2004-05 Annual Report - Australia Post

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The arts For the second year running, we supported a major national artistic project by way of our “gold partner” sponsorship of Opera Australia. Under this agreement, we are also principal sponsor of OzOpera, Opera Australia’s touring and education arm, which is responsible for regional, community and school-based projects and tours. OzOpera toured to 18 venues in Western Australia and the Northern Territory this year; performed before 80,000 primary school students in New South Wales and Victoria; and undertook three special performances for our staff and their families at the Melbourne Parcel Facility, the Sydney Parcel Facility and the Sydney West Letters Facility. We are a founding member of the Australian Business Arts Foundation and a supporter of many artistic companies and festivals, including the Bell Shakespeare Company, the Melbourne Theatre Company and the Noosa Long Weekend. Community groups and events We helped develop an Internetbased resource, the Marketing Media and Post Centre on the Our Community website (ourcommunity.com.au). The centre will help community groups build their media profile, expand their supporter base and increase the effectiveness of their direct mail campaigns. (Details of the sponsorship are included in the Mail Marketing section on p. 22.) We also support community organisations through the provision of the Charity Mail category of the letters service, which offers charities a reduction in the cost of their mailings. As part of the annual release of the Australian Legends stamp issue, we are the principal sponsor of Australia Day luncheons held across the nation. In 2005, the Legends award recognised six of Australia’s leading fashion designers. We again sponsored the Stawell Gift athletic carnival, a major national event held in rural Victoria. We also supported a wide range of youth sport programs, including a number in rural and regional areas, involving rugby league, Australian Rules football, cricket, golf, tennis and softball. Philanthropy Our major philanthropic endeavour this year involved a multi-faceted response to the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami that struck on Boxing Day 2004. We made a corporate donation of $250,000 to CARE Australia and also accepted (via our retail network) $1.46 million in public donations to CARE Australia’s tsunami appeal. In the immediate aftermath of the disaster we, together with Qantas, donated the services of an Australian air Express Boeing 727 plane to fly urgently required aid to the neediest areas of Indonesia. We also offered technical support and advice to postal administrations affected by the disaster. On top of these corporate initiatives, our employees organised a range of local facility-based fundraising activities on behalf of tsunami victims. We continued to support a number of Australian charities, through a combination of staff fundraising and corporate donations. In particular, staff in Queensland and in Melbourne’s Headquarters raised $60,000 as part of our Be Seen in Red and Green charity day. The money raised was donated to the Royal Flying Doctor Service, The Smith Family and the Starlight Foundation. For the sixth year in a row, we sponsored The Alannah and Madeline Foundation, a charity devoted to supporting child victims of violent crime and sudden family loss. COMMERCIAL SPONSORSHIP Our sponsorship of the Australian Olympic and Paralympic teams at the Athens Games provided commercial opportunities, especially through issuing 17 Australian Gold Medallist stamps, which became popular mementos of the Athens Olympics. During the year, we also became an official sponsor of the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games, where we will be a partner of the organising committee in handling ticketing, logistics, courier and postal services, as well as sponsoring the Australian team. We continued our sponsorship of the Australian Open tennis tournament. All commercial sponsorships are required to deliver positive return on investment and are not considered as community investments. Australia Post Annual Report 2004/05 Report of Operations Community | 47 |
| 48 | CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY ENVIRONMENT LEGISLATIVE COMPLIANCE Because our business operates in all Australian states and territories, we keep a watching brief over environmental legislation and regulations in all state and Federal jurisdictions. We elect to take the most stringent of legislation as our minimum standard, to ensure that we go beyond compliance. Environmental audits of our larger facilities are undertaken every two years. This year we audited 31 facilities, including all of our major facilities, and no material issues were identified. In 2004–05, there were no environmental penalties applied to our business in any jurisdiction. Following an external environmental review conducted in November 2003, we have been redeveloping our Environment Management System (EMS) to take a more risk-based approach to the management of environmental issues. While most of our environmental programs are still centrally managed, the new EMS will enable each facility to participate in monitoring and managing its own risks. Our major environmental risk arises from refuelling centres and underground storage tanks located at our major mail facilities. A review of our fuel management and storage equipment was conducted in 2003–04 and recommended the removal of refuelling equipment at 11 out of 19 sites. This year we hired an engineering company, ARUP Pty Ltd, to manage the decommissioning of fuel storage tanks and refuelling facilities at these 11 sites as well as the upgrading of refuelling facilities and generator tanks at the eight sites that are being retained. ARUP conducted detailed site inspections during the year and the works are scheduled to be complete by July 2007. A minor fuel leak was detected at one facility during the site inspections, so the tanks were immediately decommissioned and emptied and the adjacent pipes and pits were cleaned. THE SUSTAINABLE USE OF RESOURCES Our major corporate environmental impacts derive from the large amount of energy required to power our 1,273 facilities (and the equipment contained in them) and the fuel required to sustain our fleet of 10,561 vehicles. In the 2004 calendar year*, our business consumed 208,973,387 kilowatt hours of electricity, 110,798,270 megajoules of natural gas, 24,463,580 litres of diesel, and 5,952,080 litres of petrol. Our operations also created 203,739 cubic metres of waste, of which 39,790 cubic metres were recycled. We developed a national energy management program this year that will introduce energy-efficient changes to building infrastructure and reduce our energy usage over the next three years. Initiatives will include the introduction of motion detectors, light sensors, timers, power factor correction equipment, voltage reduction systems and triphosphor lamps. With this program now established, we expect to reduce our corporation’s energy consumption by 10 per cent over the next three years. (* Reporting for Greenhouse Challenge is based on calendar year, not financial year.) REDUCING EMISSIONS Over the last eight years, we have been an active, voluntary member of the Federal Government’s Greenhouse Challenge program. Our initiatives during that period have reduced our greenhouse gas emissions by 98,578 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent. In the 2004 calendar year, our Greenhouse Challenge initiatives reduced our greenhouse gas emissions by 17,150 tonnes of CO2 equivalent. Our corporation’s greenhouse gas emissions for 2004 totalled 339,050 tonnes of CO2 equivalent. Our energy management program is our most important new initiative in the area of emissions reduction. But we are also actively investigating other opportunities to reduce our greenhouse emissions, including the introduction of energy-efficient, Tonnes of CO2 per $million of revenue Note: The reporting period for Greenhouse Challenge data changed in 2003. As a result, the 2003 and 2004 information in this graph is based on data from the calendar year (rather than the financial year).
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