Social Prosperity: Comments by Michael Chaney

As he describes it, there has been a ‘remarkable sea change’ in the attitude of business to social issues and to providing social support to the community. A decade ago, he says, business people would have considered that was the role and responsibility of governments. ‘Today, no one would say that. Everyone recognises that business has a role to play in providing social support in the sense that a healthy society is good for business … on the whole, in Australia, in my experience, people are starting to recognise that business is doing more than just earning profits’.

From ‘Corporate Captains to Focus on Society’ By Jennifer Hewett, The Australian, 27 October 2007, p. 34.