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Megan Clark

May

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It goes to Rio: Monash Uni replaces Simon McKeon with Megan Clark

Australia’s largest university has replaced its chancellor, an ex-Rio Tinto director, with … an ex-Rio Tinto director. What are the odds?

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  • Myriam Robin

March 2022

Rio Tinto board gets off scot-free

Australia’s proxy firms have reverted to their default behaviour: tickling the tummies of Rio Tinto’s lousy directors.

  • Joe Aston

February 2022

Rio Tinto’s board has learnt nothing

In the Rio boardroom, any sense of collective shame has clearly passed.

  • Joe Aston
Michaelia Cash

Michaelia Cash missed the memo on Rio Tinto

With impeccable comic timing, the Morrison government has tapped Rio Tinto’s former workplace safety boss.

  • Joe Aston

December 2021

 Josh Frydenberg.

Heads did roll: Rear Window’s 2021 in review

A year that started in court has had plenty of victims, some unlikely saviours, and the greatest boondoggle ever.

  • Joe Aston
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October 2021

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Wrongful termination suit coming for Rio Tinto

Rio Tinto is going to pay Alan Davies a mountain of cash for wrongful termination.

  • Joe Aston

September 2021

Incoming Crown Resorts chairman Ziggy Switkowski.

Cancel culture forgot the Monash chancellor

For tedious sanctimony, does it get any worse than university academics?

  • Joe Aston

July 2021

Outgoing Rio Tinto chairman Simon Thompson at the company’s AGM in Perth on May 6.

Rio Tinto’s malaise years in the making

Rio Tinto will ship less iron ore in 2021 than it did in 2016.

  • Joe Aston

May 2021

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Shadow of Juukan hangs over Rio AGM as investors lob protest vote

More than 60pc of investors voted against the company’s remuneration report over the lucrative exit packages given to JS Jacques in the wake of the Juukan Gorge scandal.

  • Peter Ker and Brad Thompson

March 2021

Rio Tinto director Megan Clark has lost the proxy advisers.

ISS against Rio director Megan Clark

The global proxy adviser has recommended Rio Tinto shareholders vote against the re-election of director Megan Clark.

  • Joe Aston
“Personal shame”: Rio Tinto director Megan Clark.

The shame of Rio Tinto director Megan Clark

She invokes her shame now only to save her own job – one that richly deserves to be lost.

  • Joe Aston
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Roy Woodall’s mining talent was nation’s greatest resource

Some of the Australian mining industry’s biggest names have paid tribute to one of the nation’s most successful geologists.

  • Peter Ker

January 2021

Rob Whitfield is a director at Commonwealth Bank, GPT and Transurban.

High-profile exits bring new breed of directors to fore

Rob Whitfield and Sam Mostyn have been named Australia’s most powerful and influential directors respectively following the exit of Lindsay Maxsted, David Gonski and David Murray from top roles.

  • Patrick Durkin

September 2020

Simon McKeon parlayed his inertia throughout the Juukan Gorge crisis into a promotion and a pay rise.

Simon McKeon is Rio Tinto's weakest link

McKeon has managed to parlay his monstrous inertia throughout the Juukan Gorge crisis into a promotion and a £45,000 pay rise.

  • Joe Aston
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg wants an Australian CEO at Rio Tinto.

Frydenberg tells Rio Tinto to hire Australian CEO

The Morrison government wants and expects an Australian chief executive and majority Australian board. Will the London headquarters listen?

  • Jennifer Hewett
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Golden parachutes to haunt Rio Tinto board

Thankfully, large Rio Tinto shareholders are privately acknowledging that Thompson is finished.

  • Joe Aston
Rio Tinto CEO Jean-Sebastien Jacques, "a charlatan from the cosmetics industry".

Rio Tinto misleads parliamentary inquiry

Rio Tinto's contempt for the Australian Parliament is demonstrable.

  • Joe Aston
Former public servant Michael L'Estrange conducted a review the Juukan Gorge disaster for the Rio Tinto board.

Rio Tinto directors briefing against L'Estrange

How laughable that Rio Tinto chairman Simon Thompson considered the Juukan Gorge matter resolved.

  • Joe Aston

August 2020

Simon Thompson's board has chosen merely to dock the bonuses of three executives, including CEO JS Jacques, over the destruction of Juukan Gorge.

Rio Tinto board squibs Juukan Gorge accountability

Rio Tinto's decision is the most unconscionable slap in the face to the Aboriginal traditional owners.

  • Joe Aston

June 2020

Rio Tinto chairman Simon Thompson (right), with chief executive Jean-Sebastien Jacques.

Rio board closing in on JS Jacques

Rio has spent a month provoking the world’s escalating abhorrence with iterative, disingenuous, pedantic and qualified apologies.

  • Joe Aston

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