The Fifth State: How do you put a rocket under the push to transition Australia’s economy and leading corporates to renewable energy?

Published 21 Nov 2019

First, you get Atlassian boss Mike Cannon-Brookes on stage at his Sydney headquarters, plus Michael Liebreich who founded Bloomberg New Energy Finance, plus outfits like Ikea and Unilever. You draw in audience members such as Simon Holmes a Court, some of the big four banks, Lendlease, Dexus, GPT, Bunnings, Coles, Woolworths, ALDI, Bluescope Steel, the Green Building Council, clean energy champion Tim Buckley plus a huge array of other leading companies, many in the property and retails sector. And you get Jon Dee, well known for his media profile and campaigning for environmental issues, to organise the lot through the foundation he runs DoSomething, and make him the catalyst for the Australian version of the RE100 movement.