Today
How $116 in travel expenses blew up a public servant’s life
A defamation judgment against Kerry Stokes’ newspaper is a grim tale of expenses and shoddy journalism.
- Mark Di Stefano
Yesterday
Sydney power restaurant hosts another Rinehart dinner
Australia’s richest resident gathered political and non-political friends at the Blue Angel.
- Mark Di Stefano
Liberals still want vindication on Brittany Higgins saga
Suggestions we need to understand how the Higgins allegations affected the last election are telling. But satisfaction is unlikely.
- Myriam Robin
This Month
Gina Rinehart stages rich private fundraisers for Peter Dutton
It seemed obvious that the federal opposition leader’s grovelling at the feet of the country’s richest person would bear fruit. Now it has.
- Mark Di Stefano
Robert Bates holidays in Italy aboard Packer yacht
Investors allege the Aquamamma founder made baseless claims about the companies’ financial success. All while he slathers on the sunscreen.
- Jessica Sier
Guzman y Gomez is a Morgans special with the lot
The Brisbane-based broker quietly co-led the company’s IPO, with its junior sell-side analyst even getting his slice.
- Myriam Robin and Mark Di Stefano
Roaring Keith! Ex-mining minister buys booming coal stocks
Australian mining stocks are ripping, and former LNP federal resources minister Keith Pitt has added three mines to his investment properties.
- Mark Di Stefano
Fast cars, pricey digs: the luxurious (rented) life of Jon Adgemis
As he tries to sort out his creditors, the former KPMG dealmaker still gives his address as one of Point Piper’s more luxurious piles.
- Primrose Riordan
Woolworths’ trashed reputation will cost Banducci
Woolworths has gone from the 7th most reputable corporate in Australia to the 42nd, on figures that feed into its management scorecard.
- Myriam Robin
Morgans joins the Guzman y Gomez hallucination
New coverage from the Brisbane firm puts out a bull case of an imagined reality.
- Mark Di Stefano
What’s Peter Dutton got against David Crowe?
Midwinter Ball speeches are meant to be roasts, and we’d never suggest journalists are off-limits. But Dutton’s dig at Crowe is starting to form a pattern.
- Myriam Robin and Mark Di Stefano
Bendigo Bank’s David Foster resides on terra firma
The man will plot with his CEO to have casino regulators sued. But hold out on putting Aboriginal ownership front and centre? Rubbish.
- Myriam Robin
How PwC conjured a FIRB crackdown
PwC continues to answer the bare minimum, opening doors to meaning and revelation.
- Myriam Robin and Mark Di Stefano
Perpetual agitator Rodney Forrest drips with false modesty
Hot Rod’s weird bid for a seat on Perpetual’s board follows a banner first year for his one-person family office.
- Mark Di Stefano
Path to Cats presidency goes through Boston Consulting Group
Critics have labelled Geelong a “boys’ club”. But the board of the Geelong Football Club has tended to draw from an even narrower pool.
- Myriam Robin
The deep, deep cynicism of the new anti-Greens pitch
Campaign material from right-wing group Advance tries to reframe the Greens in the mind of the mainstream voter.
- Mark Di Stefano
PEXA’s well-connected lobbyist can’t hurt
The change of government did wonders for Morris Iemma’s lobbying business, and property transfer monopoly PEXA is one of those hoping to take advantage.
- Myriam Robin
PwC still paying for bungled tax leaks response
PwC is now paying the price for forcibly ushering several partners out the door.
- Max Mason
June
PwC’s agent Kevin Burrowes revealed as a $4m man
The revelation PwC Australia’s CEO is also paid by PwC International adds further texture to the firm’s intransigence with the Senate.
- Myriam Robin and Mark Di Stefano
Newington College chairman clocks up 17 years (and counting)
There is nothing so compelling as private school politics.
- Updated
- Myriam Robin
