Business Council of Australia

The Business Council of Australia (BCA) is a lobby group for the largest corporations operating in Australia.

In a 2009 report the Climate Institute stated that:


 * ''"Over the last twelve months the Business Council of Australia (BCA) and several of its big polluting members have sought to stall and undermine Australia’s progress to a low-carbon economy.


 * ''The BCA has successfully lobbied for special treatment for a select group of its members under the Government’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS), securing unlimited free permits for Big Polluters who need only make minimal carbon efficiency improvements. Initial estimates are that $1.9 billion in 2010 alone will be effectively redirected from public funds and given to just 18 members of the BCA in the form of free permits.


 * ''Meanwhile, many of the businesses who have been lobbying the hardest for free permits are sitting on millions of dollars of potential savings through affordable energy efficiency measures."

Personnel

 * Michael Chaney - President (John Schubert is a former president)
 * Hugh Morgan - former President
 * Paul Barratt - former executive director
 * Geoff J. Dixon
 * Charlie Lenegan
 * Melinda A. Cilento - former chief economist (2002-10)

Members
The membership of the BCA comprises the chief executives of approximately 100 of Australia's largest companies. At at April 2005 members included:


 * AAPC Limited
 * ABB Australia Pty Limited
 * ABN AMRO
 * Accenture
 * ACI Packaging
 * Alcoa World Alumina Australia
 * Alinta Limited
 * Allens Arthur Robinson
 * Alumina Limited
 * Amcor Limited
 * ANZ Banking Group Limited
 * Australia Post
 * Australian Gas Light Company
 * Australian Stock Exchange
 * AWB Limited
 * Bendigo Bank Group
 * BHP Billiton
 * BlueScope Steel Limited
 * Blake Dawson Waldron
 * BOC Limited
 * Boeing Australia
 * Boral Limited
 * BP Australasia
 * Brambles
 * Caltex Australia Limited
 * Coca-Cola Amatil Limited
 * Coles Myer Ltd
 * Commonwealth Bank of Australia
 * Computershare Limited
 * Corrs Chambers Westgarth
 * Crane Group Limited
 * Credit Suisse First Boston
 * CSC Australia Pty Ltd
 * CSR Limited
 * David Jones Limited
 * Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
 * Deutsche Bank AG
 * DuPont Australia & New Zealand Limited
 * EDS
 * ENERGEX Limited
 * EnergyAustralia
 * Ernst & Young Australia
 * ExxonMobil Australia Pty Ltd
 * Foodland Associated Limited
 * Foster's Group Limited
 * Freehills
 * Goldman Sachs JBWere
 * Hanson Australia
 * Holden Ltd
 * IBM Australia/New Zealand
 * ING Australia
 * Insurance Australia Group
 * James Hardie Industries NV
 * JP Morgan
 * KPMG
 * Kraft Foods Limited
 * Leighton Holdings Limited
 * Lend Lease
 * Macquarie Bank Limited
 * Mallesons Stephen Jaques
 * Mayne Group Limited
 * McDonald's Australia
 * MBF Australia Limited
 * Merrill Lynch International (Australia) Limited
 * Microsoft Australia
 * Minter Ellison
 * Mirvac Group
 * Mitsui & Co. (Australia) Ltd
 * National Australia Bank Group
 * OneSteel Limited
 * Oracle Corporation Australia
 * Orica Limited
 * Origin Energy Limited
 * P&O Australia Limited
 * PaperlinX Limited
 * Perpetual Trustees Australia Limited
 * PricewaterhouseCoopers
 * Promina Group Limited
 * Publishing & Broadcasting Limited
 * Qantas Airways Ltd
 * ResMed Holdings Limited
 * Rio Tinto
 * Shell Australia Limited
 * Sims Group Limited
 * Singtel Optus Pty Ltd
 * Smorgon Steel Group Ltd
 * St George Bank Limited
 * Stockland
 * Suncorp-Metway Ltd
 * Telecom New Zealand Limited
 * Telstra Corporation Limited
 * The Boston Consulting Group
 * The Communications Group
 * Toyota Motor Corporation Australia Limited
 * Transurban Limited
 * UBS Australia and New Zealand
 * Visy Industries
 * Wesfarmers Limited
 * Westpac Banking Corporation
 * WMC Resources Ltd
 * Woodside Energy
 * Woolworths Limited
 * WorleyParsons Limited
 * Zinifex Limited

Contact Details
Level 42, 120 Collins Street Melbourne, VIC 3000

GPO Box 1472, Melbourne, VIC 3001 Email: info AT bca.com.au Telephone: 03 8664 2664 Facsimile: 03 8664 2666 Web: http://www.bca.com.au

SourceWatch Resources

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