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        • Minutes of directors’ meetings: Minimising the risk
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        • Acting for You, February 2019
      • Volume 70 - Number 11
        • Don’t live in a glass house! Practical tips to get your house in order
        • Hayne royal commission interim report: Unclogging the central artery
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  • Governance Institute appoints new President and champion of whole-of-organisation governance

    01/12/2015

    Governance Institute of Australia is pleased to announce the appointment of Simon Pordage FGIA as its new national president for 2016.

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