This Month
The Year of Brilliant Jerks: Rear Window’s year in review
Trump, Ellison, White, Adgemis, Gupta and that Rinehart portrait. For Rear Window, the end of shame and pretense added up to a ripping year of stories.
- Opinion
- Rear Window
Qantas says goodbye to Richard Goyder
The former chairman was toasted by his board, exiting with free flights and a bruised reputation.
- Opinion
- Rear Window
Peter V’landys bogged down in a multibillion-dollar property play
The influential CEO of Racing NSW is staring down allegations aired confidentially by purported whistleblowers to a parliamentary inquiry.
The NRL goes down a fourth CFO in four years
The rugby league keeps chewing up and spitting out finance chiefs.
MinRes chairman’s private equity firm scores big cash gift
James McClements’ Resource Capital Funds was given a $116 million handout from Australia’s “green bank”.
HSF in damage control after M&A partner’s ‘deeply offensive’ tweet
Herbert Smith Freehills has started an internal investigation after a tweet directed at Jeremy Leibler.
UBS, Citi, ANZ and CBA navigate fraught Christmas parties
The investment bankers of Sydney held their year-end dos against a backdrop of complex contextual matters.
Boris Johnson’s mispriced Australian tour fizzles out
The former UK prime minister is no longer hot property on the corporate speaking circuit.
A mystery bidder, Gina Rinehart and Brisbane’s missing public artwork
The Hopoate Fingers is Brisbane’s most beloved public artwork. Will it fall into moneyed hands?
Rupert Murdoch makes surprise Australian homecoming
The “retired” media mogul has made his first trip Down Under in many years.
Trophies and sequins as Australia’s business leaders gonged
A $70,000 Rolex and a sequined jacket show life is sweet for the victors, though the path isn’t always smooth.
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MinRes asks for gag order on former executive to be lifted
The request, agreed to by the Federal Court, means the company’s board can obtain its own advice and regulators can access previously confidential documents.
MinRes senior lawyers reach for the lifeboat
A second lawyer has left MinRes to help the company’s board within a board investigate Chris Ellison’s misdeeds.
Shameless end to a very Kerry Stokes political coup
The media proprietor’s employee Basil Zempilas still insists he knew nothing of his campaign manager’s polling that almost rolled the WA Liberal leader.
Stephen Conroy goes spluttering and unhinged against the BCA
The former Labor senator went troppo at the Business Council, whose members include his own lobby clients.
Barrenjoey’s bankers are all about founder mode
Founder worship is rarely seen in investment banking. Except at Australia’s favourite finance start-up.
Richard White’s mystery $1b exposure
The former WiseTech CEO did a deal to buy the shares of co-founder Maree Isaacs. It leaves more questions than answers.
November
Peter Costello’s journalist son back in the spotlight
A Current Affair’s Seb Costello had an ugly interaction with a person involved with Oak Capital this week.
Ex-billionaire Nathan Tinkler goes free-riding in Las Vegas
The country’s former youngest billionaire scored tickets to the Las Vegas Grand Prix from the current youngest billionaire.
Dealmaker David Di Pilla’s other REIT is underwater
The capital markets darling’s DigiCo REIT will be the biggest IPO in years. His other REIT is floundering.