Today
New Deloitte CEO does a night of long knives on consulting partners
The usually revered consulting division has been quietly decimated by sackings.
Ex-Rio Indigenous affairs boss’ next job blows up
Corporate affairs consultancy Brad Haynes is finding it as difficult to keep staff as it is to find Australian clients, it seems.
Yesterday
All the bankers at Melbourne’s sodden grand prix
From Luke Sayers to Mike Cannon-Brookes to Matt Comyn, Australia’s biggest business names braved the Melbourne weather on Sunday.
This Month
Adamantem Capital doubles down on questionable carbon offsets
Others may be examining the veracity of carbon farming methods, but these private equity vultures have no doubts.
Farquhar lives his lycra dream as Cannon-Brookes faces bumpy ride
The Atlassian co-founder has gone for a different type of racing to the Grand Prix.
Catalano’s property drama spills into Byron Bay altercation
Police were called to the altercation outside Raes Hotel on Wategos Beach.
Alex Waislitz joins billionaires hosting dinners for Dutton
The Melbourne investor is the latest deep-pocketed businessman to raise money for the opposition leader.
Departing Virgin CEO Jayne Hrdlicka loses the Hawaii option
A new deal with Qantas is wiping Virgin’s frequent flyer deals to Hawaii. Noosa probably never looked so good to Hrdlicka.
McKinsey solves the gender pay gap this International Women’s Day
Once women have earned their own equality, Elizabeth Arden will also help them celebrate with free lipstick applications.
Who are the super directors facing APRA’s tenure limit?
There will scarcely be a board of a major industry super fund untouched if the prudential regulator comes after these lucrative patronages.
Sayers Group the latest beneficiary in Newington co-ed tussle
The Sydney boys school may be winning its battle to admit girls by 2026, but it’s clocked up some expenses doing so.
Crisis PR firm Sodali lurches into its own crisis
CEO whisperer Ross Thornton quit in February, and now local chief executive Christian Sealey has departed. What crisis firm will advise TPG on what to do next?
Coalition’s Jane Hume was once a flexible work cheerleader
It’s not even three years since the senator was once citing flexible work as core to women’s economic security.
If only the WGEA gender agency matched its ideals with action
Have an industry-beating gender pay gap or male-heavy leadership team? WGEA might have some work for you.
Twiggy takes rivalry with Rinehart to the penthouse
The duo’s Sydney digs are so close they would be able to spot each other across the Sydney skyline.
Ben Roberts-Smith gets another (positive) chapter written
Former AFR correspondent and new Nightly writer Aaron Patrick is behind the latest move to rebuild BRS’ reputation.
‘What email?’: Inside Slater and Gordon’s workplace meltdown
An all-staff email featuring the pay details of more than 900 staff has ricocheted around a law firm already torn between its private equity owner and trade union heritage.
February
Twiggy’s Time Magazine puff piece: a hat-trick of hot air howlers
You wouldn’t know from the puff piece TIME magazine ran on Andrew Forrest that the green hydrogen dream suffered a hat-trick of setbacks last week.
Ambulance chasers circle Slater and Gordon over email leak
Hopefully the firm has learnt something about being on the other side in its long history of fighting similar matters on behalf of workers.