Yesterday
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
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’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
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
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
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
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.
- Updated
- Joe Aston
Early obituary for Quadrant’s Jonathon Pearce
We knew private equity was competitive, but are reappraising its sheer bitchiness.
- Myriam Robin
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
Qantas the only voice reaching Anthony Albanese
You’d be forgiven for wondering if Albo is trying to lose the Voice referendum.
- Joe Aston
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
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
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 not counting sheep
Cannon-Brookes speaks of AGL as a “toxic” company like some kind of outsider, not its single largest shareholder.
- Joe Aston
Gyrating Mark Barnaba helps surprise Malcolm McCusker
Things are very different on that side of the Nullarbor.
- Myriam Robin
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
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’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
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
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