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New PwC chief executive Kevin Burrowes is on vacation in the Maldives.

PwC’s Kevin Burrowes, an American agent on Maldives vacation

Burrowes’ job is to destroy PwC Australia, if necessary, to protect PwC Global. That is his sole performance metric.

  • Joe Aston
Health Minister Mark Butler: back negotiating with the guild.

Pharmacy Guild bends ears at Labor national conference

Guild president Trent Twomey was a familiar sight in Brisbane as he vigorously pressed his case with decision-makers.

  • Myriam Robin

This Month

Anthony Albanese should exercise better judgment, and proper disclosure.

Anthony Albanese’s son in PwC internship

We would be very happy to leave Nathan Albanese out of our coverage but that would require his father to exercise better judgment and proper disclosure.

  • Joe Aston and Myriam Robin
Billionaire Clive Palmer.

Just another lawsuit for Clive Palmer

The billionaire was the secret litigation funder of a now abandoned class action by Telstra employees against the company’s vaccine mandate.

  • Joe Aston
Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke has a big agenda.

Employment department underpaid staff

The department charged with making sure employers don’t short-change workers has discovered it’s been doing just that.

  • Myriam Robin
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The stately facade of the Royal Automobile Club of Sydney.

Royal Automobile Club of Australia sued by ex-CEO

David Fischer’s suit charts the particulars of a violently deteriorating relationship with the club’s president Stephen Hathway.

  • Myriam Robin
Transport Minister Catherine King has given yet another car crash interview on her decision to block new Qatar Airways flights to Australia.

Minister for Qantas Catherine King crashes on take-off

King is now offering the fourth different rationale for her Qatar Airways decision in as many weeks.

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  • Joe Aston
Quadrant managing partner Jonathan Pearce was named one of Australia’s top dealmakers in December.

Early obituary for Quadrant’s Jonathon Pearce

We knew private equity was competitive, but are reappraising its sheer bitchiness.

  • Myriam Robin
KPMG CEO Andrew Yates, whose home was in the end not shown (much) on Four Corners.

ABC leaves door-knock of KPMG chief on cutting-room floor

It’s not just Woodside getting hot-and-bothered about an ABC crew on its CEO’s door.

  • Myriam Robin
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Qantas CEO Alan Joyce at an event at Sydney Airport on August 14, 2023.

Qantas the only voice reaching Anthony Albanese

You’d be forgiven for wondering if Albo is trying to lose the Voice referendum.

  • Joe Aston
Scott Morrison in question time last week. The former prime minister’s old policy chief Brendan Tegg is suing his previous employer, TG Advisory.

ScoMo’s ex-policy wonk suing lobbying firm

For Labor lobbyists, these are the years of plenty. For everyone else, not so much. 

  • Myriam Robin
BOQ chief executive Patrick Allaway.

Patrick Allaway having his way with BoQ

On Monday, his brass nameplate was finally drilled in, yet the question persists: does Allaway really know how to run a retail bank?

  • Joe Aston
Ex-premier Dominic Perrottet is keeping his options open.

Business Council wanted Dom Perrottet as next CEO

Before signing up the little-known Bran Black, the nation’s big business lobby actually approached his old boss.

  • Myriam Robin
Mike Cannon-Brookes, AGL’s largest shareholder, says the energy giant is one of the most toxic companies on the planet.

Mike Cannon-Brookes not counting sheep

Cannon-Brookes speaks of AGL as a “toxic” company like some kind of outsider, not its single largest shareholder.

  • Joe Aston
Mark Barnaba, sans eagle-feather headdress

Gyrating Mark Barnaba helps surprise Malcolm McCusker

Things are very different on that side of the Nullarbor.

  • Myriam Robin
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Class action crusader Erin Brockovich has been a long-standing ambassador for Shine.

Shine’s pelvic mesh victory turns sour

The legal firm tried to bill class action members the ‘usurious’ interest rates on loan facilities they didn’t know about.

  • Myriam Robin
Harbourside views are hard to keep. The denizens of Sydney’s eastern suburbs want two things: harbour-side views, and privacy.

Stockbroker’s home renos approved by NSW’s highest court

Old hands professed themselves baffled this particular dispute went as long and as far as it did.

  • Myriam Robin
Alan Joyce performed his final tour of Canberra on Wednesday.

Alan Joyce’s retirement tour storms Canberra

Joyce and Hudson hosted an intimate dinner for a select group of parliamentarians in the members’ private dining room on Wednesday.

  • Joe Aston
A decidedly bearded Kevin Rudd will from Thursday gaze down from the rows of prime ministers at Parliament House when his official portrait is unveiled.

Behold the bearded Kevin Rudd

In office, the former prime minister was clean-shaven. Not so in his official portrait, which will be unveiled on Thursday.

  • Myriam Robin
Ex-PwC chief executive Luke Sayers.

Luke Sayers is not reading the room

Sayers doesn’t think he’s done a single thing wrong. This is all just another level in the video game of his professional climbing.

  • Joe Aston