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Summary

This report details the company's progress in embedding its three strategic sustainability priorities ' Everyone Connected, Environmental leadership and Employee involvement.

Report Highlights

Telstra has released its Bigger Picture 2015 Sustainability Report, detailing the company’s progress in embedding its three strategic sustainability priorities – Everyone Connected, Environmental leadership and Employee involvement – and in responding to the issues that matter most to its operations and stakeholders.
Telstra’s 2015 report is available at www.telstra.com/sustainability/report and a high level overview of the company’s strategic approach and performance is provided in the infographic attached.

Performance highlights for FY15 include:

•    Reducing carbon emissions intensity by 27 per cent
•    Assisting more than one million vulnerable customers through the Telstra Access for Everyone program
•    Reaching almost 117,000 people through digital literacy training programs
•    Launching Telstra Safe Connections to help women impacted by domestic violence to stay connected
•    Launching a new accessibility portal – a world first for a telecommunications company – making it easier for people with disability to choose devices that are right for them
•    Introducing real-time mobile data usage alerts for post-paid mobile customers to help manage bill shock
•    Avoiding over 35,000 tonnes of carbon emissions through energy efficiency initiatives
•    Being named an Employer of Choice by the Australian Government Workplace Gender Equality Agency
•    Telstra and its employees donating $1.5 million to over 300 charities through matched payroll giving and increasing volunteering days in the community by more than 40 per cent

Telstra’s 2015 Sustainability Report was developed in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) G4 Core Sustainability Reporting Guidelines. Limited assurance over specified data and related performance disclosures throughout Telstra’s reporting has been provided by Ernst & Young, in accordance with the ISAE 3000 Assurance Standard (2013). The report also details Telstra’s progress in implementing the ten principles of the United Nations Global Compact.

Telstra welcomes feedback on its sustainability reporting, approach and performance. Please email Tim O’Leary, Chief Sustainability Officer at sustainability@team.telstra.com

About Telstra

Telstra is Australia’s leading telecommunications and information services company, offering a full range of communications services and competing in all telecommunications markets.  In Australia, Telstra provides approximately 16.7 million retail mobile services, 6.0 million retail fixed voice services and 3.1 million retail fixed data services. Telstra’s international businesses operate in 20 countries around the world and include its global networks and managed services business, as well as China-based search and advertising business, Autohome Inc.

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