April 2024
Super funds nominating directors to boards ‘unwise’
Super funds that nominate a director to a company board may fail to change the organisation’s strategy and could lose flexibility to manage their investment, leading chairmen warn.
- Sally Patten
October 2023
ASIC gives Graham Bradley a black eye
The holder of one of Australia’s best CVs is chairing a company accused by the corporate watchdog of not following accounting standards.
- Myriam Robin
March 2023
Big United Malt investor cool on $2b takeover offer
European suitor Malteries Soufflet might need to sweeten its takeover offer to win control of United Malt, according to at least one big investor.
- Brad Thompson
February 2023
More brilliant ideas from Graham Bradley
The veteran company director can almost always save the day with an earnest pronouncement.
- Joe Aston
Why business is shying away from campaigning for the Voice
High-profile directors warn the referendum that is designed to give Indigenous people a voice to parliament is complex and no one knows what it will look like.
- Sally Patten and Patrick Durkin
Boards sound alarm on Labor spending, intervention
Leading directors caution against unfettered government spending and unsustainable debt.
- Patrick Durkin and Sally Patten
October 2022
United Malt boss calls time after barley blues
United Malt chief executive Mark Palmquist to part ways two-and-a half years after he jumped ship from GrainCorp to lead the global malting spinoff which has since struggled.
- Brad Thompson
February 2022
EnergyAustralia plunges to full-year loss
Parent company CLP Group has warned of “volatile and uncertain” conditions facing EnergyAustralia and the rest of the electricity and gas supply sector.
- Updated
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
July 2021
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Neobank Volt on the charge for $30b of mortgages
The challenger bank is poised to roll out its banking-as-a-service strategy, which chairman Graham Bradley says can help it capture 1.5 per cent of the home loan market.
- Tony Boyd
November 2020
United Malt fears for beer if lockdowns return
The global malt supplier is worried about a second and third wave of COVID-19 after beer sales take a hit.
- Brad Thompson
Business blueprint for healing 'bungled' China relationship
Alarmed by trade sanctions and China turning its back on a multibillion-dollar investment opportunity in LNG, Australian business leaders want the Morrison government to find a way to stop the bleeding.
- Updated
- Brad Thompson, Michael Smith and Angela Macdonald-Smith
August 2020
- Opinion
- Governance
David Murray lacks 2020 board vision
The former AMP chairman did not accept the ESG demands that are now essential to shareholder value.
- Brynn O'Brien
Time is up for boards on treatment of sexual harassment
Investor attitudes to the standards companies use to deal with sexual harassment have changed significantly over the past five years.
- Sally Patten
May 2020
United Malt raises $140m as beer sales go flat
GrainCorp's demerged malt business rattles the tin as COVID-19 restrictions hit beer sales.
- Updated
- Brad Thompson
April 2020
- Opinion
- Coronavirus pandemic
Avoiding dead ends on the economic road out
Agreeing on the best exit route from the economic crisis is going to be even more difficult than the road out of the health crisis.
- Jennifer Hewett
- Exclusive
- Coronavirus pandemic
Business push to reopen in May
There is growing sense the national cabinet has contained the virus and that Australia can carefully and gradually begin to reopen while not endangering public health.
- Patrick Durkin, John Kehoe and James Thomson
March 2020
Big business welcomes wage relief
"We must safeguard as many jobs as we can to prevent long periods of joblessness and poverty," BCA chief executive Jennifer Westacott said.
- Lucas Baird, Patrick Durkin and Liam Walsh
Health, retail CEOs urge hard shutdown.
Healthcare and retail bosses are urging a hard economic shutdown while directors of big banking, aviation and energy companies back the cautious approach.
- Lucas Baird, Liam Walsh and Patrick Durkin
December 2019
Hayne 'being alarmist' on climate risk: Bradley
The multi-board chairman says directors must act only on material and foreseeable dangers.
- Patrick Durkin and Michael Pelly
October 2019
What meeting minutes should and shouldn’t look like
The royal commission helped put the spotlight on what should and shouldn't be in board minutes.
- James Thomson