Dr Elaine Stead said she felt “helpless” when she was being assailed by journalist Joe Aston over her performance as managing director of venture capital at Blue Sky Alternative Investments.
In two articles published in 2019, Aston – in the Rear Window column that runs on the back page of the The Australian Financial Review – said Stead was “another feminist cretin” and a “venture capital pyromaniac” who “set fire to people’s money”.
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Michael Pelly is the legal editor, based in our Sydney newsroom. He has been a senior adviser to federal and state attorneys-general and written two books, one a biography of former High Court Chief Justice Murray Gleeson. Email Michael at michael.pelly@afr.com
