Today
Lachlan Murdoch returns home to executives on the edge
The media mogul returns to Australia with global CEO Robert Thomson, grappling with another News Corp restructure.
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- Mark Di Stefano
ScoMo brings Rudd closer to Trump
At Washington DC in front of Republican dignitaries, Scott Morrison finally spoke to a room familiar with his cadence.
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- Myriam Robin
Yesterday
Gina Rinehart lobbies NGA to remove Indigenous portrait
The country’s richest resident has made her displeasure privately known about a portrait at the national institution.
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- Mark Di Stefano
Liontown’s Tim Goyder turns up to thank Jim Chalmers
Heavy hitters wary of party political functions have grown fond of the National Press Club’s Great Hall lunch.
- Myriam Robin
This Month
Bull and the budget: supplicants take over Canberra
As the treasurer hands down his third budget, hasn’t he aroused a stupendous chorus of critics.
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- Myriam Robin and Mark Di Stefano
PM’s pension now in the hands of Stephen Jones
Five still-serving Labor parliamentarians will have their pension schemes tweaked by the financial services minister. As will all the nation’s senior judges.
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- Myriam Robin
Perpetual’s Greg Cooper knows KKR well
Perpetual’s now deputy-chairman is a distant relative on the KKR family tree.
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- Myriam Robin
BHP’s Mike Henry traverses the globe by private jet
The mining giant has rented a private jet for its global M&A push on Anglo American.
- Mark Di Stefano
Sportsbet’s secret NRL gambling funnel
The bookmaker used a shell company to shield involvement in a tipping competition, which skirted advertising regulations and promoted gambling offers.
- Mark Di Stefano
Seven makes Albo pay for Perth snub
If you want to know the cost of inadvertently snubbing Seven in Perth, look no further than the front page of Wednesday’s The West Australian.
- Myriam Robin and Mark Di Stefano
Billionaire Kerry Stokes takes it all very personally
In the media business, he who controls distribution, controls all.
- Mark Di Stefano and Myriam Robin
Daniel Besen’s mansion gets craned
You might buy a $20 million trophy home with all the bells and whistles you can hope for. But who says someone won’t, one day, drop a crane on it.
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- Myriam Robin
Tim Gurner’s anti-ageing expert faces regulatory probe
The Rich Lister and long-life advocate’s research svengali has been served with an interim prohibition order.
- Mark Di Stefano
Macquarie’s Tim Joyce puts annual conference to good use
There’s nothing like the annual Macquarie Australia conference to drive home the synergies available to the full-service investment bank.
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- Myriam Robin
Board bought time for Kogan execs to settle $17 million windfall
Recently released emails show how the Kogan board delayed the settling of executive bonuses for cash, helping the return.
- Mark Di Stefano
PwC’s failed complaint over professor’s spicy LinkedIn posts
Andy Schmulow’s more polite jibes included calling PwC “a cancer” on society, “thugs in suits”, and a “parasite”. PwC reckons it’s all beyond the pale.
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- Myriam Robin
Stefanovic’s Indigenous teen clanger, brought to you by Sportsbet
The online bookmaking giant turned the 19-year-old into a walking sandwich board for the company, showing (once again) it just can’t help itself.
- Mark Di Stefano
Vanessa Hudson’s ACCC settlement is six months too late
Vanessa Hudson could have made settling the ACCC case a hallmark of her regime. Nine months after her elevation, it’s a little late for that.
- Myriam Robin
Stephen Jones boosts dud Islamic super fund
The minister in charge of the super sector still provides tacit endorsement to a fund that performs so badly it is being regulated out of stand-alone existence.
- Myriam Robin
Ruslan Kogan, tell ’em the price son
Blessings never cease for the founder-CEO who keeps getting a great deal from his board.
- Mark Di Stefano
