The corporate watchdog has cleared Mineral Resources founder Chris Ellison and board members over a series of scandals that rocked the miner in late 2024 and shaved billions of dollars off its market value.
Daniel Newell
Woodside’s boss has shrugged off reports the director did not fully disclose his involvement in an activist campaign against Northern Star Resources, as the energy giant considers elevating him to chairman.
Rebecca Le May
Fortescue has suspended an executive at the centre of a sexual harassment investigation, days after defending its decision not to do so.
Adrian Rauso
Bosses are cycling through Australia’s biggest companies 40 per cent faster, but what gets them fired has changed even more dramatically, with non-financial failures now behind most sackings.
Ryan Johnson
Ben Wyatt believes Australia’s resources sector needs to get better at communicating its worth to society and that hostility towards politicians has veered into ‘dangerous territory’.
The activist investor agitating for change at Northern Star has flung mud back at the gold miner’s board.
Telstra has lifted profit and shareholder returns by charging mobile customers more but investors marked the stock down after signs some higher-paying customers are drifting away.
Telstra boss Vicki Brady has copped a more than $600,000 penalty for an outage in July that left up to 25 million people without phone coverage.
Michael Chaney chastised Northern Star’s noisy activist investor after shunning the US hedge fund’s board wish-list by appointing former Wesfarmers executive and BHP director Terry Bowen.
Adrian Rauso and Daniel Newell
Mark Cutifani and former Arcadium Lithium boss Paul Graves are among a list of six willing potential directors proposed by Elliott to help right the gold miner.
Sean Smith
Women are exerting more influence in the State’s boardrooms than ever before
His tenures on the boards of Woodside and global miner Rio Tinto have given the former WA Treasurer a lick of big company experience to take on one of the country’s toughest and most prominent chair roles.
Australia’s ASX200 bosses took home bigger bonuses last year but were still out-earned by a growing number of US-based chief executives who pocketed as much as $48 million in pay.
Tony O’Neill has departed to ‘remove unnecessary distraction’ following concerns among some shareholders over his business relationship with another Woodside director.
The gas producer says chief financial officer and company secretary Tim Cooper, who joined Strike barely a year ago, will depart the group at the end of September.
The KPMG disaster should be filed as a case study under Smart People Doing Dumb Things.
WiseTech has insisted the tech giant is unaware of any Australian Federal Police investigation into its founder and executive chairman, Richard White.
The real-life Succession drama unfolding at Linfox has taken a major twist, with all three sons of billionaire founder Lindsay Fox seemingly facing replacement at the helm of key divisions.
US-based Elliott Investment Management continues its attack on beleaguered Super Pit owner Northern Star Resources, saying its board ‘doesn’t understand’ how much shareholder trust has been lost.
Former WA treasurer Ben Wyatt — who this week was named an officer of the Order of Australia — has splashed out more than $50,000 to up his stake in Rio Tinto.
Being just the second chair who hasn’t worked at Wesfarmers makes the appointment of Ken MacKenzie rare enough to question whether he will stick to the succession script when it comes to the next CEO.
BP's sacked chairman Albert Manifold has pushed back against what he described as a "false narrative" surrounding his removal from the British oil major.
Shadia Nasralla
One of Andrew Forrest’s closest allies has quit the board of his mining empire, just weeks after selling off a $5.5 million stake in the company.
In a win for the corporate watchdog, a regional airline's former executive chair has admitted a market publication he signed off on misled the investors.
Adrian Black
