Proustian slip: AICD's Elizabeth defends indefensible
The AICD is the least qualified of all to tell any of us who should or shouldn't sit on public company boards.
Joe Aston writes The Australian Financial Review's Rear Window column on weekdays, while his Saturday column, The Adventures of Joe Aston, appears in AFR Weekend. Joe also reports on cricket for Fairfax Media titles and for Wide World of Sports on the Nine Network. He is based in Sydney.
The AICD is the least qualified of all to tell any of us who should or shouldn't sit on public company boards.
Aunty's board was briefly short of its requisite Jewish investment banker. All is again right with the world!
This one had it all: Georgina Downer Canberra-bound and Peter Costello's act of sheer bastardry.
Reading Blue Sky's latest bad news was like reading the work of Blackadder's book keeper.
Myer's self-elected executive chairman Garry Hounsell is apparently not a fan of his marketing department's contract with US songbird Katy Perry.
Former Wesfarmers and Boral chairman Bob Every quit Cricket Australia’s board on Friday, openly fed up with the governing body’s management ...
If there's any rubber chicken we'll still burn jet fuel to front up to, it's the Sydney Institute's annual dinner.
The same ethicists who gave John Coates' AOC a clean bill of cultural health now sit in judgment of Cricket Australia. More of the same ...
How is constructing a club of gender to usurp one of class the answer to any question of talent?
The national game enters its second consecutive home season in very rough reputational shape.
While CPA's new board is populated entirely by fresh faces, the same old apparatchiks inhabit the periphery.
Now do we know what it actually takes to lose your spot in Australia's cosy company director's club?
Healthscope chairman Paula Dwyer had a hunch something was being cooked up among her major shareholders.
Unlike Rob Shand who merely misled by omission, Morison has unambiguously deceived his investors.
Rockpool's chairman Chris Hadley was keeping the revenue line strong during Tuesday's pre-Anzac lunch hour.
It is difficult to overstate the irreparable injury Catherine Brenner is causing her reputation by digging in and vainly fighting to rehabil...
Blue Sky's acid rain provided perfect cover for iSelect's own Monday meltdown.
Ah, so bank boards want to tie executive pay to ethical organisational culture but shareholders just won't allow it? Riiiiight...
Only permanent residents of Fantasia could possibly imagine Brenner surviving this week.
Shand was nicknamed "The Benchmark" because in Mark Sowerby's eyes, his performance was exactly that for everyone else to aspire to.
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