December 2024
- 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.
- Mark Di Stefano
October 2024
- Exclusive
- Governance
The incredible financial value of a Qantas board seat
The lavish and fudged flight perks of the airline’s executives are revealed in this extract from Joe Aston’s “The Chairman’s Lounge”.
- Joe Aston
- Exclusive
- Governance
The zombie chairman: How Goyder let Joyce trash Qantas’ reputation
An exclusive extract from Joe Aston’s book The Chairman’s Lounge tells the inside story of how Richard Goyder and his board allowed Alan Joyce to fly Qantas into a reputational disaster.
- Joe Aston
Qantas’ Todd Sampson got a proxy pardon. Others aren’t so lucky
ISS has provided multiple perplexingly inconsistent arguments for how to deal with the Qantas board’s culpability in the recent airline’s morality bypass.
- Myriam Robin
April 2024
Richard Goyder faces down a rabble of proxies
Should Goyder’s Qantas failures be a mark against him at Woodside? Depends who you ask.
- Mark Di Stefano
March 2024
Thodey to replace Hutchinson as Sydney University chancellor
With Sydney Uni deriving about half its revenue from foreign students, incoming chancellor David Thodey welcomes “a conversation” about effect on the broader community.
- Julie Hare
February 2024
Qantas board search nears conclusion, leaving investors abuzz
Three directors are leaving the airline this year; two this month. A long list of potential candidates is taking shape, including several high-profile figures.
- Ayesha de Kretser
October 2023
Hamish McLennan and a rugby party in Paris
The Rugby Australia chief was among executives and sponsors at a “cocktail party” in Paris.
- Mark Di Stefano
Qantas brand guru Todd Sampson given ISS reprieve
This is why proxy advisers send everyone batty. And if Qantas’ in-house sentiment guru doesn’t deserve to walk the plank, who does?
- Myriam Robin
September 2023
Richard Goyder’s last supper
Six weeks before the company’s AGM, members of the Qantas board are in more shit than a sewage farm duck.
- Updated
- Joe Aston
August 2023
Alan Joyce’s farewell tour descends into omnishambles
Today, Qantas well and truly entered Rio Tinto territory.
- Joe Aston
March 2023
The great Qantas flight credit racket
Qantas is riding the fine line between appearing to reunite people with their money and making it maximally difficult for that to occur.
- Joe Aston
February 2023
Stop bashing universities over international students: chancellor
University of Technology Sydney chancellor Catherine Livingstone says governments and industry should plan to help universities in downturns such as that created by the pandemic.
- Sally Patten
These women made it in business. Now they’re going back to school
BOSS talks to seven female business leaders helping to reshape tertiary education as chancellors of some of the country’s top universities.
- Sally Patten
June 2021
Senior directors call for more companies to match staff donations
High-flyers Jillian Broadbent, Belinda Hutchinson and David Gonski say firms should be supporting their workers.
- James Eyers
Has De Ferrari sold Sydney home for twice what he paid?
The departing AMP boss sold the mansion in Sydney’s Woolahra for about $13 million after buying it for $7.5 million a year ago.
- Lucy Macken
October 2020
Sydney Uni chancellor urges sector to 'speak up'
The chancellor of the University of Sydney, businesswoman Belinda Hutchinson, has urged the sector to take action as the Jobs-ready Graduates bill hangs in the balance.
- Ronald Mizen, Robert Bolton and Tom McIlroy
June 2020
Belinda Hutchinson receives highest level of Order of Australia
Belinda Hutchinson, Naomi Milgrom and Tony Abbott will be appointed Companions of the Order of Australia as part of the 2020 Queen's Birthday Honours list.
- Sally Patten
March 2020
- Analysis
- Public service
Can the Australian public service reform itself?
David Thodey laid out a detailed generational plan to reform the federal public service. Things have not started well. Can the public service reform itself?
- Tom Burton