EY is a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services. Our dedicated, multidisciplinary team of professionals assist businesses as they seek to move their sustainability plan to the next level.

Being proud supporters of the Banksia Awards enables us to effectively move the sustainability agenda forward in the communities in which we operate, including;

• Climate change and energy, sustainability assurance, audits, benchmarking, sustainability strategy, supply chain, human rights and capacity building.
• Social impact advisory, strategy and program design, evaluation and measurement and Social Return on Investment (SROI).
• Health, safety and environment audits, management systems, assurance and reporting frameworks, environmental performance, waste and resource efficiency.

A purpose-led transformation drives EY to deliver our global goal to build a better working world.

Everyday Australia Post helps people, communities, businesses, and government organisations stay connected no matter how big or small and no matter where they are located. Our operations across Australia is unmatched, delivering millions of critical information and items each week to millions of people, including 4,400 urban post offices and 2,560 in rural and remote areas. Australia Post has a network of Business Hubs designed to support our business customers, and we also provide a range of eCommerce solutions.

Due to our extensive reach, we can positively impact thousands of Australian communities to help build a better future for Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians. We aim to enable positive environmental and sustainable outcomes while delivering exceptional value for our customers, workforce, and community.

Currie uses the power of business to change things for the better. We give voices to people and organisations that sustain and improve our food through market strategies, storytelling and stakeholder engagement to benefit our land and our planet. We are proud B Corp certified and a participant in the United Nations Global Compact initiative,

Currie Communications works with leaders who aren’t afraid to start difficult conversations about complex challenges, and we help them turn their visions into strategies and stories that make sense. Currie is fully committed to playing its part in creating a sustainable future – a fairer, safer and kinder future for all.

For over a century L’Oréal has been dedicated to one sole vocation: creating beauty. Our goal is to offer each and every person around the world the best of beauty in terms of quality, efficacy, safety, sincerity and responsibility to satisfy all beauty needs and desires in their infinite diversity.

At L’Oréal our purpose is to Create the Beauty that Moves the World. This statement is also reflective of our daily commitments to make a positive impact through our actions for our employees, consumers, communities and the planet. For instance, we commit that every new innovation should be more sustainable than the previous one. As a business organisation, we focus on this purpose without taking sides in matters of a political or religious nature.

For Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA), as the Australian red meat and livestock industry’s research and marketing service provider, sustainability is at the centre of all that we do and informs our priorities and investment decisions.

For MLA and the Australian red meat and livestock industry, sustainability means the production of livestock in a way that is environmentally, socially and financially responsible with respect to our people, our animals and our natural resources. MLA’s research and development investments are focused on demonstrating that sustainability goes hand in hand with productivity and long term inter-generational success.

Tourism Australia has partnered with the Banksia Foundation to support the inaugural Sustainable Tourism Award. As the tourism industry emerges in recovery and rebuild mode from the pandemic, this award will recognise and reward outstanding achievements in championing the protection, conservation, and regeneration of the diverse natural environments that make Australia so appealing to travellers. Protecting the natural environment across Australia whilst securing, nurturing, and supporting the economic and physical wellbeing of community and culture, both Indigenous and local. In short, the award recognises those tourism businesses that are nurturing and protecting the very things our visitors within and to Australia travel for.

MCEC is Melbourne’s home of unconventional. We host more than 1,000 events each year, each one like no other. We have beautiful spaces, innovative menus and the best people in the business. Our team are not just the best at what they do, they’re the best at doing things no-one else has done before. All this comes together for moments that will stay with you long after your event.

We are a global engagement and marketing agency that creates human-centric touchpoints that unleash the power of people to deliver innovation and growth.

Firm believers in the power of building community since 1987, we are helping brands, associations and not-for-profit organisations solve their key people challenges through our core expertise:

• Live & virtual events
• Strategic & digital communications
• Consulting & community solutions

Since its inception, Informed 365 has been a driver of collaboration and innovation in the Ethical Sourcing and Modern Slavery space, with a primary focus on the empowerment of organisations to make better, more informed decisions around their supply chains.

For Informed 365, this highlighted the need to provide an agile tech solution that draws on third-party data sources as well as works with the workforce, NGOs, governments, industry bodies, academia, and ethical sourcing experts to deliver a “one-source-of-truth” platform.

As a global healthcare company, we’ve been looking after people’s health for over 75 years.

Our commitment to sustainability starts with our purpose: “Helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world”.

Our approach to sustainability is focused on the clear connection between human health and the health of the planet.

Building a healthier future for people and planet.