July 2023
High-flyers at Lord’s watch Lyon’s wobbly stand
If Australia’s leaders watch sport for something to inspire, they got what they came for at the second Ashes Test in London.
February 2023
Numbers always lie at Tabcorp, Domino’s, Adore Beauty
There’s no time like earnings season for the crystallisation of broken promises.
Paula Dwyer, Simon McKeon headline governance summit
What could be a more perfect venue for this professional development opportunity than a renowned echo chamber?
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.
September 2022
Mike Cannon-Brookes’ all-star cast for AGL
AGL will next week enter its fifth month carrying a lame duck chairman and chief executive.
Paula Dwyer to be next chairman of AGL
Having been consulted, AGL’s largest shareholder Mike Cannon-Brookes is reportedly unhappy with the choice.
September 2020
The Tabcorp school of shareholder management
If shareholders vote down an LTI grant to its outgoing chief, Tabcorp will just pay him in cash.
July 2020
Paula Dwyer used Tabcorp shares as collateral
In May, when Tabcorp updated its trading policy to prohibit directors taking out margin loans, the chairman was two months clear.
Investors pushed for change ahead of Tabcorp retirements
Unhappy investors wrote to Tabcorp's board just weeks before Thursday's announcements of the retirement of chairman Paula Dwyer and CEO David Attenborough.
New Tabcorp bosses can bet on demerger debate
Paula Dwyer and David Attenborough struck a brilliant deal to grab Tatts Group's lotteries business. But the division's success has created a new challenge.
Wylie backs new Tabcorp chair to find CEO
Tabcorp chief executive David Attenborough will leave the lotteries and wagering giant next year, following chairman Paula Dwyer into retirement.
March 2020
Paula Dwyer's mystery share sale puzzles investors
What on earth could have induced the Tabcorp chairman to offload at what appears to be the bottom?
February 2020
Is it time for a changing of the guard at ANZ?
ANZ chairman David Gonski, who marks his sixth year in the role this month, may step down sometime this year.
November 2019
Bizoids and politicians race for cover in soaked Birdcage
As the rain poured down on a quieter-than-usual Birdcage enclosure on Derby Day, the real action was indoors.
October 2019
Paula Dwyer safe despite big Tabcorp protest vote
Tabcorp chairman Paula Dwyer faced a protest vote at the company's annual meeting.
Big names in AGM crosshairs this week
Tabcorp's Paula Dwyer, Crown's Helen Coonan and Harold Mitchell, and Qantas' Todd Sampson face personal protest votes as part of the recent trend of targeting individual directors.
Pitchforks for Paula Dwyer at Tabcorp AGM
After 14 years, Dwyer wants another two, and ironically, her board’s abysmal succession planning is her very selling point.
August 2019
Lotteries not Tabcorp's only pressure point
After a strike against the Tabcorp's pay report last year, investors are likely to get a good hearing on their issues this time around.
Tabcorp under pressure to spin-off lotteries
Splitting out Tabcorp's lotteries business two years after is merger with Tatts Group is a concept gaining traction as wagering expectations wane.
May 2019
How the $4b Healthscope deal rewrote the takeover playbook
The year-long process rewrote the rules for M&A, private equity and super funds, but apart from advisers who took home $190m in fees many are still asking who was the clear winner.