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The Australian Club made a $1.2m loss in 2022.

Leaked letter lashes Australia Club’s ‘ungentlemanly’ gossiping

Smoking pipes indoors? Gossiping about one’s fellow members? Things are turning decidedly spicy at Melbourne’s Australian Club.

  • Myriam Robin
WAM’s Geoff Wilson and Bubble O’Phil.

Geoff Wilson wants Bill Ackman’s very online notoriety

Funds management and dividend guru Geoff Wilson has logged on.

  • Myriam Robin and Mark Di Stefano
Former premier Mike Baird, pictured with former NAB chief Andrew Thorburn, upon joining the bank in April 2017.

Andrew Thorburn lands CEO role at HammondCare

At his new job, the one-time NAB CEO’s Christianity is unlikely to be an issue.

  • Myriam Robin

This Month

Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones says the bill doesn’t reflect the government’s position.

Stephen Jones is (still) out of his depth

Stephen Jones aimed for “quick wins” on his legislative agenda. Instead, the government introduced a bill accidentally banning insurance commissions.

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  • Myriam Robin
Outgoing Seven West Media CEO James Warburton.

Ghosts of Seven’s past return to haunt executives

Outgoing Seven West Media CEO James Warburton preps his successor, as the notice period drags on.

  • Mark Di Stefano
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Trevor St Baker, patron of the Coalition for Conservation.

Energy billionaire Trevor St Baker goes nuclear

Former NSW treasurer Matt Kean brought forward his resignation from the Coalition for Conservation over the pro-nuclear involvement of the Rich Lister.

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  • Mark Di Stefano
Lindsay Fox with his son, Peter, who is Linfox’s executive chairman.

Fox takes cash-strapped, cash-trucking empire to the brink

No one minds when it’s the big banks over a barrel. It’s deliciously novel. But who believes that’s where this dispute will stay?

  • Myriam Robin
Michael Usher (left) interviews Mark Llewellyn at SXSW in Sydney.

Spotlight’s Mark Llewellyn, in Bruce Lehrmann’s reflection

The explosive affidavit now at the centre of the Lehrmann saga details the alleged involvement of Seven’s TV producer extraordinaire.

  • Myriam Robin and Mark Di Stefano
National Storage managing director Andrew Catsoulis in 2014.

Lovestruck bosses out from Brisbane storage giant

Two top executives at the $3.3 billion ASX-listed National Storage had an extramarital affair which became the talk of Brisbane. Both are now gone.

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  • Mark Di Stefano
For Labor, the road to Parliament House runs through the Federal Labaor Business Forum.

Labor’s $5m fundraising chief turns lobbyist

As director of the Federal Labor Business Forum, Kate Dykes spent 12 years as the all-important cog in the Labor fundraising machine. 

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  • Myriam Robin
Damage to a pipeline and manganese loading port at Groote Eylandt as a result of Cyclone Megan.

South32 CEO has $8m reasons to rue that cyclone

Can he secure his long-term incentives for the first time since FY16? It’d be easier if not for Cyclone Megan.

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  • Myriam Robin
Luke Sayers with Geelong’s Tom Hawkins at the Penfolds’ marquee at the Melbourne Cup last year.

Luke Sayers is done with the PwC scandal. It’s not done with him

Unethical behaviour “ignored”. “Implausible”. “Scarcely credible”. How can this assessment be any worse?

  • Myriam Robin and Mark Di Stefano

March

Daniel Petre and Craig Blair in 2016.

Dirty laundry at AirTree staring everyone in the face

The public telling of the story of AirTree – one of Australia’s premier VC firms – keeps omitting the relationship between the co-founders.

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  • Mark Di Stefano
PwC Australia CEO Kevin Burrowes and chief risk officer Jan McCahey at the Senate inquiry into consulting.

PwC’s ‘project Snow Gum’ eyes sale to big four rival

PwC sought buyers for the firm’s indigenous consultancy unit, once a source of great pride. Enter Deloitte.

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  • Mark Di Stefano
Daniel Andrews, right, was health minister in 2010 under premier John Brumby.

Break or breakthrough: the red flags at Victoria’s VC fund

Breakthrough Victoria was formed after its now-chairman, John Brumby, called for the establishment of such a fund.

  • Myriam Robin
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Harry Triguboff is restocking Meriton's serviced apartment holdings.

Dirty Harrys: Triguboff faces final stand against Seidler synagogue

Among Sydney’s property-obsessed hoi polloi, a showdown between Harry Seidler and Harry Triguboff was always going to make headlines.

  • Tom McIlroy
Bruce Lehrmann leaves court.

The Bruce Lehrmann saga is a radioactive snowball

The sordid scandal around the former staffer keeps claiming victims and ruining reputations.

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  • Mark Di Stefano
Red Bull’s Max Verstappen led the field at the start of the Australian Grand Prix. Though not for long.

The bizoids learning to rev at the Grand Prix

Corporate types flocked bright and early to Albert Park’s Paddock Club, which by 2pm on Sunday was full to heaving for Melbourne’s Grand Prix.

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  • Myriam Robin
Tom Seymour has had a soft landing from his tumultuous final months at PwC.

Ex-PwC chief Tom Seymour joins the mattress business

The ex-PwC CEO has been a director of the holding companies behind Sealy Posturepedic since December.

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  • Myriam Robin
Hot and cold:  Weebit Nano CEO Coby Hanoch.

ASX hater Weebit Nano must be a wee bit joking

The once fast-rising Israeli semiconductor company now hates the ASX. It was all so different 12 months ago.

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  • Mark Di Stefano