This Month
The 30-year-old law threatening Sydney’s most popular flights
Sydney Airport is intensifying calls for the government to change legislation around Sydney’s curfew as important flights risk running afoul of a legal loophole.
- Ayesha de Kretser
October 2024
Air travellers should reap rewards from Sydney Airport revamp
The Labor government will finally introduce changes to how Sydney Airport operates on Wednesday.
- Ayesha de Kretser
September 2024
Airlines and Melbourne Airport headed for runway funding feud
Vanessa Hudson says Melbourne Airport needs to wait until “the demand is there” before building a third runway and charging airlines and their passengers to pay for it.
- Jenny Wiggins and Ayesha de Kretser
August 2024
Labor set to legislate on aviation this year
Long-awaited changes at Sydney Airport finally look to be closer, as Transport Minister Catherine King handed down a timeline on Harris review implementation.
- Tom McIlroy and Ayesha de Kretser
October 2023
New Transurban boss Michelle Jablko wants to reward drivers
The CEO plans to offer incentives such as car hire and car wash discounts for users of the toll road group’s Linkt accounts to encourage motorists to keep paying for its roads.
- Jenny Wiggins
September 2023
- Updated
- Competition
ACCC’s EastLink decision could crimp Transurban toll road growth
The company’s incoming chief executive faces a more difficult task expanding the tollroad group after the competition regulator blocked its plans in Melbourne,
- Updated
- Jenny Wiggins
August 2023
New Transurban CEO Michelle Jablko will be ‘smart and disciplined’
Outgoing Transurban chief executive Scott Charlton says there will be no loss of momentum when he leaves the $43 billion toll road group in October.
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- Jenny Wiggins
May 2023
Renewable energy boom stealing money from roads, says Transurban CEO
Transurban will focus on expanding existing toll roads rather than building new infrastructure due to the surge in renewable energy projects, CEO Scott Charlton says.
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- Jenny Wiggins
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
WestConnex delivery not enough for Transurban top job
Distribution growth is the No.1 matter for whoever replaces Scott Charlton in the CEO’s seat, in a race that is narrowing.
- Updated
- Anthony Macdonald
April 2023
Trips on Melbourne’s toll roads remain below pre-pandemic levels
Transurban reported a 13 per cent rise in group average daily traffic flows, or around 2.4 million trips, compared to the same period last year.
- Jenny Wiggins
February 2023
Wanted: CEOs who can cut costs but keep people
Executives with strong risk management and cost-cutting skills as well as excellent communication are being sought after as the Australian economy slows down, making businesses and staff trickier to manage.
- Jenny Wiggins
Transurban’s Scott Charlton, departing hero
The King’s Birthday is still four months away – quick, someone get the man an Order of Australia!
- Joe Aston
‘Now is a good time’: Transurban CEO Scott Charlton to retire
The infrastructure company has hired Russell Reynolds to do a global search for a successor for when the outgoing boss’s 11-year tenure ends in December.
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- Jenny Wiggins
- Analysis
- Earnings season
Transurban CEO’s exit leaves big shoes to fill
The infrastructure company had six tolled roads when Scott Charlton joined in 2012: it now has 22 from buying as well as building.
- Jenny Wiggins
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Charlton wants to stay in C-suite after stellar Transurban stint
Scott Charlton has taken the toll road giant’s market value from $7 billion to $43 billion during his 11-year tenure. But he’s not done with the C-suite yet.
- James Thomson
October 2022
Transurban ‘confident’ on future traffic, says CEO Scott Charlton
Australia is “better placed” than many countries to withstand a slowdown in economic growth, says Transurban’s boss who forecast that traffic on the company’s toll roads would keep going up.
- Jenny Wiggins
August 2022
Transurban bell tolls for Lindsay Maxsted
It’s been an interminable six years since Maxsted told Transurban’s 2016 annual meeting he’d look to step down before 2019.
- Joe Aston
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Why these leadership duos outperformed
Changing of the chairs at the top of three top-performing companies is an opportunity to examine why some boards and CEOs work extremely well.
- Tony Boyd
Transurban’s new chairman: ‘I take nothing for granted’
Future Transurban chairman Craig Drummond says he will be across the “detail” when he succeeds Lindsay Maxsted in October.
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- Jenny Wiggins
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
This profit result reveals the new world of flexible work
Transurban’s average daily traffic is back above pre-pandemic levels. But the way cities and their inhabitants are working is very different.
- James Thomson