Chapter 1 - Overview of the inquiry and the UN SDGs

[1]        Journals of the Senate, No. 76—4 December 2017, pp. 2428–2429.

[2]        Journals of the Senate, No. 130—26 November 2018, p. 4228.

[3]        Adopted from the Brundtland Report in the 1987 United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development. Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) Youth Australia/Pacific, Submission 141, Attachment 1, p. 3.

[4]        UN, Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development—Resolution 70/1. Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 25 September 2015.

[5]        Jeffrey D. Sachs, The age of sustainable development, Columbia University Press, 2015, pp. 7, 481; UN, Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, p. 4.

[6]        Jon Lunn, Emma Downing and Lorna Booth, The Sustainable Development Goals and the post-2015 development agenda, House of Commons Library, briefing paper no. 7291, September 2015, p. 7.

[7]        For more information on the MDGs see: UN, Millennium Development Goals and Beyond 2015 http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/bkgd.shtml (accessed 15 August 2018).

[8]        CSIRO, Submission 85, p. 5.

[9]        Lunn et al, The SDGs and the post-2015 development agenda, p. 3.

[10]      Lunn et al, The SDGs and the post-2015 development agenda, p. 6; UN, 'My World', http://vote.myworld2015.org/ (accessed 24 April 2018).

[11]      UN, Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, p. 3.

[12]      Australian Government, Report on the Implementation of the SDGs, 2018, p. 7.

[13]      DFAT, Submission 60, p. 3.

[14]      DFAT, Submission 60, p. 3.

[15]      Submission 60, p. 3.

[16]      UN, Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, p. 34.

[17]      UN, Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, pp. 33–34.

[18]      HLPF 2019, http://sdg.iisd.org/events/high-level-political-forum-on-sustainable-development-hlpf-2019/ (accessed 27 September 2018).

[19]      UN, Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, p. 3.

[20]      DFAT, Submission 60, p. 3.

[21]      * Acknowledging that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is the primary international, intergovernmental forum for negotiating the global response to climate change.

[22]      UN, Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, p. 32.

[23]      UN, Work of the Statistical Commission pertaining to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development—Resolution 71/313, p. 2.

[24]      The indicator framework lists 244 indicators, however, nine of these are repeated under two or three targets, so there are 232 unique indicators. UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, (UN DESA) SDG Indicators, https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/indicators/indicators-list/ (accessed 28 November 2018).

[25]      Six indicators have components split across multiple tier classifications. UN DESA, Tier Classification for Global SDG Indicators, https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/iaeg-sdgs/tier-classification/ (accessed 7 January 2018); Australian Government, Tracking Australia's progress on the Sustainable Development Goals, DFAT, 2018, p. 7.

[26]      UN, Work of the Statistical Commission pertaining to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, p. 2.

[27]      International Women's Development Agency, Submission 98, p. 10.

[28]      UN, Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, p. 2.

[29]      UN, Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, p. 1.

[30]      UN, Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, pp. 7–8.

[31]      DFAT, Submission 60, p. 16.

[32]      UN, Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, p. 28.

[33]      DFAT, Financing the Sustainable Development Goals, http://dfat.gov.au/aid/topics/development-issues/2030-agenda/Pages/financing-the-sustainable-development-goals.aspx (accessed 24 April 2018); UN, Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development (Addis Ababa Action Agenda)—Resolution 69/313, Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 27 July 2015.

Chapter 2 - Benefits, opportunities and costs for Australia

[1]        Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), Submission 60, p. 3.

[2]        Australian Government, Report on the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, 2018, p. 7.

[3]        Submission 98, p. 4. See also Oxfam Australia, Submission 18, p. 45.

[4]        Submission 47, pp. 4–5.

[5]        'Keynote Address: 2^nd Australian Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Summit', Speech, Melbourne, 13 March 2018.

[6]        Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018, p. 17.

[7]        Report on the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, 2018, p. 6, [original emphasis removed].

[8]        Report on the Implementation of the SDGs, 2018, p. 6, [original emphasis removed].

[9]        Submission 18, p. 4.

[10]      National Congress of Australia's First Peoples, answer to question on notice, 7 December 2018 (received 20 December 2018), [p. 2]; Aunty Ruby Sims and Ms Donnell Davis, Submission 153.

[11]      National Congress of Australia's First Peoples, answer to question on notice, 7 December 2018 (received 20 December 2018), [p. 2]. 

[12]      UN, Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development—Resolution 70/1.

[13]      Submission 138, p. 7.

[14]      Submission 135, p. 7.

[15]      ACFID, Submission 135, p. 11.

[16]      Australian Government, Report on the Implementation of the SDGs, 2018, p. 7.

[17]      City of Melbourne, Submission 68, p. 3.

[18]      Submission 141, pp. 4–7.

[19]      Submission 136, p. 1.

[20]      Submission 93, p. 9.

[21]      Submission 141, pp. 4–7.

[22]      Submission 78, p. 4.

[23]      UN, Transforming our world, p. 12.

[24]      Transforming our world, pp. 3–4.

[25]      Submission 163, p. 8. See also Committee Hansard, 26 November 2018, p. 2.

[26]      Submission 25, p. 10.

[27]      Submission 47, p. 4.

[28]      Submission 80, [p. 1].

[29]      Submission 90, pp. 3–4.

[30]      Australasian College of Road Safety, Submission 160, p. 3.

[31]      Submission 17, p. 3.

[32]      Submission 17, p. 3.

[33]      Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, p. 10.

[34]      Submission 121, [p. 3].

[35]      Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 8.

[36]      Mr Allen, Professor Metternicht and Associate Professor Wiedmann, Submission 17, pp. 3–4.

[37]      Submission 55, p. 3. See also Ms Alice Ridge, Acting Director of Policy and Advocacy, ACFID, Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018, p. 52.

[38]      Submission 85, p. 5.

[39]      Submission 85, p. 14. See also International Council for Science, A Guide to SDG Interactions: from Science to Implementation, D.J. Griggs, M. Nilsson, A. Stevance, D. McCollum (eds), International Council for Science, Paris, 2017.

[40]      Submission 135, p. 7. See also Centre for Policy Development (CPD), Submission 129, [pp. 2, 7]; Mr Lachlan Hunter, National Executive Director of UNAA, Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018, p. 6.

[41]      Submission 135, pp. 7–8

[42]      Submission 63, [p. 3].

[43]      OECD, OECD Development Co-operation Peer Reviews: Australia 2018, p. 30.

[44]      OECD, OECD Development Co-operation Peer Reviews: Australia 2018, p. 31.

[45]      Submission 54, p. 5.

[46]      Submission 54, p. 6.

[47]      Fairtrade Australia and New Zealand, Submission 63, [p. 2].

[48]      Mr Allen, Professor Metternicht and Associate Professor Wiedmann, Submission 17, p. 3.

[49]      Submission 115, p. 5.

[50]      SDSN Australia/Pacific, Submission 55, p. 3. See also MSDI, Submission 121, [p. 3].

[51]      Submission 54, p. 6.

[52]      Submission 120, p. 3. They referred to the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science Australia, Australia 2030: Prosperity through Innovation, 2018.

[53]      Ms Andrea Spencer-Cooke, Partner at One Stone Advisors, Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, p. 1.

[54]      Submission 52, p. 4.

[55]      Submission 55, pp. 2–3. See also Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA), Submission 131, [p. 1]; Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Submission 121, [p. 4].

[56]      Report on the Implementation of the SDGs, 2018, p. 14.

[57]      Submission 130, [p. 4].

[58]      Submission 78, p. 4.

[59]      Professor Rod Glover, Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 15.

[60]      Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 15.

[61]      Submission 94, p. 1.

[62]      Submission 90, p. 1.

[63]      Submission 77, p. 2.

[64]      Submission 77, p. 2.

[65]      Submission 50, p. 2.

[66]      Submission 47, p. 4.

[67]      Submission 47, p. 4.

[68]      Submission 74, [p. 10].

[69]      Report on the Implementation of the SDGs, 2018, p. 6.

[70]      Submission 92, [p. 1].

[71]      Business Council for Sustainable Development Australia (BCSDA) formerly Sustainable Business Australia, Submission 48, [pp. 2–3].

[72]      Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the UN Global Compact and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), SDG Compass: The guide for business action on the SDGs, 2015, p. 4. See also BCSDA, Submission 48, [p. 4].

[73]      See, for example, UNAA, Submission 47, p. 5; Impact Investing Australia, Submission 88, p. 1.

[74]      Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, pp. 9–10.

[75]      Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 10.

[76]      Submission 129, [p. 8].

[77]      Submission 131, [p. 1].

[78]      Business and Sustainable Development Commission, Better Business, Better World, January 2017, p. 12. See, for example, GCNA, Submission 130, [p. 5]; CSIRO, Submission 85, p. 12.

[79]      Better Business, Better World, January 2017, p. 13.

[80]      Submission 43, p. 3.

[81]      Submission 131, [p. 5].

[82]      Submission 85, p. 12.

[83]      Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, p. 24.

[84]      Submission 30, [p. 5], [original emphasis removed].

[85]      SDG Compass: The guide for business action on the SDGs, 2015, p. 4.

[86]      Submission 131, [p. 7]. See also UN Principles for Responsible Investment and pwc, The SDG Investment Case, Finance UNEP Initiative and UN Global Compact, October 2017, p. 7.

[87]      Submission 131, [p. 5].

[88]      Submission 129, [p. 3].

[89]      Submission 129, [p. 3].

[90]      CPD, Submission 129, [p. 2], [original emphasis removed].

[91]      Submission 129, [p. 4], [original emphasis removed].

[92]      CPD, Submission 129, [p. 4]. See also International Energy Agency, World Energy Outlook 2017, https://www.iea.org/weo2017/#section-5 (accessed 22 May 2018).

[93]      SDG Compass: The guide for business action on the SDGs, 2015, p. 4.

[94]      Submission 131, [p. 5].

[95]      RIAA, Submission 131, [p. 6].

[96]      See, for example, RIAA, Submission 131, [p. 6]; GCNA, Submission 130, [p. 5]; Dr Jayne Meyer Tucker, Submission 29, Attachment 1, [p. 2]. 

[97]      Formerly known as Sustainable Business Australia, Submission 48, [p. 4]. See also GRI, UN Global Compact, WBCSD, SDG Compass, 2015, p. 4.

[98]      Submission 129, [p. 5], [original emphasis removed].

[99]      Submission 129, [p. 5].

[100]    Submission 1, p. 2.

[101]    Submission 30, [p. 5], [original emphasis removed].

[102]    GRI, UN Global Compact, WBCSD, SDG Compass, 2015, p. 4.

[103]    Submission 48, [p. 4].

[104]    GRI, UN Global Compact, WBCSD, SDG Compass, 2015, p. 4.

[105]    Submission 49, p. 2.

[106]    Submission 147, [p. 2].

[107]    Submission 147, [p. 2].

[108]    Submission 139, p. 1.

[109]    Submission 48, [p. 5].

[110]    Mr Moore, Submission 78, p. 4.

[111]    Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 6.

[112]    RIAA, Submission 131, [p. 5]; Cbus, Submission 139, p. 3. See UN Commission on Trade and Development, World Investment Report 2014: Investing in the SDGs: An action Plan, overview, New York and Geneva, 2014, pp. x–xi.

[113]    RIAA, Submission 131, [p. 5].

[114]    Business and Sustainable Development Commission, Better Business, Better World, January 2017, p. 68;  G Schmidt-Traub, Investment Needs to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals: Understanding the Billions and Trillions, UN SDSN Working Paper Version 2, November 2015, p. 112.

[115]    GCNA, Submission 130, [p. 5].

[116]    Submission 130, [p. 5].

[117]    Submission 56, p. 11.

[118]    Submission 49, p. 3.

[119]    Submission 76, p. 8.

[120]    Submission 112, p. 1.

[121]    Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, p. 6.

[122]    Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, p. 7.

[123]    Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, p. 25.

[124]    Business and Sustainable Development Commission, Better Business, Better World, January 2017, p. 12.

[125]    Submission 24, p. 3.

[126]    Submission 117, p. 9.

[127]    See, for example, Volunteering Tasmania, Submission 112, [p. 2].

[128]    Submission 68, p. 4.

[129]    Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, p. 25.

[130]    Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, p. 6.

[131]    Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, p. 10.

[132]    Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, p. 25.

[133]    Submission 85, p. 15.

[134]    Australian Government, Tracking Australia's progress on the Sustainable Development Goals, DFAT, 2018, p. 14. See also Australian Government, 'Methodology', SDG Reporting Platform, https://www.sdgdata.gov.au/about/methodology (accessed 10 August 2018).

[135]    Tracking Australia's progress on the Sustainable Development Goals, DFAT, 2018, pp. 15–16.

[136]    See, for example, Ms Maree Miller, Submission 22.

[137]    Submission 3, [p. 2]. 

[138]    Submission 3, [p. 6].

[139]    Submission 27, [p. 1].

[140]    UN, Transforming our world, pp. 6, 28.

Chapter 3 - National governance structures and progress reporting

[1]        See, for example, Oxfam Australia, Submission 18, p. 8; United Nations Association of Australia (UNAA), Submission 47, p. 5; International Women's Development Agency (IWDA), Submission 98, p. 4; Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), Submission 138, p. 9.

[2]        Australian Academy of Science and FEA, Submission 108, p. 3.

[3]        Submission 108, p. 3.

[4]        Submission 60, p. 4.

[5]        Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018, p. 53.

[6]        Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018, p. 11.

[7]        Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018, p. 17.

[8]        DFAT, Submission 60, p. 5; Dr Rachel Bacon, First Assistant Secretary, Policy Analysis and Implementation Division, Department of the Environment and Energy (DoEE), Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018, p. 30.

[9]        Mr Chris Tinning, First Assistant Secretary, DFAT, Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018, p. 14; Mr Jason McDonald, Acting Chief Adviser of the Domestic Policy Group, PM&C, Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018, p. 15; Mr McDonald, Committee Hansard, 7 December 2018, pp. 18–19.

[10]      Committee Hansard, 7 December 2018, p. 16.

[11]      DoEE, answer to question on notice, 23 October 2017, Senate Environment and Communications Legislation Committee.

[12]      Mr McDonald, PM&C, Committee Hansard, 7 December 2018, p. 16.

[13]      Mr McDonald, PM&C, Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018, p. 11.

[14]      German Sustainable Development Strategy: Summary, 2016, (tabled by Mr Marc Purcell, Australian Council for International Development (ACFID), on 24 August 2018), p. 5.

[15]      German Sustainable Development Strategy: Summary, p. 14.

[16]      Submission 52, p. 5.

[17]      Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018, p. 2.

[18]      Attorney-General's Department, Sustainable Development Goals: Commonwealth Agency lead on Goal 16 Targets (tabled 24 August 2018).

[19]      Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018, p. 14.

[20]      See, for example, Volunteering Australia, Submission 127, p. 5; Fred Hollows Foundation, Submission 36, p. 4; Australian Academy of Science and FEA, Submission 108, pp. 6–7.

[21]      Submission 60, p. 5.

[22]      PM&C, answer to question on notice, 22 May 2018, Senate Finance and Public Administration Legislation Committee Budget Estimates.

[23]      Committee Hansard, 7 December 2018, pp. 16–18.

[24]      Committee Hansard, 7 December 2018, p. 16.

[25]      Annual Report 2017–18, October 2018, pp. 262–263.

[26]      Department of Social Services, Answer to question taken on notice, 24 August 2018 (received 9 October 2018); Department of the Treasury, Answer to question taken on notice, 24 August 2018 ( received 6 September 2018).

[27]      Committee Hansard, 7 December 2018, p. 16.

[28]      Committee Hansard, 7 December 2018, p. 19.

[29]      Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018, p. 7.

[30]      Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018, p. 7.

[31]      Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018, p. 8.

[32]      Mr Dan Heap, Committee Hansard, 26 November 2018, p. 5.

[33]      See, for example, Mr Cameron Allen, Professor Graciela Metternicht and Associate Professor Thomas Wiedmann, Submission 17, p. 2; Business Council for Sustainable Development Australia (BCSDA), Submission 48, [p. 4]; Project Respect, Submission 133, [p. 3].

[34]      Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 11.

[35]      Submission 129, [p. 7]. See also Strategic Sustainability Consultants, Submission 50, p. 2.

[36]      Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, p. 30.

[37]      See, for example, Australian Parliamentary Group on Population and Development, Submission 116, [p. 1]; CPD, Submission 129, [p. 7]; Mr Allen, Professor Metternicht and Associate Professor Wiedmann, Submission 17, p. 10; Public Health Association of Australia, Submission 99, p. 4; The University of Sydney, Submission 52, p. 3.

[38]      DFAT, Submission 60, pp. 8, 17–18.

[39]      UN, Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, p. 34; Australian Government, Report on the implementation of the SDGs, 2018; DFAT, Submission 60, p. 4.

[40]      DFAT, answer to question on notice, 24 August 2018 (received 19 October 2018).

[41]      DFAT, Submission 60, p. 20.

[42]      Report on the implementation of the SDGs, p. 14; DFAT, Submission 60, p. 8.

[43]      Ms Kala, Policy Manager, Volunteering Australia, Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018, p. 6; Dr Goldie Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, p. 32; Children and Young People with Disability Australia (CYDA) and Disabled People's Organisations Australia (DPO Australia), Submission 136, p. 3.

[44]      Dr Goldie, Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, p. 32.

[45]      Mr Tinning, DFAT, Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018, p. 10.

[46]      Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018, pp. 56–57.

[47]      Australian Government, Report on the implementation of the SDGs, 2018, p. 6.

[48]      Report on the implementation of the SDGs, p. 14. 

[49]      Report on the implementation of the SDGs, p. 6.

[50]      Shirin Malekpour, 'Australia must embrace transformation for a sustainable future', The Conversation, 19 June 2018.

[51]      Ms Jacqueline Phillips, Director of Policy and Advocacy, Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, p. 36.

[52]      Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, p. 1.

[53]      Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, p. 9.

[54]      UNDP, Guidelines to support country reporting on the SDGs, 2017, p. 30.

[55]      Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, p. 11.

[56]      Dr Tahl Kestin, Network Manager, SDSN Australia, New Zealand and Pacific, Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 15.

[57]      Mr McDonald, Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee, Committee Hansard, 20 October 2016, p. 90.

[58]      UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Handbook for the Preparation of Voluntary National Reviews: 2019 Edition, October 2018, (tabled by Ms Andrea Spencer-Cook on 2 November 2018), pp. 9–10. 

[59]      Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, p. 2.

[60]      ACFID, ACOSS, Global Compact Network Australia (GCNA), SDSN Australia, NZ and Pacific, UNAA, Australian SDGs Summit 2018: Unlocking the Opportunities of the SDGs: Outcomes Report, November 2018, p. 11.

[61]      Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018, p. 16.

[62]      Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, pp. 30, 32; GCNA, Submission 130, [p. 3].

[63]      Submission 98, pp. 4–5.

[64]      See, for example, Oxfam Australia, Submission 18, p. 8; UNAA, Submission 47, p. 5; University of Sydney, Submission 52, p. 3, SDSN Australia/Pacific, Submission 55, p. 3; MSDI, Submission 121, [p. 5]; GCNA, Submission 130, [p. 6]; RIAA, Submission 131, [p. 10]; ACOSS, Submission 140, p. 2.

[65]      See, for example, Vision 2020 Australia, Submission 19, p. 4; Fred Hollows Foundation, Submission 36, p. 2; The Smith Family, Submission 45, p. 6; The Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW), Submission 133, p. 3; Australian Academy of Science and FEA, Submission 108, p. 10; Forrest Primary School, Submission 163, p. 4.

[66]      See, for example, ACFID, Submission 135, p. 6; ACOSS, Submission 140, p. 2; MSDI, Submission 121, [p. 5]; Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI), Submission 92, [p. 2]; PwC, Submission 30, [p. 3].

[67]      SDSN Australia/Pacific, Submission 55, p. 3.

[68]      Submission 85, p. 19.

[69]      Submission 138, pp. 11–12.

[70]      Submission 90, p. 1.

[71]      See, for example, SDSN Australia/Pacific, Submission 55, p. 3; Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA), RIAA, Submission 131, [p. 10].

[72]      Mr Simon O'Connor, Chief Executive Officer, RIAA, Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 40. See also Ms Kylie Porter, Executive Director of GCNA, Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, p. 24.

[73]      See, for example, SDSN Australia/Pacific, Submission 55, p. 3; Oxfam Australia, Submission 18, pp. 50–51; World Vision Australia, Submission 25, p. 10.

[74]      See, for example, GCNA, Submission 130, [p. 6]; AHRC, Submission 138, pp. 11–12.

[75]      Submission 138, pp. 6, 11.

[76]      Sachs, J., Schmidt-Traub, G., Kroll, C., Lafortune, G., Fuller, G, SDG Index and Dashboards Report 2018, Bertelsmann Stiftung and SDSN, New York, 2018, p. viii; Dr Nina Hall and Professor Karen Hussey, Supplementary submission 37.1, UN, Working together: Integration, institutions and the Sustainable Development Goals, World Public Sector Report 2018, UN, New York, 2018, p. ix.

[77]      UN, Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, p. 33.

[78]      Canadian Council for International Co-operation, Progressing national SDGs implementation, March 2018, p. ii.

[79]      Mr Allen, Professor Metternicht and Associate Professor Wiedmann, Submission 17, p. 9.

[80]      Mr Hunter, UNAA, Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018, p. 2.

[81]      German Sustainable Development Strategy: Summary, 2016, (tabled by Mr Marc Purcell, ACFID, on 24 August 2018). See, for other examples: UN, Compendium, 2018, pp. 3–4.

[82]      German Sustainable Development Strategy: Summary, p. 3.

[83]      IWDA, Submission 98, p. 5.

[84]      GCNA, Submission 130, [p. 8].

[85]      German Sustainable Development Strategy: Summary, p. 14; IWDA, Submission 98, p. 4.

[86]      See, for example, Plan International, Submission 67, p. 4; World Vision Australia, Submission 25, p. 9; Mr Purcell, Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018, p. 28.

[87]      UN, Compendium, 2018, p. 3.

[88]      AASW, Submission 133, p. 6; IWDA, Submission 98, p. 5; Danish Government, Denmark's Implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: Report for the Voluntary National Review, 2017, p. 44.

[89]      AASW, Submission 133, p. 6; UN, Compendium, 2018, pp. 10–11.

[90]      GCNA, Submission 130, [p. 8].

[91]      GCNA, Submission 130, [p. 8].

[92]      Eastern Regional Organisation for Planning and Human Settlements (EAROPH) Australia, answer to question on notice, 7 December 2018 (received 18 December 2018), [p. 2]. 

[93]      DFAT, answer to question on notice, 26 October 2017, Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee.

[94]      DFAT, answer to question on notice, 26 October 2017, Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee.

[95]      UN, Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, p. 13.

[96]      Vision 2020 Australia, Submission 19, p. 4.

[97]      Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, p. 9.

[98]      City of Sydney, Submission 54, p. 8; MSDI, Submission 121, [p. 4]; Zoic, Submission 119, p. 6; AustralianSuper, Submission 24, p. 4; Shared Value Project, Submission 49, p. 4.

[99]      Mr Allen, Professor Metternicht and Associate Professor Wiedmann, Submission 17, pp. 4–5.

[100]    Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, p. 12.

[101]    CARE Australia, Submission 123, [p. 1], [original emphasis removed].

[102]    Submission 85, p. 6.

[103]    Ms Patricia Garcia, National SDGS Manager for UNAA, Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018, pp. 4–5.

[104]    Australian Academy of Science and FEA, Submission 108, p. 7.

[105]    Australian Government, Tracking Australia's progress on the SD, DFAT, 2018, p. 1.

[106]    Australian Government, Tracking Australia's progress on the SD, DFAT, 2018, p. 1.

[107]    SDSN Australia/Pacific, Submission 55, Attachment 1, Australian SDGs Summit: On the Road to Implementation, 2016, p. 9.

[108]    See, for example, Transparency International Australia, Submission 132, p. 4.

[109]    Submission 121, [p. 4]. See also the University of Sydney, Submission 52, p. 6; ACOSS, Submission 140, p. 2.

[110]    Submission 98, pp. 4–5.

[111]    Mr Allen, Professor Metternicht and Associate Professor Wiedmann, Submission 17, p. 9.

[112]    Progressing national SDGs implementation, March 2018, p. iv. See also UNDP, Guidelines to support country reporting on the SDGs, 2017, p. 28.

[113]    German Sustainable Development Strategy: Summary, 2016, (tabled by Mr Marc Purcell, ACFID, on 24 August 2018), p. 3. See also the example of Mexico, UN, Compendium, 2018, p. 10.

[114]    See, for example, uBegin, Submission 89, [p. 2].

[115]    UN, Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, pp. 31–32.

[116]    Submission 85, p. 15.

[117]    Submission 58, p. 6.

[118]    ACFID, Submission 135, p. 4.

[119]    Submission 85, p. 16.

[120]    Australian Government, Report on the implementation of the SDGs, 2018, p. 15.  

[121]    ACOSS, Submission 140, p. 2. See also Ms Glenys Jones, Submission 104, p. 7.

[122]    BCSDA (formerly Sustainable Business Australia), Submission 48, [p. 4].

[123]    Academics Stand Against Poverty Oceania, Australia, Poverty and the Sustainable Development Goals, University of Wollongong, School of Humanities and Social Inquiry, 2018, p. 9.

[124]    Submission 135, p. 6. See also Global Citizen, Submission 22, p. 7.

[125]    UN, Compendium, p. 12.

[126]    Dr Hall and Professor Hussey, Supplementary submission 37.1, UN, Working together, p. ix.

[127]    UNAA, Submission 47, p. 9.

[128]    IWDA, Submission 98, p. 8. See also Norway's Voluntary National Review, 2016, https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/memberstates/norway (accessed 30 January 2019).

[129]    Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018, p. 53.

[130]    UN, Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, pp. 31–33.

[131]    SDSN Australia/Pacific, Submission 55, p. 4; ACFID, Submission 135, p. 9.

[132]    ACOSS, Submission 140, p. 2. See also Oxfam Australia, Submission 18, pp. 50–51.

[133]    MSDI, Submission 121, [p. 5].

[134]    Mr Allen, Professor Metternicht and Associate Professor Wiedmann, Submission 17, pp. 4–5; MSDI, Submission 121, [p. 5].

[135]    UNDP, Guidelines to support country reporting on the SDGs, 2017, p. 16.

[136]    Submission 141, p. 5. Submissions calling for annual or biennial reporting included Monash University, Submission 120, p. 4, [original emphasis removed]; SDSN Australia/Pacific, Submission 55, p. 4.

[137]    Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, pp. 8–9. See also Dr Jarrett Blaustein, Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon and Professor Rob White, Submission 46, p. 5.

[138]    UN, Compendium, 2018, p. 7.

[139]    Dr Hall and Professor Hussey, Supplementary submission 37.1, UN, Working together, pp. x, 26-27.

[140]    AASW, Submission 133, p. 6; UN, Compendium, 2018, p. 7.

[141]    Supplementary submission 37.1, UN, Working together, p. 27.

[142]    University of Sydney, Submission 52, pp. 3, 5; Doctors for the Environment Australia, Submission 33, p. 3.

[143]    Submission 48, [p. 5].

[144]    CSIRO, Submission 85, p. 15; Australian Dairy Industry Council, Submission 148, [p. 4].

[145]    Mr Allen, Professor Metternicht and Associate Professor Wiedmann, Submission 17, p. 6.

[146]    Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, p. 9.

[147]    CSIRO, Submission 85, p. 6; Mr Allen, Professor Metternicht and Associate Professor Wiedmann, Submission 17, p. 6.

[148]    Submission 34, [p. 4].

[149]    Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 11.

[150]    World Vision Australia, Submission 25, p. 2; Mr Ryan Kennealy, Submission 69, p. 3.

[151]    Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, pp. 32–33.

[152]    UNDP, Guidelines to support country reporting on the SDGs, 2017, pp. 18–19.

[153]    Handbook for the Preparation of Voluntary National Reviews, (tabled by Ms Andrea Spencer-Cook on 2 November 2018), pp. 52–3. 

[154]    City of Sydney, Submission 54, p. 10.

[155]    UN, Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, pp. 31–32.

[156]    UN, Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, pp. 31–32.

[157]    ACFID, Submission 135, p. 11. See also Dr Caroline Lambert, Director of Research, Policy and Advocacy, IWDA, Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 27.

[158]    Equality Rights Alliance, Submission 149, p. 13; P Davidson, P Saunders, B Bradbury and M Wong, Poverty in Australia, 2018, ACOSS/UNSW Poverty and Inequality Partnership Report No. 2, Sydney, (tabled by Dr Cassandra Goldie on 2 November 2018), p. 6.

[159]    Australian Government, Report on the implementation of the SDGs, 2018, p. 114; DFAT, Submission 60, p. 14.

[160]    Submission 98, p. 4.

[161]    IWDA, Submission 98, p. 11; ACFID, Submission 135, p. 11.

[162]    Individual Deprivation Measure, http://www.individualdeprivationmeasure.org/ (accessed 23 January 2019).

[163]    Australian Government, Report on the implementation of the SDGs, 2018, p. 114.

[164]    Australian Government, Tracking Australia's progress on the SDGs, DFAT, 2018, p. 12.

[165]    Mrs Emily Walter, Director of Household Characteristics and Social Reporting, Committee Hansard, 7 December 2018, p. 19.

[166]    Mrs Walter, Committee Hansard, 7 December 2018, p. 19.

[167]    Australian Government, Tracking Australia's progress on the Sustainable Development Goals, DFAT, 2018, p. 25; University of Melbourne and ANDI Limited, Submission 97; AURIN, Submission 58.

[168]    SDSN Youth Australia/Pacific, Submission 141, p. 5;  Mr Clinton Moore, Submission 78, p. 6; GCNA, Submission 130, [p. 6].

[169]    https://www.sdgdata.gov.au/

[170]    Report on the Implementation of the SDGs, 2018, p. 113.

[171]    DoEE, Submission 115, p. 8.

[172]    Australian Government, Tracking Australia's progress on the SDGs, DFAT, 2018, p. 12.

[173]    Australian Government, Tracking Australia's progress on the SDGs, DFAT, 2018, p. 12; Dr Paul Jelfs, General Manager, Population and Social Statistics, ABS, Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018, p. 13.

[174]    Australian Government, Report on the implementation of the SDGs, 2018, p. 113.

[175]    See, for example, Ms Lisa Elliston, Division Head, International Policy and Engagement Division, Department of the Treasury, Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018, pp. 21–22.

[176]    Ms Karen Sandercock, Group Manager, International Group, Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018 p. 23. 

[177]    Report on the Implementation of the SDGs, 2018, p. 113.

[178]    Australian Government, 'Methodology', SDG Reporting Platform, https://www.sdgdata.gov.au/about/methodology (accessed 30 January 2019).

[179]    Dr Hall and Professor Hussey, Submission 76, p. 12; SDSN Youth Australia/Pacific, Submission 141, p. 5.

[180]    UN, Compendium, 2018, p. 6.

[181]    Dr Hall and Professor Hussey, Supplementary submission 37.1, Working together, pp. x–ix.

[182]    UN, Compendium, 2018, p. 6.

[183]    UNAA, Submission 47, p. 7; ACSI, Submission 92, [p. 2]; GCNA, Submission 130, [p. 6]; ACOSS, Submission 140, p. 2.

[184]    Submission 55, p. 4.

[185]    Cbus, Submission 139, p. 3; IWDA, Submission 98, p. 5.

[186]    ACFID, Submission 135, p. 6.

[187]    Submission 98, p. 5.

[188]    CPD, Submission 129, p. 2; BCSDA, Submission 48, [p. 5].

[189]    Submission 50, p. 19.

[190]    Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018, p. 48.

[191]    UNAA, Submission 47, p. 9.

[192]    German Sustainable Development Strategy: Summary, 2016, (tabled by Mr Marc Purcell, ACFID, on 24 August 2018), p. 4.

[193]    CSIRO, Submission 85, p. 19.

[194]    Submission 135, p. 8.

[195]    Submission 135, p. 8.

[196]    Submission 53, [p. 2], [original emphasis removed]. See also Plan International, Submission 67, p. 2; The Institute for Human Security and Social Change at La Trobe University, Submission 77, p. 3, [original emphasis removed].

[197]    SDSN Youth Australia/Pacific, Submission 141, pp. 4–5; Oaktree, Submission 42, [pp. 2–3].

[198]    Submission 42, p. 3.

[199]    SDSN Youth Australia/Pacific, Submission 141, p. 6; Australian National Development Index (ANDI) Limited and the University of Melbourne, Submission 97, p. 7; AASW, Submission 133, p. 7.

[200]    UNAA, Submission 47, p. 7; SDSN Youth Australia/Pacific, Submission 141, p. 5.

[201]    Submission 90, p. 2.

[202]    AASW, Submission 133, p. 3; Doctors for the Environment, Submission 33, p. 2.

[203]    Dr Blaustein, Dr Fitz-Gibbon and Professor White, Submission 46, p. 5.

[204]    Submission 123, [p. 2], [original emphasis removed].

[205]    UN, Compendium, 2018, p. 10.

[206]    UN, Compendium, 2018, pp. 10–11.

[207]    UN, Compendium, 2018, p. 10.

[208]    Dr Hall and Professor Hussey, Supplementary submission 37.1, UN, Working together, 2018, p. x.

[209]    UN, Compendium, 2018, pp. 11–12. Other examples of countries with SAIs that have engaged with the SDGs include Costa Rica and Indonesia.

[210]    Submission 25, p. 18.

[211]    Submission 25, pp. 2, 11.

[212]    World Vision Australia, Submission 25, pp. 2, 18.

[213]    World Vision Australia, Submission 25, p. 18.

[214]    Submission 30, [p. 3].

[215]    UN, Compendium, 2018, p. 5. See also the German Sustainable Development Strategy: Summary, 2016, (tabled by Mr Marc Purcell, ACFID, on 24 August 2018), p. 15.

[216]    UN, Compendium, 2018, p. 5.

[217]    UN, Compendium, 2018, pp. 7–8.

[218]    GCNA, Submission 130, [p. 5].

[219]    Dr Hall and Professor Hussey, Supplementary submission 37.1, UN, Working together, 2018, p. x.

[220]    Director of Research, Policy and Advocacy, Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, pp. 28–29.

[221]    Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018, p. 49.

[222]    The Australian Academy of Science and FEA, Submission 108, p. 5.

[223]    Ms Phillips, Director of Policy and Advocacy, Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, p. 36.

[224]    Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, p. 34.

[225]    CPD, Submission 129, [p. 7]. See also EAROPH Australia; Submission 14, p. 3.

[226]    Submission 127, p. 5. See also UNAA, Submission 47, p. 6.

[227]    Committee Hansard, 7 December 2018, p. 21.

[228]    Committee Hansard, 7 December 2018, p. 19.

[229]    DFAT, Submission 60, p. 3.

[230]    Mr Tinning, DFAT, Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018, p. 42.

[231]    Ms Moore, Assistant Secretary, International Cooperation, Attorney-General's Department, Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018, p. 42.

[232]    Department of the Treasury, answer to question on notice, 24 August 2018 (received 6 September 2018).

[233]    AHRC, Submission 138, p. 13.

[234]    Report on the Implementation of the SDGs, 2018, p. 6, [original emphasis removed].

[235]    Submission 143, pp. 1–2.

[236]    Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, p. 29.

[237]    IWDA, Submission 98, p. 6; CBM Australia, Submission 93, p. 1.

[238]    World Vision Australia, Submission 25, p. 1.

[239]    Submission 1, p. 3.

[240]    Australian Water Association, Submission 61, [p. 2]; ACFID, Submission 135, pp. 6–7; IWDA, Submission 98, p. 6; Australian Civil Society Coalition on Women Peace and Security, Submission 59, p. 5; AHRC, Submission 138, p. 7; Oxfam Australia, Submission 18, p. 9. See also UNICEF, Submission 87, p. 3.

[241]    Submission 47, pp. 5–6.

[242]    Committee Hansard, 7 December 2018, pp. 1, 4. See also National Congress of Australia's First Peoples, answer to question on notice, 7 December 2018 (received 20 December 2018), [p. 2]. 

[243]    Submission 154, p. 5. See also ACFID, Submission 135, pp. 6–7; MSDI, Submission 121, [p. 5]; AHRC, Submission 138, pp. 7, 14; Dr Hall and Professor Hussey, Submission 76, p. 9.

[244]    Committee Hansard, 7 December 2018, p. 23.

[245]    DoEE, Submission 115, p. 3.

[246]    DoEE, Submission 115, p. 3.

[247]    Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018, p. 33.

[248]    Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018, pp. 33–34.

[249]    Mr Richard McLoughlin, Assistant Secretary, Murray Darling Basin Plan Taskforce Head, International Engagement Branch, Department of Agriculture and Water Resources, Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018, pp. 34–35.

[250]    Mr Matthew Worrell, Assistant Secretary, Bilateral Market Access, DAWR, Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018, p. 28. See also DAWR, answers to questions on notice, 24 August 2018 (received 14 September 2018).

[251]    Mr Malcolm Greening, Branch Manager, Labour Market Strategy Group, Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018, p. 40.

[252]    Mr Greening, Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018, p. 40; Ms Moore, Attorney-General's Department, Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018, p. 37.

[253]    Mr Greening, Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018, p. 43.

[254]    Ms Moore, Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018, p. 37.

[255]    Ms Stephanie Aeuckens, Director, Global Development Branch, DFAT, Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018, p. 38.

[256]    Dr Cate Rogers, Dr Cate Rogers, Assistant Secretary, Development Policy and Education Branch, DFAT, Committee Hansard, 7 December 2018, pp. 19–20; Mr McDonald, Committee Hansard, 7 December 2018, p. 20.

[257]    Ms Garcia, Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018, p. 6; Mr Clinton Moore, Vice-President of EAROPH Australia, Committee Hansard, 7 December 2018, p. 11.

[258]    GCNA, Submission 130, [p. 4].

[259]    CPD, Submission 129, p. 1.

Chapter 4 - Partnering with other levels of government

[1]        Australian Government, Report on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, 2018, p. 12.

[2]        City of Sydney, Submission 54, p. 5.

[3]        House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee, Sustainable Development Goals in the UK, Ninth Report of Session 2016–17, 2017, (tabled by Mr Marc Purcell, ACFID, on 24 August 2018).

[4]        UNAA, Submission 47, p. 9; Sachs, J., Schmidt-Traub, G., Kroll, C., Lafortune, G., Fuller, G, SDG Index and Dashboards Report 2018, Bertelsmann Stiftung and SDSN, New York, 2018.

[5]        Submission 130, [p. 8].

[6]        Submission 60, p. 4.

[7]        Submission 60, p. 4.

[8]        DFAT, answer to question on notice, 7 December 2018 (received 18 January 2019), [p. 2].

[9]        Submission 115, p. 9.

[10]      DoEE, Submission 115, p. 8.

[11]      DoEE, Submission 115, p. 8.

[12]      Mr Malcolm Greening, Branch Manager, Labour Market Strategy Group, Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018, p. 40.

[13]      Department of Health (DoH), Submission 143, p. 10.

[14]      Submission 143, p. 11.

[15]      DoH, Submission 143, p. 11.

[16]      ABS, Submission 96, p. 3. Other entities, such as the CSIRO, also contributed to the global indicators. See Australian Government, Report on the implementation of the SDGs, 2018, p. 114, [original emphasis removed].

[17]      Submission 74, [p. 9].

[18]      Department of Agriculture and Water Resources, Submission 86, p. 6.

[19]      Submission 19, p. 5.

[20]      Business Call to Action and Business for Development, Submission 101, [p. 10].

[21]      DFAT, Submission 60, p. 4.

[22]      DFAT, Submission 60, p. 4.

[23]      DoH, Submission 143, p. 10.

[24]      Submission 144, p. 3.

[25]      Submission 66, p. 1.

[26]      Submission 66, p. 2, [original italicisation removed].

[27]      Submission 66, p. 1, [original italicisation removed].

[28]      Submission 101, [p. 10].

[29]      Submission 143, p. 10.

[30]      Professor Jago Dodson Global Advisor, UN Global Compact—Cities Programme, Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 52.

[31]      Dr Nina Hall and Professor Karen Hussey, Supplementary submission 37.1, UN, Working together: Integration, institutions and the Sustainable Development Goals, World Public Sector Report 2018, UN, New York, 2018, p. xi.

[32]      Dr Hall and Professor Hussey, Supplementary submission 37.1, UN, Working together, 2018, p. xi.

[33]      Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 15.

[34]      The Public Health Association of Australia, Submission 99, p. 6; The Smith Family Submission 45, p. 6; South East Queensland special network joint submission, Submission 53, [p. 4].

[35]      Submission 14, p. 2.

[36]      Submission 129, [p. 8].

[37]      Submission 121, [p. 5].

[38]      Submission 25, p. 2.

[39]      Submission 71, p. 2.

[40]      World Vision Australia, Submission 25, p. 3; Name withheld, Submission 109, p. 2; The Smith Family, Submission 45, p. 6.

[41]      Name withheld, Submission 109, p. 2.

[42]      Western Australian Council of Social Service (WACOSS), Submission 145, [p. 2].

[43]      DoEE, Submission 115, p. 6.

[44]      Mr Jason McDonald, Chief Adviser, Domestic Policy Group, PM&C, Committee Hansard, 7 December 2018, p. 17.

[45]      Senate Finance and Public Administration Legislation Committee, Committee Hansard, 22 May 2018, p. 152.

[46]      Answer to question on notice, 7 December 2018 (received 18 January 2018), [p. 4].

[47]      Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 52.

[48]      Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 52.

[49]      Submission 50, pp. 8, 20.

[50]      Submission 164, p. 2.

[51]      City of Newcastle, Submission 164, p. 2.

[52]      Committee Hansard, 7 December 2018, p. 9.

[53]      Submission 68, p. 3.

[54]      Submission 68, p. 5. See City of Melbourne SDGs Scorecard, Opportunities and recommendations report 2017: Annual Plan Initiative 1.13 http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/sitecollectiondocuments/sustainable-development-goals.pdf. One Stone Advisors also supported SDG dashboards for state and local governments (Submission 90, p. 1).

[55]      Submission 68, p. 5.

[56]      Submission 54, p. 11.

[57]      Submission 14, p. 3.

[58]      AURIN, Submission 58, p. 5.

[59]      Centre for Disaster Management and Public Safety and Centre for Spatial Data Infrastructures and Land Administration, Submission 75, [p. 3].

[60]      Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN), Submission 58, p. 6.

[61]      Answer to additional written question on notice, 7 December 2018 (received 17 January 2019), [p. 7]. 4.2.2 is: Participation rate in organised learning (one year before the official primary entry age).

[62]      Submission 68, pp. 4, 6. The City of Melbourne noted that existing reporting frameworks include those set out in state government legislation (such as the Victorian Local Government Act 1989), the Global Reporting Initiative, and individual council strategies and commitments.

[63]      Submission 164, p. 2.

[64]      Dr Hall and Professor Hussey, Submission 76, p. 10. 

[65]      Submission 69, p. 3.

[66]      Submission 1, p. 3.

[67]      Dr Hall and Professor Hussey, Supplementary submission 37.1, UN, Working together, 2018, p. xi.

[68]      UN, Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development (Addis Ababa Action Agenda)—Resolution 69/313, p. 11.

[69]      UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs, Compendium of National Institutional Arrangements for implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 2018, p. 7.

[70]      Committee Hansard, 7 December 2018, p. 11.

[71]      Submission 68, p. 5.

[72]      Submission 47, p. 2.

[73]      Mr Placek, Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, p. 17.

[74]      Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, p. 16. See also answer to question on notice, 2 November 2018 (received 15 November 2018) [p. 1]; Mrs Sandra McCarthy, President of HCI, Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, p. 20.

[75]      Committee Hansard, 7 December 2018, p. 10.

[76]      Submission 121, [p. 5].

[77]      Committee Hansard, 7 December 2018, p. 13.

[78]      Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018, p. 18.

[79]      Submission 79, p. 6.

[80]      Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 15.

[81]      MSDI, Submission 121, [p. 2].

[82]      MSDI, Submission 121, [p. 4].

[83]      Submission 121, [p. 4].

[84]      Committee Hansard, 7 December 2018, pp. 8, 10.

[85]      Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, p. 5.

[86]      Ms Hatfield Dodds, PM&C, Senate Finance and Public Administration Legislation Committee, Committee Hansard, 22 May 2018, p. 152.

[87]      DoEE, Submission 115, p. 6. See also Dr Rachel Bacon, First Assistant Secretary, Policy Analysis and Implementation Division, DoEE, Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018, p. 35.

[88]      DoEE, Submission 115, p. 6.

[89]      Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018, p. 35.

[90]      DoH, Submission 143, p. 11.

[91]      Mr Malcolm Greening, Branch Manager, Labour Market Strategy Group, Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018, p. 40.

[92]      Mr Richard Wood, Acting Executive Director, Portfolio Coordination and Research, Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018, p. 41.

[93]      Ms Karen Moore, Assistant Secretary, International Cooperation, Attorney-General's Department, Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018, p. 42.

[94]      Global Compact—Cities Programme, Submission 103, [p. 4].

[95]      Global Compact—Cities Programme, Submission 103, [p. 4].

[96]      Global Compact—Cities Programme, Submission 103, [p. 4].

[97]      Submission 103, [p. 4].

[98]      Submission 50, p.  8.

[99]      Submission 108, p. 7.

[100]    Committee Hansard, 7 December 2018, p. 8.

[101]    Submission 103, [p. 2].

[102]    Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 52.

[103]    Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 52.

[104]    Submission 85, p. 11.

[105]    Submission 79, p. 6.

[106]    SDSN and German Cooperation Deutsche Zusammenarbeit, Getting started with the SDGs in Cities: A guide for stakeholders, 2016, https://sdgcities.guide/ (accessed 19 September 2018).

[107]    Dr Hall and Professor Hussey, Supplementary submission 37.1, UN, Working together, p. xi.

[108]    Committee Hansard, 7 December 2018, p. 23; PM&C, answer to question on notice, 7 December 2018 (received 18 January 2018), [p. 6].

[109]    Mr Cameron Allen, Professor Graciela Metternicht and Associate Professor Thomas Wiedmann, Submission 17, pp. 4–5.

[110]    Submission 68, p. 5. See also Ms Glenys Jones, Submission 104, p. 5.

[111]    Submission 14, p. 3.

[112]    Ms Alice Ridge, Acting Director of Policy and Advocacy, ACFID, Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018, p. 50.

[113]    Submission 68, p. 1.

[114]    Submission 68, p. 3.

[115]    Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 53.

[116]    Submission 54, p. 2. See also Ms Andrea Beattie, Executive Manager, Strategic Outcomes, City of Sydney, Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, p. 15.

[117]    Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, p. 15.

[118]    Australian Government, Report on the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, 2018, p. 12.

[119]    Committee Hansard, 7 December 2018, p. 9. See also City of Newcastle, Submission 164, p. 1.

[120]    Committee Hansard, 7 December 2018, pp. 7, 9; City of Newcastle, Submission 164, p. 1.

[121]    Committee Hansard, 7 December 2018, p. 10.

[122]    Committee Hansard, 7 December 2018, p. 8.

[123]    Submission 155, [p. 2].

[124]    Submission 155, [p. 2].

[125]    Submission 134, p. 3.

[126]    Mr Placek, Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, p. 17.

[127]    Submission 155, [p. 2].

[128]    Submission 164, p. 1.

[129]    Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, p. 19.

[130]    Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, p. 19.

[131]    Submission 154, p. 3.

[132]    Submission 79, p. 10.

[133]    City of Sydney, Submission 54, p. 11; City of Melbourne, Submission 68, p. 6; Mr Clinton Moore, Submission 78, p. 6.

[134]    City of Melbourne, Submission 68, p. 6.

[135]    City of Sydney, Submission 54, p. 11.

[136]    Submission 68, p. 6.

[137]    Submission 68, p. 6.

[138]    Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 52.

[139]    Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 52.

[140]    Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 51.

[141]    Submission 14, p. 5.

Chapter 5 - Encouraging implementation of the SDGs beyond government

[1]        Professor John Thwaites, Chair, Monash Sustainable Development Institute (MSDI), Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 8.

[2]        ACFID, Submission 135, p. 8.

[3]        Business Council for Sustainable Development Australia (BCSDA) (formerly Sustainable Business Australia), Submission 48, [p. 2].

[4]        Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 34.

[5]        Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 35.

[6]        DFAT, Submission 60, p. 7.

[7]        DFAT, Submission 60, p. 7.

[8]        Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, pp. 24, 29.

[9]        International Women's Development Agency (IWDA), Submission 98, p. 8.

[10]      BCSDA, Submission 48, [p. 5].

[11]      Submission 130, [p. 5].

[12]      Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, p. 26.

[13]      Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 15.

[14]      RIAA, Submission 131, [p. 8]. See also BCSDA, Submission 48, [p. 4]; Impact Investing Australia, Submission 88, p. 1; Shared Value Project, Submission 49, p. 3.

[15]      Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 35.

[16]      Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 1.

[17]      Submission 131, [p. 10].

[18]      Submission 130, [p. 5].

[19]      See, for example, PwC, Submission 30, [p. 1].

[20]      Mr Jason Sprott, Submission 106, [p. 2].

[21]      Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, p. 1.

[22]      Shared Value Project, Submission 49, p. 1. 

[23]      Shared Value Project, Submission 49, p. 1. 

[24]      RIAA, Submission 131, [p. 5].

[25]      Principles for Responsible Investment, Submission 26, [p. 1].

[26]      RIAA, Submission 131, [p. 5].

[27]      RIAA, Submission 131, [p. 5].

[28]      Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 5.

[29]      Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 34.

[30]      Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 36.

[31]      RIAA, Benchmarking Impact: Australian Impact Investment Activity and Performance Report 2018, 2018, p. 6. This report features data for the period 1 July 2015 to 31 December 2017 from 24 organisations overseeing 51 retail and wholesale impact investment products in Australia.

[32]      RIAA, Benchmarking Impact, 2018, p. 6.

[33]      Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, pp. 37–38.

[34]      Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 38.

[35]      Big River Impact Foundation, 'Why Impact Investing', Big River Impact Foundation website, http://bigriverfoundation.com.au/about/impact-investing/ (accessed 20 December 2018). See also the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples, answer to question on notice, 7 December 2018 (received 20 December 2018), [p. 2]. 

[36]      Submission 88, p. 2.

[37]      Submission 1, p. 3.

[38]      Submission 49, pp. 3–4.

[39]      GCNA, Submission 130, [p. 6].

[40]      World Vision Australia, Submission 25, p. 3.

[41]      Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 34.

[42]      Impact Investing Australia, Submission 88, p. 2. See also Ms McCutchan, Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, pp. 34, 39; RIAA, Submission 131, [p. 11].

[43]      Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 41.

[44]      Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 39.

[45]      Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 41.

[46]      Ms McCutchan, Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 34.

[47]      Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, p. 3.

[48]      Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, p. 3.

[49]      Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, p. 27.

[50]      Queensland Tourism Industry Council, Submission 76, p. 8.

[51]      Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, p. 2.

[52]      Submission 76, p. 8.

[53]      Submission 76, p. 8.

[54]      Answer to question on notice, 2 November 2018 (received 20 November 2018), p. 2.

[55]      Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, p. 2.

[56]      Sachs, J., Schmidt-Traub, G., Kroll, C., Lafortune, G., Fuller, G, SDG Index and Dashboards Report 2018, Bertelsmann Stiftung and SDSN, New York, 2018, p. 7.

[57]      SDG Index and Dashboards Report 2018, p. 7.

[58]      Answer to question on notice, 2 November 2018 (received 20 November 2018), p. 2.

[59]      Answer to question on notice, 2 November 2018 (received 20 November 2018), pp. 3–4.

[60]      Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, pp. 25–26.

[61]      Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, pp. 4–5.

[62]      Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, p. 7.

[63]      Answer to question on notice, 2 November 2018 (received 20 November 2018), pp. 4–6.

[64]      UN, Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development (Addis Ababa Action Agenda)—Resolution 69/313, p. 7.

[65]      Renzo Mori Junior, Ross Wyatt and Amanda Nuttall, ASX 20 Disclosures on the Sustainable Development Goals, Think Impact, Research Report, November 2017, p. 8. See Australian Council of Superannuation Investors Limited (ACSI), Corporate Sustainability Reporting in Australia: An analysis of ASX200 disclosure, 2017, p. 24.

[66]      Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, p. 2.

[67]      ACSI, Corporate Sustainability Reporting in Australia: An analysis of ASX200 disclosure featuring climate-related risk, July 2017, p. 6.

[68]      Submission 118, pp. 2–3.

[69]      Professor Islam, Submission 118, p. 2; RIAA, Submission 131, [p. 10], Professor Thwaites, Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, pp. 12–13.

[70]      Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 5.

[71]      ACFID, ACOSS, GCNA, SDSN Australia, NZ and Pacific, UNAA, Australian SDGs Summit 2018: Unlocking the Opportunities of the SDGs: Outcomes Report, November 2018, 11.

[72]      Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, p. 29. See also GCNA, Submission 130, [p. 4].

[73]      Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 42.

[74]      Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, pp. 28–29.

[75]      Submission 129, [p. 2].

[76]      CPD, Submission 129, [p. 2].

[77]      Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 1.

[78]      Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, pp. 1, 6.

[79]      Submission 139, p. 2. See also Recommendation 1 of Principles for Responsible Investing, Fiduciary Duty in the 21st Century – Australia Roadmap, 2016.

[80]      Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 39. See also Mr Petersen, Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, p. 28.

[81]      Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 1. The TCFD, comprised of 32 members, seeks to develop recommendations for voluntary climate-related financial disclosures.

[82]      Submission 147, [p. 3].

[83]      UNAA, Submission 47, p. 5; Strategic Sustainability Consultants (SSC), Submission 50, p. 3; Ms Jacklin Molla and Ms Sarah Griffin, Submission 72, p. 14; University of Queensland researchers coordinated by Dr Nina Hall and Professor Karen Hussey, Submission 76, p. 10.

[84]      Submission 118, p. 4.

[85]      Submission 118, p. 4.

[86]      Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, p. 10.

[87]      Submission 83, p. 3.

[88]      Submission 50, p. 19. See also Mr Jason Sprott, Submission 106, [p. 3].

[89]      Mr Petersen, BCSDA, Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, p. 26.

[90]      PwC, Submission 30, [p. 4].

[91]      Mr Petersen, BCSDA, Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, p. 26.

[92]      Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 8. See also AGL, Submission 56, p. 16; HESTA, Submission 147, [p. 3].

[93]      City West Water, Submission 156, [p. 2]; Mr Sprott, Submission 106, [p. 3].

[94]      GCNA, Submission 130, [p. 7].

[95]      Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, p. 26.

[96]      Mr O'Connor, RIAA, Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 35.

[97]      Mr O'Connor, RIAA, Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 35.

[98]      Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 35. See also RIAA, Submission 131, [p. 10]; World Vision Australia, Submission 25, p. 12.

[99]      GCNA, Submission 130, [p. 5]; Principles for Responsible Investment, Submission 26, [p. 1].

[100]    Ms Porter, Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, pp. 23, 28. See also GRI, PRI, UN Global Compact, In Focus: Addressing Investor Needs in Business Reporting on the SDGs, 2018, p. 11.

[101]    BCSDA, Submission 48, [p. 2].

[102]    Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, p. 27.

[103]    Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 37.

[104]    Submission 129, [pp. 8–9]. 

[105]    Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 2.

[106]    UN, Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development—Resolution 70/1, p. 11.

[107]    Global Compact—Cities Programme, Submission 103, [p. 3].

[108]    DFAT, Submission 60, p. 7; DFAT, answer to question on notice, 7 December 2018 (received 18 January 2019), [p. 2].

[109]    ACFID, Submission 135, p. 12.

[110]    AHRC, Submission 138, p. 6. See also Global Compact—Cities Programme, Submission 103, [p. 3].

[111]    Submission 140, p. 2.

[112]    Submission 135, p. 15.

[113]    Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018, p. 48.

[114]    See, for example, the Western Australian Council of Social Service, Submission 145, [p. 2].

[115]    Submission 47, p. 6.

[116]    Submission 134, p. 2.

[117]    SDSN Australia/Pacific, Submission 55, Attachment 1, Australian SDGs Summit: On the Road to Implementation, 2016, p. 14; Western Australian SDG Network, Submission 114, p. 3; HCI, answer to question on notice, 2 November 2018 (received 15 November 2018), [p. 1].

[118]    Submission 55, p. 2.

[119]    Submission 55, p. 2.

[120]    Submission 141, pp. 1–2.

[121]    Submission 141, Attachment 1, p. 8.

[122]    Submission 141, Attachment 1, p. 8.

[123]    Submission 141, p. 2.

[124]    Submission 141, p. 6.

[125]    Mary Ward International Australia, Submission 12, [p. 3].

[126]    Dr Hall and Professor Hussey, Submission 37, p. 6.

[127]    ACOSS, Submission 140, p. 2.

[128]    CYDA and DPO Australia, Submission 136, pp. 1–2.

[129]    Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, pp. 19–20. See also Ms Stephanie Gotlib, CEO, CYDA, Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 19.

[130]    Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 21.

[131]    Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 23.

[132]    Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 24.

[133]    Fred Hollows Foundation, Submission 36, pp. 1–2. See also CBM Australia Submission 93, p. 1.

[134]    Mr Cameron Allen, UNSW Faculty of Science, Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, p. 12.

[135]    Dr Hall and Professor Hussey, Supplementary submission 37.1, UN, Working together: Integration, institutions and the Sustainable Development Goals, World Public Sector Report 2018, UN, New York, 2018, p. xii.

[136]    Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 8.

[137]    See, for example, World Vision Australia, Submission 25, p. 19; University of Sydney, Submission 52, p. 3; SDSN Australia/Pacific, Submission 55, p. 4; Plan International, Submission 67, p. 2; Global Compact—Cities Programme, Submission 103, [p. 3]; ACFID, Submission 135, pp. 8–9; AHRC, Submission 138, p. 6; Equality Rights Alliance, Submission 149, p. 5.

[138]    See, for example, IWDA, Submission 98, p. 5 (The IWDA submission also noted its previous proposal for a Women's Rights and Gender Equality Advisory Group (p. 5));  ACFID, Submission 135, pp. 8–9; Australian Civil Society Coalition on Women Peace and Security, Submission 59, p. 3.

[139]    Submission 55, p. 4.

[140]    See, for example, Mr Allen, Professor Metternicht and Associate Professor Wiedmann, Submission 17, p. 5; AHRC, Submission 138, p. 6; PwC, Submission 30, [pp. 5–6].

[141]    See, for example, MSDI, Submission 121, [p. 5]; City of Melbourne, Submission 68, p. 2; Monash University, Submission 120, p. 3.

[142]    UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs, Compendium of National Institutional Arrangements for implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 2018, p. 9.

[143]    UN, Compendium, 2018, p. 9.

[144]    Dr Hall and Professor Hussey, Supplementary submission 37.1, UN, Working together, 2018, p. xiii.

[145]    UK Stakeholders for Sustainable Development, Progressing national SDGs implementation: Experiences and recommendations from 2016, Bond, November 2016, pp. 39–40.

[146]    Progressing national SDGs implementation, Bond, November 2016, p. 29.

[147]    German Sustainable Development Strategy: Summary, 2016, (tabled by Mr Marc Purcell, ACFID, on 24 August 2018), p. 5.

[148]    CSIRO, Submission 85, p. 19.

[149]    Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018, p. 55.

[150]    UN, Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, pp. 31–32.

[151]    UN, Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development (Addis Ababa Action Agenda)—Resolution 69/313, p. 35.

[152]    SDG Index and Dashboards Report 2018, Bertelsmann Stiftung and SDSN, New York, 2018.

[153]    SDG Index & Dashboards, Frequently Asked Questions, http://sdgindex.org/faq/ (accessed 24 January 2019).

[154]    Mr Allen, Professor Metternicht and Associate Professor Wiedmann, Submission 17, p. 5; UNAA, Submission 47, pp. 7–8; SDSN Australia/Pacific, Submission 55, p. 4; WWF-Australia, Submission 79, p. 6; ACSI, Submission 92, [p. 2]; MSDI, Submission 121, [p. 6]; ACFID, Submission 135, p. 9.

[155]    MSDI, Submission 121, [p. 6]; City of Sydney, Submission 54, pp. 10–11.

[156]    https://www.sdgtransformingaustralia.com/ (accessed 12 December 2018); MSDI, Supplementary submission 121.1.

[157]    Professor Glover, Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 9.

[158]    MSDI, Supplementary submission 121.1, [p. 1].

[159]    MSDI, Supplementary submission 121.1, [p. 3].

[160]    See, for example, Cbus, Submission 139, p. 2.

[161]    MSDI, Submission 121, [p. 5]. See also ACFID, Submission 135, p. 9; SDSN Australia/Pacific, Submission 55, p. 4.

[162]    Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 16.

[163]    Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 11.

[164]    Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 16.

[165]    Mr Tinning, Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018, pp. 12–13.

[166]    SDSN Australia/Pacific, Submission 55, p. 2.

[167]    Professor Caroline Homer, Co-Program Director, Maternal and Child Health, Burnet Institute, Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 32.

[168]    Submission 55, p. 2.

[169]    University of Sydney, Submission 52, p. 4.

[170]    Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 9.

[171]    Ms Jacqueline Phillips, Director of Policy and Advocacy, ACOSS, Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, p. 36.

[172]    The Eastern Regional Organisation for Planning and Human Settlements (EAROPH) Australia, Submission 14, p. 1.

[173]    GCNA, Submission 130, [p. 3].

[174]    MSDI, Submission 121, [p. 1].

[175]    City of Melbourne, Submission 68, p. 2.

[176]    EAROPH Australia, answer to a question on notice, 7 December 2018 (received 18 December 2018), [p. 4]. 

[177]    GCNA, GCNA launches CEO Statement of Support for the SDGs, 7 September 2016.

[178]    Submission 121, [p. 2].

[179]    RIAA, Submission 131, [p. 6]. See also Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility, Re-imagining sustainable value: the Sustainable Development Goals gather pace—Annual Review of the State of CSR in Australia and New Zealand 2017.

[180]    Submission 1, p. 1.

[181]    Submission 1, p. 2.

[182]    See, for example, ACSI, Submission 92, [p. 1]; Business Council of Co-operatives and Mutuals, Submission 151, p. 6; Cbus, Submission 139, p. 2; Shared Value Project, Submission 49, p. 2.

[183]    Queensland Tourism Industry Council, Submission 76, p. 7; Shared Value Project, Submission 49, p. 2

[184]    Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 35.

[185]    Minerals Council of Australia (MCA), Sustainability in Action: Australian Mining and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, October 2018, p. 11.

[186]    Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 46.

[187]    MCA, Sustainability in Action, October 2018.

[188]    See for example, ACOSS, Submission 140, p. 2; Australian Parliamentary Group on Population and Development, Submission 116, [p. 1]; Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA), Submission 9, p. 2.

[189]     Both summits were co-hosted by ACFID, ACOSS, GCNA, SDSN Australia/Pacific, and the 2018 summit was also co-hosted by UNAA.

[190]    Australian SDGs Summit 2018: Outcomes Report, November 2018, p. 2.

[191]    BCSDA, Submission 48, [pp. 3–4]. This was convened by BCSDA, ACFID, ACOSS, ACTU, the Banksia Foundation, CDP, Green Building Council of Australia, Infrastructure Sustainability Council of Australia, National Farmers Federation, NSW Council for Social Service, Oxfam, SDSN, the University of Sydney Business School, and WWF-Australia.

[192]    Presented by the ACFID and ACOSS.

[193]    Mr Allen, Professor Metternicht and Associate Professor Wiedmann, Submission 17, p. 2; Global Compact—Cities Programme, Submission 103, [p. 2]; Vision 2020 Australia, Submission 19, p. 7.

[194]    SDSN Australia/Pacific, University Commitment to the SDGs, http://ap-unsdsn.org/regional-initiatives/universities-sdgs/university-commitment/ (accessed 11 January 2019).

[195]    The Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN), Submission 58, p. 2.

[196]    Delia Paul, 'UN Establishes 17 Academic Impact Hubs for SDGs', SDG Knowledge Hub, International Institute for Sustainable Development, 27 November 2018.

[197]    Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney, Submission 102, p. 5.

[198]    Dr Belinda Gibbons, University of Wollongong, answer to question on notice, 2 November 2018 hearing (received 22 November 2018), [p. 1].

[199]    SDSN Australia/Pacific, Submission 55, p. 2.

[200]    Western Australian SDG Network, Submission 114, p. 2.

[201]    Professor Jago Dodson, Global Advisor, UN Global Compact—Cities Programme, Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 56.

[202]    SDSN Australia/Pacific, Submission 55, p. 2.

[203]    MSDI, Submission 121, [p. 2].

[204]    SDSN Youth Australia/Pacific, Submission 141, p. 2.

[205]    SDSN Youth Australia/Pacific, National Youth Summit on the SDGs, 24 May 2017, http://ap-unsdsn.org/national-youth-summit-on-the-sdgs/ (accessed 11 January 2019).

[206]    Inaugural SDSN Youth Local Pathways Fellow for Melbourne, Submission 78, p. 3.

[207]    Committee Hansard, 26 November 2018, p. 4.

[208]    Committee Hansard, 26 November 2018, p. 4.

[209]    PwC, Submission 30, [p. 3].

[210]    See, for example, Oxfam Australia, Submission 18, p. 47; UNAA, Submission 47, p. 2; CSIRO, Submission 85, p. 5; One Stone Advisors, Submission 90, p. 2; MSDI, Submission 121, [p. 2]; AHRC, Submission 138, p. 5; GCNA, Submission 130, [p. 3].

[211]    For example, agronomist and NSW Young Sustainability Ambassador Miss Jessica Madsen writes a sustainability and agriculturally-theme blog (Submission 105, [p. 1]). Dr Jayne Meyer Tucker wrote about each of the SDGs on the Consequences Blog during 2017 (Submission 29).

[212]    Committee Hansard, 26 November 2018, p. 1.

[213]    Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018, p. 17.

[214]    Mr Clinton Moore, Vice-President of EAROPH Australia, Committee Hansard, 7 December 2018, p. 13.

[215]    GCNA, Submission 130, [p. 4]; UNAA, Submission 47, p. 2.

[216]    Mr Allen, Professor Metternicht and Associate Professor Wiedmann, Submission 17, p. 2.

[217]    Centre for Disaster Management and Public Safety and the Centre for Spatial Data Infrastructures and Land Administration, University of Melbourne Submission 75, [p. 1]; Global Compact—Cities Programme, Submission 103, [p. 2].

[218]    See, for example, UNAA, Submission 47, p. 2; RIAA, Submission 131, [pp. 11–12].

[219]    AHRC, Submission 138, pp. 6, 10.

[220]    See, for example, SSC, Submission 50, pp. 4–5; One Stone Advisors, Submission 90, p. 1.

[221]    Oxfam Australia, Submission 18, p. 47; UNICEF, Submission 87, p. 16.

[222]    Submission 78, p. 2.

[223]    Submission 47, p. 5.

[224]    Oxfam Australia, Submission 18, p. 46. See also the Australian Curriculum, 'Sustainability' https://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/f-10-curriculum/cross-curriculum-priorities/sustainability/ (accessed 6 July 2018).

[225]    See, for example, World Vision Australia, Submission 25, pp. 17–18; Oxfam Australia, Submission 18, p. 46; SDSN Australia/Pacific, Submission 55, p. 5; MSDI, Submission 121, [p. 2]; SDSN Youth Australia/Pacific, Submission 141, pp. 2–3; Ms Molla and Ms Griffin, Submission 72, pp. 15–16; SSC, Submission 50, pp. 4–5.

[226]    MSDI, Submission 121, [p. 2].

[227]    Ms Bauer-McPhee, Committee Hansard, 26 November 2018, p. 3.

[228]    Mr Heap, Committee Hansard, 26 November 2018, p. 4.

[229]    Submission 163, p. 4.

[230]    Committee Hansard, 26 November 2018, p. 2. See also Forrest Primary School, Submission 163, p. 2; Ava-Rose, Committee Hansard, 26 November 2018, p. 7; Ava, Committee Hansard, 26 November 2018, p. 5.

[231]    Submission 3, [p. 2]. 

[232]    Australian Academy of Science and Future Earth Australia, Submission 108, p. 9; UNAA, Submission 47, p. 9.

[233]    Submission 163, p. 3.

[234]    Submission 163, p. 3.

[235]    Miss Jessica Madsen, Submission 105.

[236]    Oxfam Australia, Submission 18, p. 46; Oxfam, answer to question on notice, 2 November 2018 (received 16 November 2018), [p. 2].

[237]    Oxfam Australia, Submission 18, p. 47; UNICEF, Submission 87, p. 16; SDSN Youth Australia/Pacific, Submission 141, pp. 1, 3; Monash University, Submission 120, p. 1, [original emphasis removed].

[238]    One Stone Advisors, Submission 90, p. 1; Ms Molla and Ms Griffin, Submission 72, p. 15.

[239]    UN, Compendium, 2018, p. 8.

[240]    Ms Molla and Ms Griffin, Submission 72, p. 15; ALIA, Submission 9, pp. 2–3.

[241]    Submission 127, p. 4.

[242]    Volunteering Australia, Submission 127, p. 3.

[243]    See, for example, the University of Sydney, Submission 52, p. 3; Volunteering Australia, Submission 127, p. 4; ACFID, Submission 135, p. 16; AHRC, Submission 138, p. 10; National Congress of Australia's First Peoples, Submission 154, p. 4.

[244]    Submission 18, p. 47.

[245]    Mr Allen, Professor Metternicht and Associate Professor Wiedmann, Submission 17, p. 6.

[246]    ACFID, Submission 135, p. 15; IWDA, Submission 98, p. 4; Oxfam Australia, Submission 18, p. 45.

[247]    Submission 135, p. 15.

[248]    Submission 25, pp. 16–17.

[249]    Submission 19, p. 7. See also AHRC, Submission 138, p. 10.

[250]    Volunteering Australia, Submission 127, p. 4; Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CA ANZ), Submission 43, p. 2.

[251]    Submission 130, [pp. 7, 4]. See also, CA ANZ, Submission 43, p. 2.

[252]    Submission 135, p. 15.

[253]    SDSN Australia/Pacific, Submission 55, p. 2; International Association for Public Participation Australasia, Submission 44, p. 4.

[254]    Forrest Primary School, Supplementary submission 163.1, p. 1.

[255]    Mary Ward International Australia, Submission 12, [p. 3].

[256]    Mr Moore, Submission 78, p. 5.

[257]    Public Health Association of Australia, Submission 99, p. 8.

[258]    Supplementary submission 163.2, p. 2; Claudette, Committee Hansard, 26 November 2018, p. 7.

[259]    Submission 50, pp. 3, 11.

[260]    Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, p. 21.

[261]    UNAA, Submission 47, p. 9; IWDA, Submission 98, p. 4. See, for an overview of some other campaigns, Malaka Gharib, 'The U.N. Wants You To Take A Selfie, Spin Around, Listen To A Llama', Goats and Soda, National Public Radio, 20 September 2015.

[262]    German Sustainable Development Strategy: Summary, 2016, (tabled by Mr Marc Purcell, ACFID, on 24 August 2018), p. 15.

[263]    UNAA, Submission 47, p. 2.

[264]    Senator the Hon Concetta Fierravanti-Wells, Minister for International Development and the Pacific, 'Keynote Address: 2^nd Australian SDG Summit', 13 March 2018; The Hon Julie Bishop MP, Foreign Minister, 'Speech at Banksia Ignite Launching Australia's first report on the implementation of SDGs', 15 June 2018. Both provided VNR forewords. Report on the Implementation of the SDGs, 2018, pp. 2–3.

[265]    Ms Rachel Livingston, Acting Assistant Secretary, Office for Women, PM&C, Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018, p. 25.

[266]    Committee Hansard, 26 November 2018, p. 4. See also Forrest Primary School, Submission 163, p. 8.

[267]    AHRC, Submission 138, p. 9. See also Fred Hollows Foundation, Submission 36, p. 5; SSC, Submission 50, p. 3.

[268]    SSC, Submission 50, p. 9. See also Mr Williamson, Submission 3, [p. 6].

[269]    Submission 90, p. 4. See also SSC, Submission 50, p. 10; Ms Molla and Ms Griffin, Submission 72, p. 15; SDSN Australia/Pacific, Submission 55, Attachment 1, p. 11.

[270]    Banksia Foundation, 'What we do' http://banksiafdn.com/about/ (accessed 6 July 2018); South East Queensland special network joint submission, Submission 53, [p. 3].

[271]    See, for example, World Vision Australia, Submission 25, p. 3; Good Shepherd Microfinance, on behalf of the Financial Inclusion Action Plan program, Submission 39, p. 8.

[272]    For example, Department of Health, Submission 143, p. 9; Department of Education and Training (DET), Submission 144, p. 3.

[273]    DFAT, Submission 60, pp. 6–7.

[274]    DoEE, Submission 115, p. 4.

[275]    Department of Industry, Innovation and Science, Submission 124, pp. 1–2.

[276]    Dr Alec Thornton and Mr Israel Dela Cruz, Submission 40, [p. 2]; Monash University, Submission 120, p. 4, [original emphasis removed].

[277]    Minerals Council of Australia, Submission 152, [p. 5].

[278]    Dr Thornton and Mr Dela Cruz, Submission 40, [p. 5]; IWDA, Submission 98, p. 4.

[279]    GCNA and DFAT, https://sdgs.org.au/ (accessed 2 July 2018).

[280]    GCNA, Australian SDGs Hub for Business, http://www.unglobalcompact.org.au/issues/sustainable-development/sustainable-development-goals-sdgs (accessed 14 January 2019).

[281]    Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018, p. 10.

[282]    DFAT, Submission 60, pp. 5–6; DoEE, Submission 115, p. 4.

[283]    DoEE, Submission 115, p. 4; DET, Submission 144, p. 3.

[284]    DFAT, Submission 60, p. 6.

[285]    PM&C, answer to question on notice, 7 December 2018 (received 18 January 2019), [p. 5].

[286]    Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018, pp. 54–­55.

[287]    Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018, pp. 54–55. See also Australian SDGs Summit 2018: Outcomes Report, p. 7.

[288]    Dr Cate Rogers, Assistant Secretary, Development Policy and Education Branch, Committee Hansard, 7 December 2018, pp. 19–20.

[289]    Mr Jason McDonald, Chief Adviser, Domestic Policy Group, PM&C, Committee Hansard, 7 December 2018, p. 20.

[290]    Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018, p. 17.

Chapter 6 - Supporting the SDGs through official development assistance

[1]        PwC, Submission 30, [p. 6]; Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), Submission 96, p. 3.

[2]        Minister for International Development and the Pacific, Senator the Hon Concetta Fierravanti-Wells, 'Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative: The Big Picture on Small States', Speech, Chatham House, London, 16 April 2018.

[3]        Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 8.

[4]        Submission 135, p. 10.

[5]        ACFID, Submission 135, p. 11; Global Citizen, Submission 22, p. 7; World Vision Australia, Submission 25, p. 1.

[6]        Submission 79, p. 7.

[7]        ACFID, Submission 135, p. 11.

[8]        Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018, p. 2. See also Oxfam Australia, Submission 18, p. 10.

[9]        DFAT, Submission 60, p. 3.

[10]      Submission 60, pp. 3–4, 12.

[11]      DFAT, Submission 60, pp. 6, 11; Dr Cate Rogers, Assistant Secretary, Development Policy and Education Branch, Committee Hansard, 7 December 2018, p. 14.

[12]      DFAT, Submission 60, p. 11.

[13]      Ms Stephanie Aeuckens, Director, Global Development Branch, DFAT, Committee Hansard, 24 August 2018, p. 38.

[14]      Submission 60, p. 5.

[15]      Submission 60, pp. 3–4.

[16]      DFAT, Submission 60, pp. 11–12.

[17]      DFAT, Submission 60, p. 11.

[18]      DFAT, Submission 60, pp. 9–10.

[19]      Submission 18, p. 12.

[20]      Submission 98, pp. 6–7.

[21]      Submission 60, pp. 9–10.

[22]      DFAT, Submission 60, pp. 9–10.

[23]      DFAT, Submission 60, pp. 9–10.

[24]      DFAT, Submission 60, p. 12.

[25]      Submission 60, pp. 9–10.

[26]      DFAT, Submission 60, pp. 10–11.

[27]      DFAT, Submission 60, pp. 10–11.

[28]      DFAT, Submission 60, pp. 10–11.

[29]      Department of the Environment and Energy (DoEE), Submission 115, p. 8.

[30]      DFAT, Submission 60, p. 12.

[31]      Submission 60, p. 12.

[32]      Submission 98, pp. 2–3.

[33]      OECD, OECD Development Co-operation Peer Reviews: Australia 2018, OECD Publishing, Paris, 2018, p. 19.

[34]      Submission 60, p. 10.

[35]      Submission 60, p. 13.

[36]      DFAT, Submission 60, p. 10.

[37]      Save the Children, Submission 84, p. 26; IWDA, Submission 98, p. 6; WWF-Australia, Submission 79, p. 7; Oxfam Australia, Submission 18, pp. 18-19.

[38]      Submission 98, pp. 2–3.

[39]      DFAT, Submission 60, p. 9.

[40]      DFAT, Submission 60, p. 9.

[41]      DFAT, Submission 60, p. 9.

[42]      DFAT, Submission 60, p. 9.

[43]      Australian Government, Report on the implementation of the SDGs, 2018, p. 110, [original emphasis removed].

[44]      Submission 85, p. 17.

[45]      See, for example, Business Call to Action (BCtA) and Business for Development, Submission 101, [pp. 7–8]; Crawford Fund, Submission 8, [p. 1]; Australasian College of Road Safety, Submission 160; Water Services Association of Australia, Submission 38.

[46]      See, for example, Mr Cameron Allen, Professor Graciela Metternicht and Associate Professor Thomas Wiedmann, Submission 17, p. 7; Oxfam Australia, Submission 18, p. 5; IWDA, Submission 98, p. 11; ACFID, Submission 135, pp. 11–12.

[47]      The University of Melbourne Centre for Disaster Management and Public Safety and Centre for Spatial Data Infrastructures and Land Administration's, Submission 75, [p. 5].

[48]      See, for example, Peacifica, answer to question on notice, 2 November 2018 (received 27 November 2018), [p. 2]; Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, Pacific Community and the Pacific SDG Partnership at UNDP, 2018 Pacific SDGs Progress Wheels, 2018.

[49]      See, for example, Burnet Institute, Submission 10, p. 5; Oaktree, Submission 42, p. 2; UNICEF, Submission 87, pp. 24–27.

[50]      DFAT, Submission 60, p. 14. See also Australian Government, Tracking Australia's progress on the SDGs, p. 23.

[51]      ABS, Submission 96, p. 6; ABS, answer to question on notice, 7 December 2018 (received 17 January 2019).

[52]      Eastern Regional Organisation for Planning and Human Settlements (EAROPH) Australia, answer to question on notice, 7 December 2018 (received 18 December 2018), [p. 3]. 

[53]      Geoscience Australia, Submission 74, [p. 14], DFAT, Submission 60, pp. 14–15; Australian Government, Tracking Australia's progress on the SDGs, pp. 18–19.

[54]      Dr Rogers, Committee Hansard, 7 December 2018, p. 21.

[55]      CSIRO, Submission 85, p. 37.

[56]      Miss Sarah Meredith, Country Director (Australia), Global Citizen, Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 31.

[57]      Peacifica, Submission 70, p. 2; Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption (GOPAC), Submission 107, [p. 3]; UNSW Law Society, Submission 20, p. 10; Dr Jarrett Blaustein, Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon and Professor Rob White, Submission 46, p. 5.

[58]      Peacifica, Submission 70, p. 3; Dr Blaustein, Dr Fitz-Gibbon and Professor White, Submission 46, p. 5.

[59]      See, for example, World Vision Australia, Submission 25, p. 8; Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) Australia/Pacific, Submission 55, p. 5; Western Sydney University, Submission 57, p. 3; Australian Civil Society Coalition on Women Peace and Security, Submission 59, p. 8; Plan International, Submission 67, p. 2.

[60]      UN, Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development—Resolution 70/1 pp. 1–2.

[61]      Submission 135, pp. 3–4. See also Mr Allen, Professor Metternicht and Associate Professor Wiedmann, Submission 17, p. 2.

[62]      Submission 85, p. 7.

[63]      Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Submission 102, Attachment 1, p. 4.

[64]      See, for example, Edmund Rice Centre, Submission 35, p. 2, [original emphasis removed]; WWF-Australia, Submission 79, p. 8; IWDA, Submission 98, pp. 1–2; 350 Australia, Submission 111, p. 3; Josephite Justice Office, Submission 113, p. 2.

[65]      The Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS, Submission 102, Attachment 1, p. 5.

[66]      Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 31.

[67]      See, for example, Fred Hollows Foundation, Submission 36, p. 6; Marie Stopes International, Submission 82, pp. 1–2.

[68]      See, for example, Dr Tapan Sarker, Submission 15, pp. 4–5; Business Council of Co-operatives and Mutuals, Submission 151, p. 8, [original emphasis removed]; Monash University, Submission 120, p. 5.

[69]      See, for example, Oxfam Australia, Submission 18, p. 10; University of Sydney, Submission 52, p. 3; Plan International, Submission 67, p. 3.

[70]      Professor Caroline Homer, Co-Program Director, Maternal and Child Health, Burnet Institute, Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 30. See also Mr Chris Turner, Executive Officer and Regional Director, Marie Stopes International Australia, Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 31.

[71]      Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, p. 37.

[72]      Submission 60, p. 14.

[73]      Submission 60, p. 14.

[74]      Submission 60, p. 12.

[75]      OECD, OECD Development Co-operation Peer Reviews: Australia 2018, p. 81.

[76]      Submission 60, p. 11.

[77]      Submission 85, p. 18.

[78]      Mr Allen, Professor Metternicht and Associate Professor Wiedmann, Submission 17, p. 8.

[79]      Catrina Rowe, 'Harnessing the power of data to tell a regional story', Pacific Office in Fiji, UNDP website, 16 September 2018.

[80]      UNAA, Submission 47, p. 9. See also Pacific Island Forum, Pacific Roadmap for Sustainable Development, September 2017.

[81]      DFAT, answer to question taken on notice on 25 October 2018, Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee.

[82]      Australian Government, Tracking Australia's progress on the SDGs, pp. 24, 26.

[83]      Mr Allen, Professor Metternicht and Associate Professor Wiedmann, Submission 17, p. 7.

[84]      Submission 70, p. 5.

[85]      Australian Government, Tracking Australia's progress on the SDGs, p. 26; UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, Regional Road Map for Implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific, 2017.

[86]      Australian Government, Tracking Australia's progress on the SDGs, p. 26.

[87]      UN in the Pacific, United Nations Pacific Strategy 2018 – 2022, 2017, p. 15.

[88]      UN in the Pacific, United Nations Pacific Strategy 2018 – 2022, UN in the Pacific, 2017, p. 15.

[89]      EAROPH Australia, answer to question on notice, 7 December 2018 (received 18 December 2018), [p. 2]. 

[90]      EAROPH Australia, answer to question taken on notice, 7 December 2018 (received 18 December 2018), [p. 2]. 

[91]      IWDA, Submission 98, p. 7.

[92]      IWDA, Submission 98, p. 7; Peacifica, answer to question on notice, 2 November 2018 (received 27 November 2018), [pp. 3–4].

[93]      Submission 98, p. 7.

[94]      Victoria University Timor-Leste Reference Group, Submission 65, Attachment 1.

[95]      Submission 60, p. 11.

[96]      Oxfam Australia, Submission 18, p. 49.

[97]      Oxfam Australia, Submission 18, p. 49.

[98]      Oxfam Australia, Submission 18, p. 49.

[99]      University of Sydney, Submission 52, p. 6. See also Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS, Submission 102, Attachment 1, p. 4; RESULTS Australia, Submission 71, p. 5; Burnet Institute, Submission 10, p. 2; Oaktree, Submission 42, [p. 2].

[100]    Submission 87, p. 19.

[101]    World Vision Australia, Submission 25, p. 21.

[102]    ACFID, Submission 135, p. 10.

[103]    ACFID, Submission 135, pp. 6, 10.

[104]    See, for example, IWDA, Submission 98, p. 10; Global Citizen, Submission 122, p. 7; Equality Rights Alliance, Submission 149, p. 4; CBM Australia, Submission 93, p. 2; Vision 2020 Australia, Submission 19, p. 15; the Fred Hollows Foundation, Submission 36, p. 2; Dr Nina Hall and Professor Karen Hussey, Submission 76, p. 13.

[105]    Oxfam Australia, Submission 18, p. 8.

[106]    Target 17.2, UN, Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development—Resolution 70/1, pp. 11, 26. 

[107]    OECD, OECD Development Co-operation Peer Reviews: Australia 2018, p. 23.

[108]    Senator the Hon Fierravanti-Wells, 'Address to the Australian Council for International Development National Conference', Melbourne, 1 November 2017.

[109]    UN, Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development (Addis Ababa Action Agenda)—Resolution 69/313, p. 17. See also UN, Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development—Resolution 70/1, p. 11.

[110]    UN, Addis Ababa Action Agenda, p. 21.

[111]    Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 47.

[112]    Submission 135, p. 14.

[113]    ACFID, Submission 135, p. 14.

[114]    ACFID, Submission 135, p. 14.

[115]    Cardno International Development, Submission 64, p. 1.

[116]    Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 43.

[117]    Committee Hansard, 29 October 2018, p. 44.

[118]    Submission 64, p. 1.

[119]    Submission 101, [p. 11].

[120]    Submission 101, [p. 6].

[121]    OECD, OECD Development Co-operation Peer Reviews: Australia 2018, p. 19.

[122]    Submission 60, p. 7.

[123]    Shared Value Project, Submission 49, p. 5.

[124]    Business Call to Action and Business for Development, Submission 101, [p. 5].

[125]    DFAT, 'What is the Business Partnerships Platform?', http://dfat.gov.au/aid/who-we-work-with/private-sector-partnerships/bpp/Pages/what-is-the-business-partnerships-platform.aspx (accessed 11 July 2018).

[126]    Business Call to Action and Business for Development, Submission 101, [p. 5].

[127]    DFAT, Submission 60, pp. 13–14.

[128]    DFAT, Submission 60, pp. 13–14.

Dissenting Report from Coalition Senators

[1]        Australian Government, Report on the implementation of the SDGs, 2018, p. 7.

[2]        Australian Government, Report on the implementation of the SDGs, 2018, p. 6.

[3]        Professor Graciela Metternicht Committee Hansard, 2 November 2018, p. 9.

[4]        https://sdgs.org.au/about-us/ (accessed 6 February 2019).

[5]        DFAT, Submission 60, p. 11.

[6]        DFAT, Submission 60, p. 4.

[7]        See, for example, the Australian Council for International Development, Submission 135, p. 11.