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Eddie McGuire

November

Eddie McGuire.

Eddie McGuire to Seven? You wouldn’t believe it

In six months in the role, Seven news and current affairs boss Anthony De Ceglie has cut a swathe through that organisation’s sacred cows.

  • Myriam Robin

April

Sam Mostyn, pictured in 2009, when she was an executive at insurer IAG.

Male mentors drove Mostyn’s career, but she influenced them too

The next governor-general is best known as an advocate for professional women. She also had influential male mentors.

  • Aaron Patrick

February

Harold Mitchell in his Melbourne apartment in 2020.

Ad man Harold Mitchell was living large to the end

Harold Mitchell helped reinvent how advertising is bought and sold in Australia. Giants of Australian industry shared their thoughts after his surprise passing.

  • Sam Buckingham-Jones

April 2023

Nine chairman Peter Costello.

Jeff Browne, media executives look at Nine Entertainment board vacancy

Recruiters had been instructed to search for candidates with media and content backgrounds after the departure of ex-Fairfax Media chairman Nick Falloon.

  • Mark Di Stefano
Andrew Fox with friend and golfer Greg Norman.

Bizoids bust out the tartan at court of Fox

The trucking tycoon turned 86 on Wednesday, and marked the day as extravagantly as any self-respecting billionaire could be expected to.

  • Myriam Robin
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October 2022

The plan to fix craft brewing’s dirty little secret

Jon Seltin reckons climate change is already changing the taste of beer, and amid a craft brewing boom he’s determined not to add to the problem.

  • Peter Ker and Lap Phan

July 2022

MRC chairman Peter Le Grand is retiring, or not retiring. Either one.

Pistols at ten paces at Melbourne Racing Club

Victorian racing community chins are wagging over a recent incident at the Caulfield Racecourse.

  • Michael Roddan

April 2022

Brick Lane Brewery CEO Paul Bowker says the quality of no alcohol beer has improved out of sight and is helping to drive huge growth in the segment.

Brick Lane boss tips big rise in no alcohol beer

NAB chief executive Ross McEwan is a top-five shareholder in the craft brewer, which aims to lift sales by 50 per cent next year to $60 million.

  • Simon Evans

March 2022

More Australians will be watching Shane Warne’s sate memorial than following the federal budget.

Warnie’s memorial service delivers a budget googly

The government is rethinking its budget strategy amid concerns the document will be overshadowed by Shane Warne’s memorial service.

  • Phillip Coorey

June 2021

Brick Lane Brewery CEO Paul Bowker: “We’ll more than double revenues and volumes.”

Craft brewer Brick Lane’s $50m expansion

The company’s investors include NAB CEO Ross McEwan, comedian Mick Molloy and ex Collingwood president Eddie McGuire.

  • Simon Evans

February 2021

In happier times:  Andrew Demetriou and Eddie McGuire at Derby Day in 2008.

With friends like Demetriou, no wonder Eddie’s cooked

No Crown scandal can keep Andrew Demetriou down.

  • Myriam Robin
Eddie McGuire had faced mounting pressure to resign from Collingwood.

‘Sorry’: Eddie McGuire resigns from Collingwood

The AFL club president has called it a day, effective immediately, giving way to pressure that has built since the release of a damning report into racism at the club.

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  • Max Mason
Eddie McGuire fronts the media over a damning report into racism at Collingwood.

A lifelong Collingwood fan’s note to Eddie: do better

Eddie McGuire’s attempt to spin a report into Collingwood Football Club’s history on racism has tarnished his legacy and hurt the club.  

  • James Thomson

June 2020

The WA government is planning to allow 60,000 people back at Optus Stadium from July 18.

WA plays hardball with the AFL

WA has upped the ante on the Australian Football League, throwing out the tantalising option of hosting football matches in front of a 60,000 capacity crowd within three weeks. 

  • Julie-anne Sprague and Liam Walsh

November 2019

Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest wants government action on scam ads.

Forrest urges government to treat tech giants as publishers

Companies such as Facebook and Google should be held to the advertising standards under which traditional forms of media trade.

  • Max Mason
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September 2019

Richmond President Peggy O'Neal and CEO Brendon Gale at Punt Road Oval are hungry for more success.

Richmond's message for corporate Australia

Corporate heavyweights and CEOs will descend on the MCG on Friday night for the AFL finals which have become as much business as sport.

  • Patrick Durkin

July 2019

Alan Jones: rendered inexplicably mute.

Alan Jones refused clips to Goodes doco

Andrew Bolt, Sam Newman, Steve Price and Eddie McGuire all had no issue.

  • Myriam Robin

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