Tributes have poured in for Sir Rod Carnegie, a former head of the CRA mining company and president of the Business Council, who died peacefully in Melbourne on Sunday. He was 91.
Sir Rod had a major influence over the direction of Australian mining, business and national economic policy in the ’80s, was a driving force behind the formation of the Business Council of Australia, and a leading business speaker at Bob Hawke’s landmark 1983 economic summit.
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Andrew Clark is a former editor of The Sun-Herald and Australian Business. He was a correspondent in Europe and North America, a political correspondent in Canberra and has been a journalist for more than 55 years. Email Andrew at aclark@afr.com.au
