May
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?
- Updated
- 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 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
- Opinion
- Rear Window
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
October 2021
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
Cancel culture forgot the Monash chancellor
For tedious sanctimony, does it get any worse than university academics?
- Joe Aston
July 2021
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
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
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
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
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
- Exclusive
- Board shake-up
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 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
- Exclusive
- Iron ore
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
Golden parachutes to haunt Rio Tinto board
Thankfully, large Rio Tinto shareholders are privately acknowledging that Thompson is finished.
- Joe Aston
Rio Tinto misleads parliamentary inquiry
Rio Tinto's contempt for the Australian Parliament is demonstrable.
- Joe Aston
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
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 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