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"I always had a really strong sense of social justice running through my veins, which was influenced by my dad…He just instilled in me this idea that it's really important," she says.After graduating from Sydney Uni, Sally found a home at GetUp, the online campaigning community. There, she was thrown in the deep end during an especially torrid yet successful campaign against the Gunns pulp mill in Tasmania. The experience pitted her and the rest of the GetUp team against one of Australia's most influential corporations—the ANZ Bank—not to mention the Federal government, led in this case by an unlikely adversary in former Midnight Oil frontman, Peter Garrett.READ MORE: 'Mandatory evacuation' North Dakota governor issues executive order to clear out Standing Rock protest camp
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She also expressed excitement over teams of lawyers across the European Union who were banding together to create the legal framework (for corporations) to act more responsibly. "Right now company directors are legally bound to act in the interests of their shareholders and if they don't they can be sued and lose their job," she says.Then there are the countless startups and B-Corps ("for-profit companies certified by the nonprofit B Lab to meet rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency") founded on the idea of succeeding in the business world while pushing the ethical framework at the core of their DNA."The most exciting companies I've seen in the last five to 10 years have emerged out of trying to solve problems with a business model," she says.Then Trump got elected and the sky fell in."I wonder whether we've totally forgotten everything we've learned about race and equality and social justice? Have we forgotten we've lived through two World Wars? Have we forgotten all the stuff that has gotten us to this point?" she begins.
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