmentally, financially and socially sustainable solution EarthCo Projects Pty Ltd, VIC

Small to Medium Business Sustainability Leadership Psaros-Leading By Doing Psaros, WA

Banksia Gold Award

ACT Solar Auction ACT Environment and Planning Directorate, ACT

Banksia International Award

Sean Willmore, Founder of The Thin Green Line Foundation

2013

Innovation Award

Yun Liu The Australian National University, ACT

Leading in Sustainability - Setting the Standard for Large Organisations Award Leading in Essentials for a Better Life -Kimberly-Clark Australia and New Zealand, NSW

Leading in Sustainability - Setting the Standard for Small to Medium Businesses Award

Australian Ethical: Australia's Only Ethical Superannuation And Investment Fund Australian Ethical, NSW

Built Environment

Harmonious Manmade Landscapes Award-Global GreenTag Product Certification System Global GreenTag Pty Ltd, QLD

Indigenous Award

Caring for Country Award-Torres Strait Regional Authority (TSRA) Torres Strait Regional Authority (TSRA), QLD

Local Government Sustainability Award

Sustainability at Sunshine Coast: It's who we are, it's what we do Sunshine Coast Council, QLD

The Richard Pratt – Banksia CEO Award

Ravi Naidu, leadership for a cleaner planet Cooperative Research Centre for Contamination Assessment and Remediation of the Environment, SA

Energy Efficiency and Carbon Management Award

Climate Wizard Seeley International, SA

wThe GPT Group Community Grant

Wadawurrung Dya Baap Ngobeeyt Cultural Heritage Mapping & Management Project

Wathaurung Aboriginal Corporation, VIC

Water - Our Most Precious Resource Award

Restoring the balance - The Hattah Lakes environmental watering program Mallee Catchment Management Authority, VIC

Agriculture and Food - From Paddock to Plate

Sustainably AwardFrom Paddock to Plate to Paddock Cecconi's Cantina, VIC

Business and Not-for-ProfitsIn Collaboration Award'Magic Wand' Oiled Penguin Recovery Technology Phillip Island Nature Parks VIC

Climate Adaptation Award

City of Melbourne's Urban Landscape Adaptation Program City of Melbourne, VIC

Waste Minimisation Award

Dunlop Flooring - Waste minimization Dunlop Flooring, VIC

Land and Biodiversity - Preserving Our Ecosystems Award

Gondwana Link: 1000kms of goodwill and good work Gondwana Link Ltd, WA

Education - Raising the Bar Award Rio Tinto Naturescape Kings Park Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority, WA

The Richard Pratt – Banksia CEO AwardAustralia's leading change agent Ravi Naidu, leadership for a cleaner planet Cooperative Research Centre for Contamination Assessment and Remediation of the Environment, SA

Banksia Gold Award

Torres Strait Regional Authority (TSRA), QLD

Banksia International Award Jochen Zeitz

2012

Education Award

Raising the Bar Target 100 - Meat & Livestock Australia, NSW

Leading in Sustainability

Setting the Standard for Small to Medium Businesses Ecoburbia - Ecoburbia, WA

Leading in Sustainability

Setting the Standard for Large Organisations Here for the Long Haul, Qantas, NSW

Water

Our Most Precious Resource Dewfish Demonstration Reach - The Fish are Back! - Condamine Alliance, QLD

Agriculture and Food

From Paddock to Plate Sustainably OzHarvest - OzHarvest Ltd, NSW

Clean Technology

Harnessing Opportunities

SF6 Recycling Plant - ABB Australia Pty Limited, NSW

Indigenous Award - Caring for Country I-Tracker Initiative: Best Practice Tools and Partnerships for Indigenous Land and Sea Management - North Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance Ltd, NT Built Environment - Harmonious Manmade Landscapes

Darling Quarter and Commonwealth Bank Place - Lend Lease and Commonwealth Bank, NSW

Land and Biodiversity - Preserving Our Ecosystems

The I-Tracker Initiative: New tools and Knowledge for Better ConservationNorth Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance Ltd., NT

The GE Eco Innovation Award for Individual Excellence Professor Veena Sahajwalla - The Eco Alchemist - The University of New South Wales, NSW

The GPT Group Community Grant

Bookend Trust, TAS

Banksia Gold Award

Target 100 - Meat & Livestock Australia, NSW

2011

Education Award - Raising the Bar The Vortex Centre - Water Wonders in a Building That Teaches - Gippsland Water, VIC

Indigenous - Caring for Country West Arnhem Land Fire Abatement Partnership: a 140% success - Warddeken Land Management for WALFA Partners, NT

Land and Biodiversity - Preserving Our Ecosystems

Fox-Free Phillip Island Victoria, AustraliaPhillip Island Nature Parks, VIC

Water - Our Most Precious Resource

Gippsland Water Factory - A New Way to Care for Water - Gippsland Water, VIC

Agriculture and Food - From Paddock to Plate Sustainably Gaia Banana Farming: For Healthy Soils, Wetlands and Great Barrier Reef - Gaia Farms, QLD

Built Environment - Harmonious Manmade Landscapes Hepburn Community Wind FarmHepburn Wind, VIC

Leading in Sustainability - Setting the Standard for Large Organisations Sustainability is Good for BusinessFujitsu, VIC

Leading in Sustainability - Setting the Standard for Small Organisations Greening The Wharf - Sydney Theatre Company, NSW

Clean Technology - Harnessing Opportunities

BlueGen - Clean Power For Your HomeCeramic Fuel Cells Ltd., VIC

Transportation - Mindful Movement

Making Electric Cars Make Sense - Better Place Australia, VIC

Banksia People’s Choice Award

Don’t Palm Us Off - Zoos Victoria

Banksia Gold Award

Gippsland Water Factory – A New Way to Care for Water – Gippsland Water, VIC2010

Education

Switch Your Thinking! Program -South East Regional Energy Group, WA Water

Bringing Back the Fish - Industry and Investment NSW

Land and Biodiversity

Coorong, Lower Lakes and Murray Mouth - a Government / Community Partnership to ensure a Future for the Lower Murray - Department of Environment & Natural Resources South Australia, SA

Indigenous - ‘Caring for Country’

Dhimurru Aboriginal Corporation - Dhimurru Aboriginal Corporation, NT Built Environment

Grocon Pixel Building - Grocon, VIC

Clean Technology

Mini-Hydro Project - Melbourne Water Corporation, VIC

Large Business Sustainability

Fuji Xerox Australia - Fuji Xerox, Australia

Small and Medium Enterprises

Business Sustainability

A Family Commitment to SustainabilityTaylors Wines, NSW

Agriculture and Food

Project Catalyst - The Coca-Cola Foundation, Reef Catchments, WWF, QLD

Transportation, Warehousing & Logistics Flexicar - Flexicar, VIC

Banksia People’s Choice Award

Kids Teaching Kids - Firestarter Pty Ltd, VIC

Banksia Gold Award

Yellow Crazy Ant Management ProjectDhimurru Aboriginal Corporation, NT -

2009

Education

The Green Steps Program - Monash University Sustainability Institute, VIC

Water

A Voice for Water - South East Queensland Healthy Waterways Partnership, QLD

Land and Biodiversity

ACT Land Keepers - Greening Australia Capital Region, ACT

Indigenous - ‘Caring for Country’

Kimberley Toad Busters’ Cane Toad Education Campaign - Kimberley Toad Busters, WA

Built Environment

Melbourne Convention & Exhibition CentreMelbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre, VIC

Eco Innovation

None awarded in 2009

Large Business Sustainability

The GPT Group - The GPT Group, NSW

Small and Medium Enterprises Business

Sustainability Ferguson Plarre BakehousesFerguson Plarre Bakehouses P/L, VIC

Agriculture and Food

Giving Vegemite a Sustainable FutureKRAFT Foods, VIC

Environmental Services

Sustainable Events Platform - Sustainable Living Foundation, VIC

Banksia People’s Choice Award

Food Connect - Food Connect, QLD

Banksia Gold Award Ferguson Plarre Bakehouse, VIC

2008

Built Environment

Trevor Pearcy House - Australian Ethical Investment Ltd., ACT

Climate

Addressing Climate Change - Investa Property Group

Community

Kororoit Creek Waterway RehabilitationFriends of Lower Kororoit Creek Inc., VIC

Eco Innovation

Dulux Powder Coatings & CSIRO “100% ecosustainable coatings technology” - Dulux Powder Coatings, VIC (Partner - CSIRO Division of Materials Science & Engineering)

Education

Earth Hour Australia - WWF Australia (Partners - Fairfax Media, Leo Burnett)

Indigenous “NAILSMA Dugong and Marine Turtle

Project” - North Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance (Partners

- Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Savannas Management, Kimberley Land Council, Northern Land Council, Carpentaria Land Council Aboriginal Corporation, Cape York Balkanu Development Corporation, Torres Strait Regional Authority)

Land and Biodiversity

BIGG - Biodiversity in Grain and Graze - Kiriganai Research Pty. Ltd. and University of Tasmania, TAS (Partners - Meat & Livestock Australia, Grains R & D Corporation, Australian Wool Innovations, Land & Water Australia and the 62 member organisations of the Grain & Graze Program)

Local Government

Managing Drought in the City of ParksCity of Melbourne, VIC

Business Sustainability Award

ETIKO Fair Trade - ESP P/L., VIC

Water

Vision for the Broken River BasinGoulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority, VIC

Banksia People’s Choice Award

Rouse Hill Town Centre - The GPT Group, NSW

Banksia Gold Award

WWF Australia – Earth Hour Australia

2007

Built Environment

National Lifestyle Villages National Lifestyle Villages, WA

Climate Award

GridX MiniGrid Tri-Generation System at Mirvac Vision Estate Glenfield Mirvac in Partnership with GridX, NSW

Community

Kimberley Toad Busters Inc, WA

Eco Innovation

PaintbackTM - Dulux, Bunnings, Sustainability

Victoria and Chemsal in Partnership with Bluescope Steel and Steel Can Recycling Council, VIC

Education GreenHome - Australian Conservation Foundation, NSW

Indigenous

Carpentaria Ghost Nets Programme - Northern Gulf Resource Management Group, QLD

Land and Biodiversity

Diversity in a Piped System Project - Birchip Cropping Group (BCG), VIC

Local Government

“Retrofitting Randwick” - Randwick City Council, NSW

Sustainability

Westpac: Unlocking Value

Water

Revive Our Wetlands - Conservation Volunteers Australia and BHP Billiton

Banksia People’s Choice Award

The Falls Festival

Banksia Gold Award

WESTPAC: UnlockingValue -

2006

Built Environment

Szencorp Takes Sustainable Buildings to the Next Level at 40 Albert Road - Szencorp, VIC

Climate Award

National Green Power Accreditation ProgramDepartment of Energy Utilities and Sustainability, NSW

Eco Innovation

The “ Waterless Wok” Stove, Sydney Water’s

“Every Drop Counts” Business ProgramDepartment of Energy Utilities and Sustainability, NSW

Land and Biodiversity

Back From The Brink: Saving Victoria’s

Threatened Orchids - Department of Sustainability and Environment, VIC

Sustainability

Visualising Our Environmental FootprintAustralian Arrow Pty Ltd, VIC

Water

Carpentaria Ghost Nets Programme - Northern Gulf Resource Management Group, QLD

Minerals

Sustainable Mining at Tiwest CooljarlooTiwest, WA

Community The Tree Scheme, Community Based Environmental Initiative - Trees For Life, SA

Education

Village Green’s Sustainable Business Management Model - Village Green Environmental Solutions, VIC

Local Government

Currie Sewage Treatment Wetlands - King Island Council in Partnership with Syrinx Environmental P/L, TAS

Media

Climate Change: Icons Under Threat - Melissa Fyfe and Simon O’Dwyer in Partnership with The Age Newspaper, VIC

Banksia Gold Award

Visualising our Environmental FootprintAustralian Arrow Pty Ltd, VIC

2005

Environmental Leadership In the Community Award Men of the Trees WA (Inc), WA

Business Environmental Responsibility and Leadership Award

Sustaining Excellence at Toyota Australia, VIC

Government Leading by Example for a Sustainable Future

Fuelling the Future, Driving Sustainable Transport Energy in Western Australia, WA

Environmental Leadership in the Rural Sector Award

Sustainability through Open Inquiry at Random Valley, WA

Sustainable Development Leadership in the Minerals Industry Award Bengalla Mining Company’s Culture of Sustainability, NSW

Environmental Leadership in Protecting the Bush, Land and Waterways Award Bush For Life: Training and Supporting Volunteers to Care for Bushland, SA

Leadership in Protecting Coastal and Marine Environments Award

Living On The Edge, VIC

Environmental Leadership in Infrastructure and Services Award SLIVER Cells, a Breakthrough in Solar Technology, ANU and Origin Energy, ACT

Leadership in Sustainable Buildings Award

The Puzzle of Sustainable Commercial Development: ‘National@Docklands’, VIC

Leadership in Financial Services and Sustainability Award

Different Cars, Same Colour - mecu goGreen® Car Loan, VIC

Environmental Leadership Education and Training Award

The Natural Advantage of Nations, Book and Training Initiatives, SA

Environmental Leadership in Media Communications Award

Marine National Parks and Marine Sanctuaries Media Communications, VIC

Banksia Gold Award Mecu GoGreen Car Loan, VIC

2004

Environmental Leadership in the Community Saving the Paroo River, NSW

Business Environmental Responsibility and Leadership Visy Industries: “We Make It. We Take It”, VIC

Government Leading by Example for a Sustainable Future

The Great Barrier Reef Representative Areas Program: An Ecosystem Approach to Protecting Biodiversity, QLD

Environmental Leadership in the Rural Community Riverside Sanctuary, WA

Sustainable Development Leadership in the Minerals Industry

Wesfarmers Premier Coal, Leading Sustainable Mining Practices, WA

Environmental Leadership in Protecting Bush, Land and Waterways Saving the Paroo River, NSW

Environmental Leadership in Protecting Coastal and Marine Markwells Bait Tackles Killer Plastic Bags, QLD

Environmental Leadership in Infrastructure and Service Thiess, Karuah Bypass, NSW

Leadership in Sustainable Product Design Charlie Carp Fertilizer, NSW

Leadership in Sustainable Buildings Darebin City Council, VIC

Leadership in Socially Responsible Investment Investa Property Group, VIC

Environmental Leadership in Communications Watch Every Drop, Drought Marketing Campaign, Gold Coast Water, QLD

Banksia Gold Award

Visy Industries: “We Make It. We Take It”

2003

Environmental Leadership in the Community Birds Australia Gluepot Reserve, SA

Business Environmental Responsibility and Leadership

VicSuper Contributing to a Sustainable Future, VIC

Government Leading by Example for a Sustainable Future Solar in Schools, Sustainable Energy Development Authority, NSW

Environmental Leadership in the Rural Sector Plumbago Station, SA

Sustainable Development Leadership in the Minerals Industry

BHP Billiton, Transforming Policy into Sustainable Outcomes, WA

Environmental Leadership in Protecting Bush, Land and Waterways Control of the Yellow Crazy Ant on Christmas Island - Parks Australia and Monash University, VIC

Environmental Leadership in Protecting Coastal and Marine Environments

The Marine and Coastal Community Network, QLD

Environmental Leadership in Infrastructure and Service Douglas Shire Council, SA

Leadership in Sustainable Product Design

The Orbital Combustion Process 2-Stroke Motorcycle Technology - Orbital Engine Corporation Limited, WA

Leadership in Sustainable Buildings 60L Green Building, Spowers Victoria, Green Building Partnership, Lincolne Scott, VIC

Leadership in Socially Responsible Investment

VicSuper: Sustainability Investing for a Sustainable Future, VIC

Environmental Leadership in Communications ‘Your Home?’ Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology, Sydney, The Australian Greenhouse Office, NSW

2002

Environmental Leadership in the Community Central Hopkins Land Protection Association, VIC

Corporate Responsibility and Leadership City West Water’s Path to Sustainability, VIC

Government Leading By Example

Landcom Leading by Example, NSW

Bush, Land and Waterways Greening Australia, Bidgee Banks, NSW

Coastal and Marine

Phillip Island, Victoria, Protecting Little Penguins on the Summerland Peninsula, VIC

Buildings

City of Melville, Piney Lakes Environmental Education Centre, WA

Infrastructure and Services

The Alcoa Portland SPL Treatment Process, VIC

Manufactured Products

Visy Closed Loop and Qantas, VIC

Socially Responsible Investment Australian Ethical Investment, VIC

Communications

Parks Victoria, Healthy Parks Healthy People, VIC

Outstanding Individual Achievement

Ian Lawrence

Community Group Achievement

Useless Loop Community Biosphere Project Group for ‘The Heirisson Prong Project’, WA

Corporate Responsibility and Leadership Stanwell Corporation Ltd, QLD

Government/ Non Profit: Leading by Example Sustainable Energy Development Authority (SEDA), NSW

Small Business Responsibility and Leadership

Abbotsleigh Citrus Pty Ltd, QLD

Bush, Land and Waterways National Parks and Wildlife, SA

Coastal and Marine

WWF Australia Dhimurru Land Management

Aboriginal Corporation Conservation Volunteers Australia NT Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries, NT

Buildings

The University Of Newcastle, NSW

Infrastructure and Services Olympic Coordination Authority, NSW

Manufactured Products AQ Australia, SA

Socially Responsible Investment

Westpac Investment Management/Monash University, VIC

Communications

Sustainable Energy Enterprise Developments P/L: SunRace, VIC

2000

Communications

CSIRO Publishing, VIC Community Groups WildCare Incorporated, TAS

Corporate Environmental Leadership Stanwell Corporation Ltd, QLD

Education and Training Category Water Corporation of West Australia, WA

Environmental Business Practice Riverland Oil Seed Processors, VIC

Flora and Fauna Conservation Category Olympic Co-ordination Authority, NSW Innovation Award Bill Hicks, NSW

Land, Bush and Waterways

Goulburn Murray Water, VIC

Local Agenda 21 Achievement Award Brighton Council, TAS

Research and Development

Baleen Filters Pty Ltd, SA

Resource Conservation and Waste Minimisation

The Australian Grand Prix Corporation, VIC

1999

Community

The Superb Parrot Project, VIC

Education/Training

Helen Tyas Tunggal, NSW

Environmental Business Practice Pacific Power, VIC

Communication

Ian Henschke, ABCTV ‘Landline’

Flora and Fauna Conservation

Victorian Peregrine Project, VIC

Land and Waterways Management

Andrew McLennan, VIC

Innovation

Coca-Cola Amatil (Aust) Pty Ltd, NSW

Resource Conservation and Waste Minimisation

Couran Cove Resort, South Stradbroke Island, QLD

Construction Practices

Abigroup Contractors Pty Ltd, NSW

Coastal and Marine Environments

CRC Reef Research Centre, QLD

Research and Development Award

Environmental Solutions International, WA

Banksia Sustainability Awards Judges

The Banksia Judging and Awards Governance Committee is heavily underpinned by the dedicated individuals that give up their time and expertise in order to review each entry. These individuals have been selected for their expertise and their commitment to Banksia’s mission of identifying and celebrating Australian leadership.

The Banksia Foundation would like to thank our judges - over 50 of thembased right around Australia. These judges are independent to the Banksia Board and Staff. It is of the utmost importance for the Foundation to maintain the independence of the judging process and this is fundamental to the integrity of the Banksia Awards. The judges are all specialists in their field and the judging panels are constructed so that each judge is assigned to a category, which matches their expertise. All potential conflicts of interest are declared from the outset and these judges do not take part in that particular entry’s assessment.

Banksia would like to acknowledge our Head of the Audit and Risk Committee, Jo Cain. Her commitment and support along with the other Audit and Risk Committee members is invaluable and ensures that we maintain a viable, efficient and reputable judging process.

On behalf of the Banksia Foundation we would like to thank the following individuals who have provided their time and expertise in judging the 34th National Banksia Sustainability Awards.

Amber Beaumont

Andrew Block

Andrew Johnson

Angela Crossland

Anne Astin

Barbara Nebel

Belinda Chellingworth

Bobby Ali-Khan

Chiara Pacifici

Chris Currie

Damon Cuming

Digby Hall

Edward Cotter

Erandi Samarakoon

Francis Madigan

Garth Lamb

Hayley Purbrick

Iain Smale

Izabella Kobylanski

Jack Noonan

Jack O’Donoghue

Jacqui Bonnitcha

Jeff Oatman

Jeffrey Robinson

Jo Osorio

John Pabon

Julie Boulton

Kate Harris

Katherine Featherstone

Laura Hamilton-O'Hara

Liane Rossler

Lucinda Corrigan

Mark Thomson

Meredith Banks

Monica Richter

Nadya Krienke-Becker

Peter Olsen

Pip Marks

Priya Gandhi

Rob Catchlove

Robin Mellon

Samantha Jewel

Sasha Trpkovski

Sheree Marris

Shona Cameron

Simon Boughey

Stacey Daniel

Stephanie Rich

Sue King

Thomas Bauer

Tom Davies

Tom Mallet

Turlough Guerin

Valentina Zarew

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