"Company assessments: Explanations for human rights commitments’ scores of top Australian companies", February 2025

This is a supplementary report to the report, Commitment gaps: A human rights assessment of top Australian companies, published by Macquarie University’s Business & Human Rights Access to Justice Lab (A2J Lab). While the main report provides an overall assessment of the commitment of top 25 companies listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) to respect human rights in line with the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs), this supplementary report offers explanations for the scores assigned to each company for specific indicators. Both reports should be read together for a full understanding of the assessment.

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The indicators and requirements are set out in Part II of the report. The companies were assessed under both Score 1 and Score 2 of each indicator, across all three themes. The scores frequently contain multiple requirements (‘AND’ terminology) and alternative requirements (‘OR’ terminology). Because of this, the score reasoning provided in the company assessments have been split into paragraphs as either ‘Met’ or ‘Not Met’ under each Score 1 and Score 2. This allows stakeholders to consider the score reasons against each criterion described under the indicator.

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Each company assessment, in Part III of this report, includes a list of the documents reviewed in the assessment,⁴ as well as a score summary. It then provides reasoning for each of the assigned score, which may be read adjacently to the indicator descriptions in Part II. Even though all documents were reviewed under each indicator, only the documents relevant to a specific requirement is referenced in the score reasoning.

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