MinRes sidesteps scrutiny despite Ellison’s mea culpa
Chris Ellison did not take any questions from the media or shareholders during the miner’s AGM, marking a change of tone from the usually brash billionaire.
On a cloudy day in an inner eastern suburb of Perth, one of the country’s most colourful mining personalities adopted a gloomy but defiant tone in his brief mea culpa to Mineral Resources shareholders. Not a single journalist was in the room to witness it or ask a question.
Related-party transactions, an offshore tax rort, personally enriching himself at the expense of the company; how would Chris Ellison, the man in the middle of the corporate governance storm, respond to critics?
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Mark Wembridge covers resource companies for The Australian Financial Review, based in Perth. He formerly worked for the Financial Times in London and Hong Kong. Connect with Mark on Twitter. Email Mark at mark.wembridge@nine.com.au
