September 2024
Cannon-Brookes’ Grok fails to back AGL board on exec pay
The decision by Mike Cannon-Brookes’ private company to abstain on the remuneration vote signals tensions over emissions reduction plans are unresolved.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
April 2024
Why AGL chairman Patricia McKenzie couldn’t get a job in a law firm
She almost didn’t take up legal studies in the first place, but didn’t expect to find job hunting so difficult.
- Sally Patten
July 2023
- Exclusive
- BOSS
Boards pull back on investment amid slowing economy
BOSS this week met with boardroom heavyweights from some of our largest companies around the country who warned the economy is in “very mixed” shape.
- Patrick Durkin and Anthony Macdonald
June 2023
- Opinion
- The AFR View
ESG reality bites on power bills, boards and the Voice
When polarisation is a problem in many Western democracies, Australian business encouraging respect for political diversity and disagreeing civilly is a worthy ESG outcome in itself.
- The AFR View
PwC can regain public ‘trust and confidence’: ASIC chairman
AGL Energy chairwoman Patricia McKenzie also told the ESG Summit that she had no plans to stop using the firm over the tax leaks scandal.
- Hannah Wootton
AGL chairman says ‘slightly unusual’ board is working well
The four directors nominated to the AGL board by billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes are working constructively with the rest of the board, says Patricia McKenzie
- Peter Ker
February 2023
Paula Dwyer, conspiracy theorist
The woman who almost became AGL Energy chairman has done what almost every businessperson in her position cannot resist doing: publicly raking over the ashes of her misadventure.
- Joe Aston
December 2022
Only 10pc of major ASX companies led by a female chairman
Lack of progress by women to the chairman role has been blamed on the dearth of female chief executives.
- Sally Patten
November 2022
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
AGL’s mammoth task has only just begun
The energy giant needs to find two things: a new chief executive, and $20 billion in capital to pay for achieving net-zero emissions.
- Updated
- Tony Boyd
- Exclusive
- Activist shareholders
Investors back Grok directors for ‘entrenched’ AGL board
HESTA, Merlon Capital Partners and BetaShares are all supporting at least two of Grok’s picks for directors at AGL Energy.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
- Exclusive
- Activist shareholders
Mike Cannon-Brookes closes in on victory in AGL board tussle
Support from industry superannuation funds looks set to ensure the software billionaire gets most of his director picks onto the AGL board.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith, Patrick Durkin and Mark Ludlow
October 2022
Proxy adviser sides with Grok in AGL board battle
CGI Glass Lewis says shareholders should support Kerry Schott and Christine Holman as directors, but not John Pollaers.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith