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.